WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 8, 2008) – The Appalachian College Association, a Longsight client, today received the prestigious 2008 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for the consortium’s project, “Learning Asset Management Project” or LAMP. LAMP brings together 14,000 students and faculty members of 16 of the Association’s member institutions in a shared instance of Sakai, a leading open source collaboration and learning environment.