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The Andy Holt Virtual Library, with a focus on the Humanities and Fine Arts, is free and open to the public, though designed to serve the learning communities within the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Tennessee-Martin (UT). It also plays a resource role in UT's New College and the Tennessee Governors School for the Humanities. This independent information source is linked to in key places to the Paul Meek Library on the UT campus. This presentation describes the development of the library and illustrates many of its links. (Contains a 21-item bibliography for digital and virtual libraries.) (Author/MES)

This paper focuses on some of the effects of climate on library and archives collections in tropical climates, and discusses some prudent alternatives to the mechanical and chemical approaches commonly used to control climate and its immediate effects. One of the most important factors affecting the longevity of library and archival materials is the environment in which they are stored, used, and displayed. Substantial research has demonstrated the profound effects of temperature, humidity, light, air circulation, and pollution, and controlling these effects is the highest priority of any preservation program. (Author)

This paper highlights some issues of concern for national libraries about the way national copyright legislation and, increasingly, international agreements may effect how successful they are in carrying out their mission. Discussion includes copyright and exceptions to copyright; preservation and access; preservation exceptions; access exceptions; recent amendments to copyright legislation; and international initiatives. The paper concludes that the concept of a national library as an institution, which promotes the published heritage of a country and facilitates access to that heritage, should not be perceived as being in conflict with copyright owners; in the end, what is required is understanding and trust between all parties in the information chain. (AEF)

The PictureAustralia service is a collaboration between cultural agencies to bring their digital pictorial collections together at the one web site, hosted by the National Library of Australia. It was developed through the identification of a need for a national image discovery service. The key to the service is its cross-sectoral nature, including the collections of libraries, museums, archives, galleries, universities, historical societies and other cultural agencies. The service operates through the use of a central metadata repository to support national discovery and to ensure consistency in searching and locating images. The participating agencies place descriptive metadata for their digital images, in the simple unqualified Dublin Core format, in a directory that can be accessed by the National Library of Australia's gathering software. This descriptive information includes the URLs for location of the associated digital images. Every two months this data is gathered into a central Oracle database and is indexed for searching. Thumbnail images are hosted on the participant sites and are pulled into the results sets in real time. Users click on a thumbnail image and are directed to the relevant member web site to view the original. From here they may remain on the member web site to search just that collection or to order a high quality copy of that image, or they may return to the PictureAustralia site to continue with their broader searching. This paper discusses the development of a prototype; the original participants; demonstration at the"Information Online and On Disc 99"; the launch of PictureAustralia; collaborative developments; the State Library of New South Wales as a participant in PictureAustralia; and evaluation and success of PictureAustralia. (AEF)

This paper describes some basic architectural choices for the access to and preservation of digital objects at the National Library of Norway. A digital repository is a core element for the handling of both access to and preservation of the digital objects. Strategies for giving access to the complete holdings include the use of a powerful search engine and the OAI protocol to harvest metadata from conventional catalog systems to make textual or structured indexes. The following basic objectives for developing a digital library at the National Library are outlined: to offer powerful digital library services adapted to user expectations and needs; to handle access to and preservation of large amounts of digital data with a variety of properties; to collaborate with other institutions on user services as well as the handling of access to and preservation of digital objects; and to let other service providers make value added services which include resources from the digital collections at the library. (Author/AEF)

Data from a research project on the value and impact of public library book reading have provided insights into the role of the public library in the reading experience. The principle of equity of access was seen as crucial, in that it provided everyone with the opportunity to encounter reading material. Respondents also compared the buying and borrowing experience. Several described how borrowing encouraged them to take risks with their reading. Others favored borrowing on ecological grounds. The bookshop was described as a "consumerist experience" whereas the library invoked a feeling of citizenship. Respondents regarded the range of stock on offer as a crucial factor. A good library allowed people to experiment with their reading. This was not perceived to be the case in all services, and there was some criticism of the literary and physical quality of the material on offer. The range of stock was also crucial to another library activity; that of browsing. Respondents also described the library as a place, and identified intangible benefits provided by the service. In analyzing the data it is clear that, for many, the positive factors outweigh the negative but that the library experience can comprise both. (Contains 17 references.) (Author)

