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The article reports that the collections of the New York State Library in Albany will be available to all New York residents. In a six-month pilot project, all residents of New York State will now have access to the collections of the New York State Library in Albany. Previously, access was available only to state officials and employees, legislators, members of the state bar, state licensed physicians, and local government historians. With the project, announced by New York education commissioner Richard Mills, all New Yorkers 18 and older can borrow directly from the library's circulating collection, as well as getting remote access to the library's NOVEL online databases, New York's statewide virtual library. NOVEL includes a range of resources, including full-text electronic-collections of national and international newspapers and magazines. The policy addresses a 2000 New York State Regents Commission on Library Services report that outlined ten recommendations to improve library services in New York State, which included improving access to the collections of the state library.

The article discusses the findings of the Lilead Project survey, which researched the conditions facing U.S. school libraries. Topics discussed include the lack of resources available to district school library supervisors, the professional development, technology support, and collection development responsibilities held by school library supervisors, and the stress experienced by school library supervisors. Charts and graphs illustrating the findings of the survey are also provided.

Describes how the Saint Louis Municipal Library Cooperative employed an integrated computer package for the Missouri library. Courses and workshops attended by library staff and officers; Barcoding the collection; Effort to make computer available by appointment for use by individuals of the community; Vendor support for the Book Trak program; Funding for the computers.

This article discusses the factors which may contribute to campus literacy programs in the U.S. as of March 1, 1991. The Federal Student Literacy Corps provides funding over two years to institutions of higher learning for developing courses that address literacy and include a volunteer component for students to become involved in field service work. The second edition of the book Literacy Action: A Resource Book for Colleges and Universities written by Louisa B. Meacham, covers all the major issues involved in establishing and running a campus literacy program. College and university librarians support student literacy initiatives or the literacy efforts of their local public libraries by providing office/meeting space for student literacy coalitions, space for tutoring/student training sessions and access to bulletin boards and campuswide publications. They can also develop professional collections of literacy materials for program coordinators, tutors and trainers. Support may also be given through the creation of a demonstration collection for tutors to review literacy materials. If there are children's titles in education or library science collection, it should be made available to student tutors to use in family literacy activities.

This section presents information on several computer software and CD-ROM packages for U.S. libraries. Get-A-Ref version 4.0 is a tool for researchers, scientists, physicians, graduate students, or anyone else who must access and update personal libraries of reprints. The Third College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary database holds approximately 30 megabytes of standard dictionary data including 140,000 lexemes, 180,000 definitions, 51,000 etymologies, and 50,000 classification descriptors. Utlas International has released a CD-ROM containing over 460,000 full MARC serials records to complement its CD-CATSS cataloging system. The records consist of the pre-1987 authenticated CONSER files from the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada as well as original serials records from selected Utlas customers. The Unisys Corp. has completed negotiations with the University of North Dakota for the implementation of a PALS Library Management system to serve libraries statewide. The network will allow the Grand Forks Public Library and the North Dakota State Library to make their combined 1.7 million-volume collection available to any library system.

Presents a checklist of recent announcements in regards to information and library science. Conversion of thousands of manuscript collection records to machine-readable form; Acceptance of a hundred thousand dollar bequest from Ethel M. Crate to the Tulsa Library in Oklahoma; Automation project to make Vermont's public and private library collections available to every citizen in the state; Other announcements.

Reports that the ethnographic field collection `Voices of the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection' from the Library of Congress is available from the American Memory Program at its web site address. Contents of the collection; Reference to the documentation of the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941; Contact point for source of the collection.