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Relates news briefs on digital libraries. A partnership at Cornell University with computer scientists and librarians to develop better strategies for documents and other data; The funding by the United States Department of Education of two projects at Columbia University to make South Asian resources and library collections more available through enhancement and use of the World Wide Web.

Reports on a National Leadership grant awarded to the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library for the creation of an online picture collection. How the library will use the federal grant to digitize, catalog, and make available on the Internet out-of-copyright images from its Picture Collection; Details of the collection which includes clippings from sources, such as books, magazines, and catalogs; Selection of pictures from its most widely used categories, including Costume and American History.

Presents various news items of interest to library science practitioners as of July 1988. Victory of librarians in New Mexico with the State Board of Education vote against adopting a proscriptive glossary of New Age teaching methods; Extension of credit hours for master's degree by the Columbia University School of Library Service; Millage hike for library operating expenses at the Grosse Pionte Public Library, Michigan.