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§ Synopsis of State Projects

July 2000 Data

  1. ALABAMA
    • Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) (telnet link)
      1. Established: c.1984
      2. Funding: $100K funded by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; database access financed by those libraries sharing access
      3. Type: 20 public institutions supporting advanced degree programs; 37 cooperative members that support research or are state agencies
      4. Technology Base: Linked local systems using NOTIS PACSearch and PACLINK-- 8 NOTIS, 3 Sirsi, DRA, Dynix; database mounted using MDAS and InfoShare; telecom through Alabama Supercomputing Authority
      5. Services:
        • Delivery of materials owned by members through fax/ARIEL, Pony Express
        • Cooperative collection development: Union list of major microform sets
        • Continuing education program
        • Databases-- UAB, Auburn and Univ. of Alabama mount files accessed by others as interested: ERIC, PsycInfo, ABI/INFORM, Current Contents, MLA, Expanded Academic Index, and Compendex; gateway to IAC host
      6. Staffing: 2
      7. Contact Person: Sue O. Medina, Director, NAAL
        • Phone: (334) 242-2211 or 2164; FAX: (334) 242-0270
        • Email: achsom01@asnmail.asc.edu
  2. CALIFORNIA
    • California Digital Library (CDL) via Library of Tomorrow Initiative
      1. Established: 1997
      2. Funding: $1M for 1997; $3M for 1998
      3. Type: Established as the 10th library in the University of California system with its own executive director, budget, and staff
      4. Technology Base: Unknown
      5. Services:
        • To license, acquire, develop, and manage electronic content and to facilitate access to such content
        • To swiftly migrate to electronic journals
        • To implement direct borrowing between UL campuses
        • To contract an expeditious, reliable delivery service
      6. Staffing: Executive director; 1 each for collection development, education and communications, business development
      7. Contact Person: Susan S. Starr, Library Planning and Action Initiative Coordinator, UC
        • Phone: (510) 987-0370; FAX: (510) 839-3573
        • EMAIL: susan.starr@ucop.edu
  3. COLORADO
    • Access Colorado Library and Information Network (ACLIN)
      1. Established: 1992
      2. Funding: 2.5M from DOE; 400K from NTIA; 237K per year from state for FY96 and FY97
      3. Type: State-wide multitype network sponsored by the Colorado State Library and the Adult Education Office
      4. Technology Base: 23 computer host systems providing access through 16 dial-in lines and 800 numbers via Colorado SuperNet to 200 library catalogs and 50 information databases; planning to install Z39.50 for host systems
      5. Services:
        • Free access anywhere in state via local or toll-free phone call
        • Recruit and train resource people who in turn train their constituencies about the resources on ALCIN
        • Includes the Colorado Legislative Database which provides information on the activities of the legislature
      6. Staffing: 1 project director, 1 project manager, 2 database consultants, 1 training director, 1 project evaluator, 1 UNIX programmer, 1 project assistant, 1 office manager
      7. Contact Person: Nancy Bolt, State Librarian, Colorado State Library
        • Phone: (303) 866-6907; FAX: (303) 866-6940
        • Email: nbolt@csn.net
  4. FLORIDA
    • Florida Distance Learning Library Initiative
      1. Established: October 1997
      2. Funding: $2M for 97/98 by state legislature for the Florida Distance Learning Network and the Florida Institute of Public Postsecondary Distance Learning Board
      3. Type: Community colleges, public universities and public libraries
      4. Technology Base: OCLC SiteSearch
      5. Services:
        • Access to electronic resources
        • Reference and referral Services
        • Library user instruction
        • Universal borrowing privileges
        • Document delivery
        • Course reserve services
        • Access to library equipment and facilities
      6. Staffing: Unknown
      7. Contact Person: madausr@ccla.lib.fl.us
    • College Center for Library Automation (CCLA)
      1. Established: 1980's
