True Colors

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At the annual meeting of the American Library Association last month in San Francisco, the governing body of the ALA presented the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard in historic Washerst {"WAS"-herst}, Pennsylvania) with it's highest possible award for reliability and accuracy on the Internet -- the ALA Seal of Correctitude & Bona Fide Authenticity (shown at the left on the top).  We were beyond thrilled when we won the award, and we crowed a bit about it HERE. 

With this award, the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum's online site became the first and only site ever to win all three of the major awards bestowed upon Internet sites for accuracy and truthfulness. 

In addition to the ALA's seal, we had already received the Blue Ribbon for Excellence from the President's Commission for Internet Veracity and Online Quality, and this past April we won "the Distinguished VIP Award" at the Webby Awards for Verity, Integrity, and Probity. 

We at the ELD Museum pride ourselves in the level of in-depth inquiry conducted by our cracker-jack research teams, and we are honored that we have been honored for our five-step process for fact-checking:  1) Is it true?  2) Is it accurate?  3) Is it correct?  4) Is it factual? and 5) It is truthful?  Viewers of our site can rest assured that nothing goes on our site until we have answered "YES" to all five of those questions, and now we have the medals, ribbons, and awards to prove it.  

We have the trifecta of true colors.