The need for accurate and current scientific information in the fast paced Internet-aware world has prompted the scientific community to develop tools that reduce the scientist's time and effort to make digital information available to all interested parties. The availability of such tools has made the Internet a vast digital repository of information. But the ad hoc nature in which information is gathered and organized on the Web, makes access to such information a time consuming and sometimes frustrating affair. Digital library systems have the potential for solving problems in maintaining high quality scientific content delivered via the Web by providing tools for scientists to collect, verify, organize, manage, and update their collections. This paper describes an environment that reduces the effort and time required by scientists to share their data with other collaborators in an automated and asynchronous manner, thereby allowing them to focus mostly on their own scientific practice. The data is maintained as a collaborative collection in a digital library that can also be used as an educational resource. (Contains 22 references and 3 figures.) (Author)

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) is designed to facilitate discovery of the "hidden web" of scholarly information, such as that contained in databases, finding aids, and XML documents. OAI-PMH supports standardized exchange of metadata describing items in disparate collections, of such as those held by museums and libraries. This paper describes recent work done by the University of Illinois Library, recipient of one of seven OAI-related grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. An overview is given of the process used to export metadata records describing holdings of the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois. These metadata records were initially created to help track artifacts as they were procured, stored, and displayed and now are used also to support end-user searching via the Spurlock Museum Website. Spurlock metadata records were mapped to Dublin Core (DC) and then harvested into the Illinois project's metadata repository. The details of the processes used to transform the Spurlock records into OAI compliant metadata and the lessons learned during this process are illustrative of the work necessary to make museum collections available using OAI-PMH. The OAI-based search and discovery services being developed by the University of Illinois are discussed. Issues, such as the need for normalization of metadata, importance of presenting search results in context, and difficulties caused by institution-to-institution variations in metadata authoring practices are covered. (Contains 13 references.) (Author/MES)

This study explored the perspectives and information behaviors of scholars in the humanities. The following general questions were examined: How do humanities scholars think about, organize, and perform their research? How are information sources used throughout the research process? And, how do electronic information sources affect work practices? In addition, the research also looked at two specific questions related to research library collections and services: What functions and characteristics make one resource better than another? And, how can the traditional role of the library as a repository for printed works be reconciled with the provision of virtual, unallocated resources? Participants were 33 humanities scholars from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago. Data were collected by project-based semi-structured interviews, selected case studies, and follow-up semi-structured interviews. Findings are reported in the following areas: (1) ways of reading, including chaining to enable reading; (2) collaborative networking; (3) researching and searching, including collections as capital, many states of primary materials, multitude of sources, access tools for speed and scope, diverse skills and strategies, generic searching problems, and browsing across collections and tools; and (4) ways of writing, including information management, accretion, and refinement, as well as oscillating and overlapping synthesis work. One of the last sections is "Trends: The Evolving Information Environment for Humanists." Methods are appended. (Contains 29 references.) (MES)

Since its establishment in 1960, the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has had responsibility for documenting Saudi administrative literature, the official publications of Saudi Arabia, and the literature of regional and international organizations through establishment of the Document Center in 1961. This paper presents the experience of the IPA in the documentation of administrative information. Highlights include: the objectives of the Document Center; users of the center; administrative sections; the collection; and stages of information technology developments, including features of the Nomo and Nomo II information retrieval system. (MES)

This paper discusses the collection of digital publications at Die Deutsche Bibliothek as part of its mandate as the central archival library and national bibliographic center of the Federal Republic of Germany to collect, archive, index, and provide public access to all German and German-language publications. The first section describes the collection of online dissertations as the first step toward development of a new procedure for collecting, archiving, and indexing of online publications. The second section addresses the collection of online publications issued by publishers, including criteria for this process, different ways of processing, and various metadata elements. The final section summarizes the following projects concerning electronic publications: dissertations online; META-LIB (a metadata initiative of German libraries; NEDLIB (Networked European Deposit Library); and TEL (The European Library). (MES)