      2. Funding: $3.5M/ year funded by state legislature; proposed database acquisitions project for 96/97 shared by community college libraries
      3. Type: 28 community colleges, 58 libraries in 46 cities; total of 950K students
      4. Technology Base: DRA system; databases centrally mounted or accessed via Open DRAnet
      5. Services:
        • Union database of members' holdings
        • Sequentially activating DRA modules
        • On-site training
        • Staffed service desk-- 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m
        • Databases-- ERIC, Grolier Encyclopedia, UMI Newspaper & Periodical Abstracts, A Matter of Fact, UnCover
        • Exploring end user-initiated ILL, full-text databases, expanded connectivity, distance education issues
      6. Staffing: 40
      7. Contact Person: J. Richard Madaus, Director, CCLA
        • PH: (904) 922-6044; FAX: (904) 922-6431
        • Email: madausr@ccla.lib.fl.us
    • Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA)
      1. Established: 1984
      2. Funding: Funded centrally; license fees shared by institutions; negotiate consortium rate and prorate across institutions
      3. Type: 10 universities, 50 libraries in 20 cities; total of 205K students
      4. Technology Base: Shared NOTIS system at Univ. of Florida; expanded MDAS; wrote database loaders for all non-MARC files; looking at other platforms for full-text
      5. Services:
        • 8.5M bibliographic database across 9 catalogs; union author/title index; demand for union subject index; 14M transactions / month
        • Databases-- 18 loaded centrally: ERIC, PsycInfo, Wilson, etc.; gateway to FirstSearch, Eureka Citadel, and UnCover; looking at EBSCO, IAC for full-text to load locally
        • Exploring electronic course reserve, digital archiving and preservation, and digitizing special collections
      6. Staffing: 22 (11 programmers, 6 librarians, 5 support staff)
      7. Contact Person: James Corey, Director, FCLA
        • PH: (352) 392-9020; FAX: (352) 392-9185
        • Email: fcljim@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
  5. GEORGIA
    • Georgia Library Learning Online System (GALILEO)
      1. Established: 1995
      2. Funding: "A Vision for One Statewide Library" funded by state legislature-- $10M; $4M for Peachnet upgrade, $6M for GALILEO; $2.42M for 1997
      3. Type: 43 state publicly-funded colleges and universities; focus on undergraduates; expanded to 20 private colleges, 60 public libraries, 34 technical colleges; will include K-12 and one public library per county
      4. Technology Base: Two mirrored sites at Univ. of Georgia and Georgia State Univ.; using OCLC's SiteSearch with WebZ interface for citation and ASCII full-text databases; Peachnet for Internet access
      5. Services:
        • Connect all 43 libraries to Peachnet
        • Automation of remaining libraries (DRA or PALS)
        • Retrospective conversion of 650K titles
        • Universal borrowing through high-speed fax, courier service
        • Coordinated access to research journals
        • Electronic access to state census data mounted at UGA
        • Distribution of scanned state documents
        • Databases-- UMI, Wilson, FirstSearch, Britannica, ERIC, Business Dateline, ABI/INFORM, Current Contents
      6. Staffing: 4 (1 system analyst, 2 programmers,1 library tech. assistant)
      7. Contact Person: Bill Potter, University of Georgia Libraries
        • Phone: (706) 542-0621 or 6522
        • Email: wpotter@uga.cc.uga.edu
  6. ILLINOIS
    • Illinois Library and Information Network (ILLINET)
      1. Established: 1975
      2. Funding: 3 funding sources--
        • State funding -- $3.9M annually
        • Illinois State Library -- $430K for FY96
        • ILCSO (Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization) member libraries $2.2M for FY96
      3. Type: 2,900 multitype libraries
      4. Technology Base: 45 ILCSO members share an union catalog containing over 9.2M unique titles and over 29M holdings; implementing Z39.50 platform
      5. Services:
        • OCLC FirstSearch Project -- The State Library, using "Live and Learn Initiative" funds, provides members unlimited, no-charge access to a core group of FirstSearch databases in Fall of 1994 ($500K/yr.)
        • ILDS (Intersystem Library Delivery Service), funded by the State Library, links the state's 12 regional library systems.
