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ARMENIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE WEBSITE SEES 1 MILLION MORE HITS IN 2013
By MassisPost
Updated: January 26, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC -- With the continuing expansion of the information on
the Armenian Genocide available on the Armenian National Institute
(ANI) website, a marked increase in the number of visitors was
registered this past year, jumping by one million hits, and growing
the site from two million to close to three million hits in 2013.
Public and scholarly interest is clearly registering with ever growing
utilization of ANI materials. Both in anticipation of heightened
worldwide interest as the centennial approaches in 2015 and as a result
of increasing Turkish openness on the subject of the Armenian Genocide,
ANI has been preparing major resources and making them available to
the public, to support educators, to encourage researchers, and to
assist Armenian community efforts.
In March 2013, ANI, along with, the Armenian Genocide Museum of
America (AGMA), and the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly),
issued a digital exhibit titled WITNESS TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
Photographs by the Perpetrators' German and Austro-Hungarian Allies.
The ten-poster set included an introductory page, a detailed timeline,
a color-coded map geographically matching the photographs with their
location, and seven pages displaying 34 captioned historic photographs
depicting the deportations, massacres, and concentration camps. Since
its release, over 75,000 copies have been downloaded. Additional
downloadable exhibits will be made available, and as with the 2013
digital and printable exhibit, they will be distributed free of charge.
As part of its ongoing program to promote the teaching of genocide
and human rights and the lessons of the Armenian Genocide, in early
2013 ANI announced the release by Routledge publishers of the fourth
edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, the
genocide and human rights studies textbook widely used in college and
high school courses. This new edition addresses examples of genocides
perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
The chapter on the Armenian Genocide, which has appeared since the
first edition of the publication, is authored by ANI Director Dr.
Rouben Adalian. More than 50,000 copies of the publication have been
sold over the years.
This publication was followed by the release of the online and print
versions of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
issued by Macmillan Reference, a major publisher of educational
materials, to which Dr. Adalian contributed an entry on the Armenian
Genocide. The article appears in a section dedicated to Genocide
and Crimes Against Humanity that includes entries, among others,
on the Assyrian Massacre, Bosnia, Cambodia, Japanese Occupation,
Mayan Genocide in Guatemala, Rwanda, and Sudan.
As part of its continuing service to educators and to coincide with
the release of Centuries of Genocide, ANI expanded its "Resource
Guide" and other sections of the "Education" component of the ANI
website. Dozens of resources were selected for their instructional
value and are listed for the benefit of students and teachers. ANI
also expanded the database it maintains on Armenian Genocide memorials.
ANI also introduced a new section to its website documenting the
extent of "Press Coverage" and discussion of the Armenian Genocide
over the course of the past decade. As part of this expansion, the
section documenting the growing trend of international affirmation
of the Armenian Genocide was also updated.
The "Affirmation" section of the website reflects municipal, state,
and federal level recognitions from around the world. With 174 official
documents posted supporting the record of affirmation by 43 of the
United States, another 50 posted official enactments attest to the
extent of international affirmation of the Armenian Genocide with
21 countries formally on record. To facilitate navigation of the
growing list of international recognitions, a summary page listing
the countries in alphabetical order is provided.
Continuing its services, ANI, in coordination with AGMA and the
Assembly, is preparing to issue by April 2014 a major new online
exhibit on the Armenian Genocide featuring extensive new photographic
and documentary evidence.
http://massispost.com/2014/01/armenian-national-institute-website-sees-1-million-more-hits-in-2013/
By MassisPost
Updated: January 26, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC -- With the continuing expansion of the information on
the Armenian Genocide available on the Armenian National Institute
(ANI) website, a marked increase in the number of visitors was
registered this past year, jumping by one million hits, and growing
the site from two million to close to three million hits in 2013.
Public and scholarly interest is clearly registering with ever growing
utilization of ANI materials. Both in anticipation of heightened
worldwide interest as the centennial approaches in 2015 and as a result
of increasing Turkish openness on the subject of the Armenian Genocide,
ANI has been preparing major resources and making them available to
the public, to support educators, to encourage researchers, and to
assist Armenian community efforts.
In March 2013, ANI, along with, the Armenian Genocide Museum of
America (AGMA), and the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly),
issued a digital exhibit titled WITNESS TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
Photographs by the Perpetrators' German and Austro-Hungarian Allies.
The ten-poster set included an introductory page, a detailed timeline,
a color-coded map geographically matching the photographs with their
location, and seven pages displaying 34 captioned historic photographs
depicting the deportations, massacres, and concentration camps. Since
its release, over 75,000 copies have been downloaded. Additional
downloadable exhibits will be made available, and as with the 2013
digital and printable exhibit, they will be distributed free of charge.
As part of its ongoing program to promote the teaching of genocide
and human rights and the lessons of the Armenian Genocide, in early
2013 ANI announced the release by Routledge publishers of the fourth
edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, the
genocide and human rights studies textbook widely used in college and
high school courses. This new edition addresses examples of genocides
perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
The chapter on the Armenian Genocide, which has appeared since the
first edition of the publication, is authored by ANI Director Dr.
Rouben Adalian. More than 50,000 copies of the publication have been
sold over the years.
This publication was followed by the release of the online and print
versions of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
issued by Macmillan Reference, a major publisher of educational
materials, to which Dr. Adalian contributed an entry on the Armenian
Genocide. The article appears in a section dedicated to Genocide
and Crimes Against Humanity that includes entries, among others,
on the Assyrian Massacre, Bosnia, Cambodia, Japanese Occupation,
Mayan Genocide in Guatemala, Rwanda, and Sudan.
As part of its continuing service to educators and to coincide with
the release of Centuries of Genocide, ANI expanded its "Resource
Guide" and other sections of the "Education" component of the ANI
website. Dozens of resources were selected for their instructional
value and are listed for the benefit of students and teachers. ANI
also expanded the database it maintains on Armenian Genocide memorials.
ANI also introduced a new section to its website documenting the
extent of "Press Coverage" and discussion of the Armenian Genocide
over the course of the past decade. As part of this expansion, the
section documenting the growing trend of international affirmation
of the Armenian Genocide was also updated.
The "Affirmation" section of the website reflects municipal, state,
and federal level recognitions from around the world. With 174 official
documents posted supporting the record of affirmation by 43 of the
United States, another 50 posted official enactments attest to the
extent of international affirmation of the Armenian Genocide with
21 countries formally on record. To facilitate navigation of the
growing list of international recognitions, a summary page listing
the countries in alphabetical order is provided.
Continuing its services, ANI, in coordination with AGMA and the
Assembly, is preparing to issue by April 2014 a major new online
exhibit on the Armenian Genocide featuring extensive new photographic
and documentary evidence.
http://massispost.com/2014/01/armenian-national-institute-website-sees-1-million-more-hits-in-2013/