The Web site library is a new type of digital library incorporating both digital collections and digital service. In the parliamentary context, this new application of information and communications technology has a dual function: to provide a virtual collection to satisfy users' information demands and to provide all the current services needed by clients of a parliamentary library in modern society. In this paper, the application of information technology in the library, the role of media in the library, and its digital collection development are surveyed by decades from 1960 to 2010. Then the five domains or zones of Internet-based content in the Web site library of the Parliament Library of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic (Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China) are described (i.e., the browsing, searching, dissemination, reference, and leisure zones), and an overview of this Web site library's services is given. (Author/MES)

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of information service provided in Swedish and Chinese medical libraries and to judge the information gap between China and Sweden. Two libraries of key Chinese medical universities and a Swedish medical library were selected for the study. Based on the number of databases, print journals, electronic journals, user education courses, level of library research activities, and other services such as navigation systems and biomedical links, an evaluation of information service quality was given. Results are presented in the following areas: (1) differences in library collections, including a comparison of the latest shelved journal issues in the libraries; (2) information services in library management, professional promotion, knowledge sharing, user-centered library service, and contents of library services; (3) research activities; (4) extensive services in information technology; (5) continuing education for librarians; (6) the ability for library development; and (7) the future of medical libraries in China. The conclusion was that a large information gap exits between China and other developed countries. (Contains 10 references.) (MES)

This paper traces the development of the National Library of Canada's newspaper collection in conjunction with the Decentralized Program for Canadian Newspapers. The paper also presents a sampling from the collection in order to illustrate the rich variety of the press that has followed in the footsteps of Fleury Mesplet, one of the first printers of newspapers in North America. Highlights include: the history of newspaper publishing in Canada from 1752 to 1858; responsibilities of the National Library of Canada newspaper collection and preservation program; and achievements at the national and regional levels, including creation online of "The Union List of Canadian Newspapers." Special types of newspapers collected are described, including: special issues of Canadian newspapers such as Christmas/holiday issues, carnival issues, and souvenir issues; labor and alternative press newspapers; ethnic press newspapers; student press newspapers; and community press newspapers; and aboriginal newspapers. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/MES)

This paper provides an overview of the beginnings of the newspaper in Brazil with information on the more significant titles and their role in the history of journalism and their impact on social change that occurred between the Imperial and Republican periods. Current collections at the National Library and legal deposit are discussed. It describes the present and historical collections and efforts to preserve them through microfilming and digitizing processes. Some statistics are provided for the collections and microfilms that have been made available. Brief information on the online access of the newspaper periodical databases is also given. (MES)

Almost all work on music information retrieval to date has concentrated on music in the audio and event (normally MIDI) domains. However, music in the form of notation, especially Conventional Music Notation (CMN), is of much interest to musically trained persons, both amateurs and professionals, and searching CMN has great value for digital music libraries. One obvious reason little has been done on music retrieval in CMN form is the overwhelming complexity of CMN, which requires a very substantial investment in programming before one can even begin studying music information retrieval. This paper reports on work adding music retrieval capabilities to Nightingale[R]. Nightingale[R] is a professional-level music notation editor for the Macintosh computer, written in the C language; it has been marketed commercially for a number of years. Nightingale[R], was used as a platform for studying CMN-based music information retrieval by adding several music searching features and commands. The resulting program is called "NightingaleSearch." (Contains 23 references.) (Author/AEF)

This paper describes how SDLIP and STARTS, two complementary protocols for searching over distributed document collections, were combined. The resulting protocol, called SDARTS, is simple yet expressible enough to enable building sophisticated metasearch engines. SDARTS can be viewed as an instantiation of SDLIP with metasearch-specific elements from STARTS. The paper also reports on the experience of building three SDARTS-compliant wrappers: for locally available plain-text document collections, for locally available XML document collections, and for external Web-accessible collections. These wrappers were developed to be easily customizable for new collections. This work was developed as part of Columbia University's Digital Libraries Initiative-Phase 2 (DLI2) project, which involves the departments of Computer Science, Medical Informatics, and Electrical Engineering, the Columbia University libraries, and a large number of industrial partners. The main goal of the project is to provide personalized access to a distributed patient-care digital library. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/AEF)

