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Public Act 95‐234, An Act Establishing a Commu‐nications Grant Program for Schools and Libraries and the Connecticut Library Network was passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1995. This act directs the Connecticut State Library to plan and develop the Connecticut Library Network (CLN). The act specifies that the CLN shall 1) be an expansion of the State Library's existing statewide database, 2) have the potential to link all school, public, and academic libraries and municipal government offices, and 3) for the purpose of making the State Library's information resources accessible through the state via the network, incorporate the linkage of the State Library to the library automation system of the Connecticut State University.

Outlines the efforts of the State Library of North Carolina to provide access to the Internet and to electronic information resources for libraries in the state. The major challenge of finding a cost‐effective alternative to its statewide network, which was terminated by a 1993 legislative mandate, has led to opportunities to provide better services and resources by switching public libraries to point‐to‐point protocol (PPP) accounts and by migrating the State library’s information resources to an Internet‐accessible workstation.

Most literature on acquisitions, as well as on other aspects of librarianship, tends to focus on the developed countries. Automation, the application of the latest technologies and skills to library service, and similar issues are exhaustively studied and discussed. Unfortunately, such subjects are hardly of immediate relevance to the countries of the Third World.

Wyoming has been referred to as a small town with long streets. It ranks fiftieth in population with an estimated 475,000 people living in 97,914 square miles. This small‐town outlook or perspective results in a high level of trust in one another and a willingness to work together. The increasing use of electronic communications builds on that level of trust.

The American library community is discovering small businesses and economic development. Individual librarians and libraries, of course, have provided effective information services to the business community for many years. Library service to businesses influenced John Cotton Dana to found the Special Libraries Association. Large urban library systems established “mercantile” libraries during the early years of their development. Within the past decade, however, the library community's service to the business and economic development sector has increased significantly. The reasons for this surge in service are simple. Service has been increased because of accountability, competition, opportunity, and evolution. It will be helpful to discuss each of these areas before presenting ten steps state library agencies can take to foster small business development and economic development because factors in each area need to be considered in order to establish a conceptual background for the recommendations.

The information highway is changing our society in very dramatic ways. Argues that state libraries need to make it a priority item on their agendas. They need to provide leadership, promote collaboration and provide empowerment for local libraries. Observes that these three key elements, successfully applied, will position libraries and the library profession as leaders within their communities and their states.

The “Libraries in Rhode Island” menu of the Ocean State Free‐Net (OSFN; see figure 1) presents the overarching multilibrary network in the state of Rhode Island (see figure 2). The Rhode Island Depart‐ment of State Library Services initiated the OSFN to provide online public access to libraries statewide. The menu represents access to the catalogs of 51 of Rhode Island's 62 public and academic libraries.

The Vermont library environment has been heavily involved with information technology since the early 1980s. Like most of the library world, Vermont's introduction came through technical services from OCLC. Use of computers to replace teletype machines and paper mail to speed the interlibrary loan process soon followed.

To report on the Delta State Chapter of the Nigeria Library Association Conference/Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Wednesday, 9‐10 November 2005 at Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, with the theme, “Library literacy and sustainable education” aimed at creating an awareness among librarians and the literate members of the state on the philosophy of the profession and the centrality of its place in facilitating a sustained and steady tempo in the educational development of the state.

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Focus on activities of the event; the conference had, as one of the main activities on its agenda, the launching of a school library in one of the remote villages of the state; a step that was targeted at exposing the students and pupils of this area to recorded knowledge. Considering that knowledge is self‐generating, functioning and expanding on the basis of existing information resources, to promote library literacy and sustainable education in Delta State. Libraries in the State should be equipped and up‐dated with library materials, information and computer facilities.

Reveals how Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) can revolutionize libraries in developing countries.

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how statewide advocacy and advocacy planning can effectively ward off major threats to library funding.

The paper presents a case study of New Jersey advocacy efforts when faced with proposed legislation to halve the minimum mandated funding for public libraries in the state. The paper describes various advocacy strategies.

The advocacy process has had encouraging results, although the threat of funding cuts remains.

The case study demonstrates that creating a statewide task force to focus on advocacy and other advocacy strategies can be effective in thwarting legislative efforts to reduce library funding.