        • Interlibrary borrowing transactions of 565K in 1995
        • ILSCO members funds IBIS (Illinois Bibliographic Information Service) to provides access to citation indexes and IAC SearchBank
      6. Staffing:
      7. Contact Person: Bridget L. Lamont, Director, Illinois State Library
        • PH: (217) 782-2994; FAX: (217) 785-4326
        • Email: blamont@library.sos.state.il.us
  7. INDIANA
    • State University Library Automation Network (SULAN)
      1. Established: 1989
      2. Funding: 2 funding sources--
        • State funding -- initially 1.6 million, 2.9 million ongoing
        • Lilly Endowment Grant Funding -- $12 million
      3. Type: State colleges and universities plus the University of Notre Dame.
      4. Technology Base -- Consists of 6 mainframe NOTIS installations; users can search the catalogs of other institutions by doing Z39.50 searches using NOTIS PACLINK
      5. Services:
        • online catalog access
      6. Staffing: no staff; member institutions provide staffing for common project on an as-needed basis
      7. Contact Person: Ed Stockey, Library Automation Officer,
        • Indiana University Libraries, Main Library, C-2
        • Bloomington, IN 47405
        • PH: 812-855-3403; FAX: 812-855-2576
        • Email: stockey@falstaff.ucs.indiana.edu
  8. IOWA
    • State of Iowa Libraries Online (SILO)
      1. Established: 1994
      2. Funding: The State Library of Iowa obtained a $2.5 million HEA Title II-B grant to network libraries in Iowa
      3. Type: State-wide multitype consortium
      4. Technology Base: Iowa State Univ. serves as a subcontractor for technical support; includes developing a distributed network based on the variety of network options in a rural state, use of Z39.50 as a technical platform for multiple vendor systems
      5. Services:
        • Databases-- cooperative mounting of databases
        • Coordination of information efforts between public libraries and the ISU extension service
        • Internet training
      6. Staffing:
      7. Contact Person: Sharmon B. Smith, Iowa State Librarian
        • PH: (515) 281-4105; FAX: (515) 281-6191
        • Email: ssmith@mail.lib.state.ia.us
  9. LOUISIANA
    • Louisiana Online University Information System (LOUIS)
      1. Established: 1992
      2. Funding: $1M in 1992 funded by the Board of Regents on Higher Education; $160K from DOE Title II-C for hardware and POP in each county; $2.5M from DOE II-B and $1.085M from state for operations; annual membership fee $10K to $70K depending on size; $2.05M for 96/97; requested $2.6M for 97/98
      3. Type: 17 academic libraries across state-- 6K faculty, 120K students; 66 public libraries and 20 K-12 school libraries
      4. Technology Base: Distributed model; NOTIS system at LSU; Dynix Vista in Utah; 486 workstations with Web browsers; LAnet for Internet access
      5. Services:
        • Access to libraries' OPACs
        • Training by LOUIS staff
        • Delivery system with Pony Express
        • Databases-- UMI full text for 1K journals in ASCII; Online indices and abstracts using NOTIS InfoShare; IAC SearchBank
        • Exploring multimedia special collection project, electronic reserve, Digital Library prototype
      7. Staffing: 12 ( 5 analysts, 4 librarians, 1 programmer, 1 part time UNIX manager, director)
        • PH: (504) 388-3740; FAX: (504) 388-3709
        • Email: rjb@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu
  10. MARYLAND
    • SAILOR -- Maryland's Online Public Information Network
      1. Established: 1995
      2. Funding: Maryland State Department of Education's Division of Library Development and Services has dedicated two years of LSCA funds; the State of Maryland is providing $250,000 in FY 1996 to cover telecommunications ongoing costs
      3. Type: Multitype
      4. Technology Base: The Sailor telecommunications network consists of 18 host sites around the state that provide direct access to the Sailor Network in 21 counties; the Operations Center maintains a web and gopher server on a Sparc 1000 housed at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore
      5. Services:
        • No-charge Access for Marylanders to Internet resources, including a growing number of state and local government files
        • Help Desk
        • Training
        • Collection development of networked electronic resources: IAC SearchBank for summer of 1996
      6. Staffing: 2 from Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and 4 from Enoch Pratt Free Library (EPFL)
      7. Contact Person: Patricia Wallace, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Information Access Division, Chief
  11. MINNESOTA
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      1. Established: 1996
      2. Funding: The state legislature has provided $150K in planning money to the Higher Education Services Office to design a statewide library information system open to participation by all libraries, including K-12. The project has be conceived of in 3 stages -- academic libraries (est. $8M); grants to public libraries ($10M); and support for K-12 ($6M); The project, which has the support of the governor, will be submitted to the legislature in Jan. 1997 for funding of the first phase.
      3. Type: Multitype
      4. Technology Base: RFP to be developed by June 30, 1997
      5. Services:
        • To be determined
      6. Staffing: To be determined
      7. Contact Person: Charlene Mason
        • Email: c-maso@vm1.spcs.umn.edu
  12. MISSOURI
    • Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet)
      1. Established: 1990
      2. Funding: Established with NSF funding in 1990 to connect the institutions of higher education and now has the K-12 public schools being connected as well. The President of the University of Missouri is advocating the establishment of a cooperative library program based on the OhioLink model and is requesting state funding for FY 1997-98. On June 11, 1996, the Governor signed the legislation for funding the project: $3M for library automation projects, $6M for community information networks, $20M for school technology, and $16.7M for higher education information technology.
      3. Type: State-supported Univ. of Missouri and major private academic libraries
      4. Technology Base: Shared Innovative Interfaces Inc. library system and database access
      5. Services:
        • To be determined
      6. Staffing: To be determined
      7. Contact Person:
        • Email: info@more.net
  13. NORTH CAROLINA
    • North Carolina Live
      1. Established: August 1996
      2. Funding: Requested $4.7M for 97/99 from the state legislature
      3. Type: Partnership among the state university system, community colleges and the state library
      4. Technology Base: 2 mirror sites
      5. Services:
        • Database licensing
        • Retrospective conversion, especially for special collections
        • Clearinghouse for state documents
      6. Staffing: To be determined
      7. Contact Person: Sandra M. Cooper, State Librarian
        • Phone: 919-733-2570
        • E-mail: scooper@hal.dcr.state.nc.us
  14. OHIO
    • Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK)
      1. Established: 1988
      2. Funding: State funding at $8-10M / biennium in operating budget and $5-6M / biennium in capital budget
      3. Type: 15 state-assisted universities, 17 2-year colleges, 2 private and the State Library of Ohio; 500K students, faculty and staff
      4. Technology Base: Innovative Interfaces Inc. ( III ) system; central computers housed in Wright State Computer Center; DEC Alpha's and a set of 5 UMI Powerpages CD jukebox sets
      5. Services:
        • Integrated local and central catalogs ( 5.7M records from 34 libraries)
        • Online patron-initiated borrowing system
        • Research databases ; Academic Press' IDEAL to access 175 full text primary research journals
        • Document delivery services
        • 3,400 simultaneous users at 90 locations
      6. Staffing: 11.5 ( 5 from libraries with systems/automation background; 3 with technical background )
      7. Contact Person: Tom Sanville
        • E-mail: tom@ohiolink.edu
  15. TENNESSEE
    • TENN-SHARE
      1. Established: 1992
      2. Funding: None; some income generated from annual programs and workshops
      3. Type: Multitype
      4. Technology Base: OCLC Group Access Capability (GAC)
      5. Services:
        • State-wide information networking projects
        • Interlibrary loan mentoring program
        • Purchasing discounts
        • Grant applications to support library networking
        • Resource sharing projects that strengthen member libraries
        • OCLC GAC
        • Programs on current topics
      6. Staffing: 0; Committees includes collection development, grants, information technology, public information, interlibrary loan, etc.
      7. Contact Person: Linda Phillips, University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries
        • PH: (615) 974-4702; FAX: (615) 974-2708
        • E-mail: phillips@utklib.lib.utk.edu
  16. TEXAS
    • TexasShare: A Program of Resource Sharing For Texas Academic Libraries
      1. Established: 1994
      2. Funding: $1M funded by the Texas Legislature in 1994/95 biennium; for 96/97, 3 levels of funding requests at 2M, 6M, and 10M
      3. Type: 52 publicly-funded libraries in four-year institutions of higher education in Texas; intended to evolve into a system encompassing all types
      4. Technology Base: Web homepage to provide single point of inquiry for OPACs and other information services; planning Z39.50 Web gateway
      5. Services:
        • access to each other's online library catalogs
        • access to selected electronic index databases-- ABI/Inform, Periodical Abstracts
        • access to commercial electronic document delivery services
        • streamlined access to information available on the Internet
        • continuing education for staff by sharing expertise
        • Exploring the installation of ARIEL for document delivery among 52 libraries; access to full-text of several hundred journal titles to permit libraries to cancel duplicate subscriptions and redirect funds to support other services; digitizing valuable at-risk printed materials; retrospective conversion for materials of special value; experimentation with cutting-edge services -- imaging, graphics, and video conferencing
      6. Staffing: Proposal for AMIGOS to manage the system
      7. Contact Person: Jean Hamrick, Univ. of Texas at Austin
        • PH: (512) 495-4388; FAX: (512) 495-4347
        • Email: j.hamrick@mail.utexas.edu
  17. VIRGINIA
    • Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA)
      1. Established: 1994
      2. Funding: $5.2M for start-up in 94/96 through legislative appropriation to encourage cooperation and resource sharing among libraries in Virginia higher education; received $5M for 96/98
      3. Type: 51 state-assisted institutions; 27 private colleges participate funded by foundations
      4. Technology Base: VIRnet for telecom; file servers for resource libraries (6 doctoral institutions), link catalogs and databases via Z39.50
      5. Services:
        • Interlibrary loan via ARIEL with 24-hour response, 48 hour ship time via Federal Express
        • VIVA Web homepage
        • Training
        • Databases:
          • FirstSearch -- WorldCat, ABI/INFORM, Applied Science & Technology, ArticleFirst, Biological and Agricultural Index, ContentsFirst, ERIC, GPO, Medline, MLA Bibliography, Periodical Abstracts
          • Chadwyck-Healey -- English Poetry, African-American Poetry, English Verse Drama
          • Britannica Encyclopedia
          • Expanded Academic Index on servers
        • Exploring digitized images from Virginia libraries; NLM site license; other full text databases
      6. Staffing: 1; George Mason Univ. contributes 1/2 person
      7. Contact Person: Katherine A. Perry, VIVA Project Coordinator
        • PH: (703) 993-4652; FAX: (703) 993-2220 or 2229
        • Email: kperry@fen1.gmu.edu
  18. WASHINGTON
    • ::
      1. Established: 1995
      2. Funding: Funded $3.2M in 1995 and $5.2M in 1996 from the legislature; requested $2-3M for 97/99
      3. Type: 6 public baccalaureate universities
      4. Technology Base: Linking of library systems for more effective resource-sharing and joint licensing/purchase of databases
      5. Services:
        • Purchase of new systems for some libraries
        • Upgrade of existing systems for some libraries
        • Retrospective conversion
        • Staffing for resource sharing activities
      6. Staffing:
      7. Contact Person: Terry Teale, Executive Director
        • Council of Presidents' Office
        • PH: (360) 753-5107; FAX: (360) 586-0578
        • Email: tteale@u.washington.edu
  19. ACS: Associated Colleges of the South (Centre College is a member)
    • Palladian Alliance Project
      1. Established: 1995
      2. Funding: Received a $50K Mellon planning grant; received $1.2M 3-year Mellon grant in Dec. 1995
      3. Type: 13 private liberal arts institutions, Virginia to Texas; a college-based consortium
      4. Technology Base: To be determined; 8 different online systems
      5. Services:
        • Provide basic technology training
        • ARIEL workstations and ILL agreements
        • Databases--Britannica Online, ABI/INFORM Global, Periodical Abstracts Research II, and FirstSearch
      6. Staffing: Director
      7. Contact Person: Douglas Anderson, Technical Director
        • PH: (803) 294-3204
        • Email: danderso@furman.edu
  20. CIC: Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Center for Library Initiatives
    • ::
      1. Established: 1958 (CIC)
      2. Funding: --
      3. Type: 12 Academic libraries of the Big Ten and the University of Chicago
      4. Technology Base:
        • Implement Z39.50 at all CIC libraries and use OCLC WebZ for seamless Web access across OPACs;
        • Develop and implement Z39.63 - providing automation of interlibrary loan functions, and enabling patron-initiated interlibrary loan of materials found in searching the database of any CIC member institution;
        • Centrally mount electronic indexes and full texts
      5. Services:
        • Preservation of library materials
        • Collaborative collection building
        • Electronic journal management
        • Interlibrary loan
      6. Staffing:
      7. Contact Person: Barbara McFadden Allen
        • Email: bmallen@uiuc.edu

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