Text categorization is typically formulated as a concept learning problem where each instance is a single isolated document. This paper is interested in a more general formulation where documents are organized as page sequences, as naturally occurring in digital libraries of scanned books and magazines. The paper describes a method for classifying pages of sequential OCR text documents into one of several assigned categories and suggests that taking into account contextual information provided by the whole page sequence can significantly improve classification accuracy. The proposed architecture relies on hidden Markov models whose emissions are bag-of-words according to a multinomial word event models, as in the generative portion of the Naive Bayes classifier. Results on a collection of scanned journals from the "Making of America" project confirm the importance of using whole page sequences. Empirical evaluation indicates that the error rate (as obtained by running a plain Naive Bayes classifier on isolated page) can be roughly reduced by half if contextual information is incorporated. (Contains 30 references.) (Author/AEF)

This paper on electronic books (e-books) in the academic library begins by defining the e-book and presenting general information on developments in the e-book industry, including collections of e-books that are accessed through the Internet and electronic editions of print books that can be downloaded to a proprietary reading device. A list of e-book reading devices, along with links to their World Wide Web sites, is included. NetLibrary, an online e-book collection that is enjoying popularity in all types of libraries, is described. The problems and challenges that the e-book presents to a university library are addressed, including circulation, readability, bibliographic control, and administrative problems. The LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act)-funded Electronic Book Evaluation Project is summarized. (Contains 14 references.) (MES)

The goal of the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse is to uphold the principles of the Library Bill of Rights in all types of libraries by improving communication between librarians, board members, professional associations, and other concerned groups in Oregon about challenges to intellectual freedom, and by increasing awareness as to how threats to intellectual freedom can be overcome. The data collection is limited to formal challenges to any type of library material in any type of Oregon library. A formal challenge is defined as a written "Request for Reconsideration" or "Statement of Concern" submitted by a group or individual to a library. Additional information is obtained from newspaper reports, if available. In a few instances, newspaper articles are the sole source of information about a challenge. The Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse received information about 47 challenges against library materials between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001. Thirty of the challenged titles were books, 12 were videotapes or DVDs, one was a compact disc, one was a magazine, two were books on tape, and one was a book/audio tape combination. Public libraries experienced 41 of the challenges and school libraries reported six challenges. Twenty-two of the challenges items were designated as children's or young adult materials, and 25 were materials for adults. In 46 of the challenges, library staff committees or a school board decided that the materials should be retained. Three of those items were reclassified to more accurately reflect the content and one of those items is not restricted to teacher use. One item was removed from a school library collection. For each item listed in this Fourteenth Annual Report, a summary of objections and a summary of events are provided. A statistical snapshot of the challenges reported since the inception of the Clearinghouse in May 1987 is then presented, followed by a 5-year overview of Clearinghouse data that analyzes the data in a graphic format. A final section identifies other intellectual freedom issues in Oregon in 2000-2001. (AEF)

This annual report details the activities and accomplishments of the Library of Virginia for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2001. Following messages from the Board Chairman and the Librarian of Virginia, the document reports on: acquisitions; "All Virginia Reads: An Evening with William Styron"; conservation and preservation; volunteers; the Virginia Center for the Book; Digital Library Program; expanding citizen access to the Internet; records management; public funds support; statistical information; Web site; summer reading program; outreach services and programs; the Library of Virginia Foundation; Library of Virginia statement of revenues and expenditures-cash basis; fiscal year 2001 state aid to localities; and the Virginia Circuit Court Records Preservation Program. The report also lists: State Historical Records Advisory Board members; State Networking Users Advisory Board members; State Public Records Advisory Council members; contributors to the Library of Virginia Foundation; in-kind donors; donors to the Virginia Center for the Book; and in-kind contributors to the Virginia Authors Room. (AEF)

This pamphlet focuses on developments in the Library of Michigan during the year 2000. The year 2000 marks the Library of Michigan's 140th consecutive year serving the citizens of Michigan as a federal depository library. A profile of the new State Librarian of Michigan, Christie Pearson Brandau, is given, including her goals as State Librarian, initiatives she has been part of, and upcoming projects. The first Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Open House was held at the Library of Michigan on February 25, 2000. Highlights of the event are given, followed by a discussion of new developments at the Library of Michigan. Researchers all over the world may now access a new service that provides unprecedented online access to the Michigan 1870 census records. This resource is described. The pamphlet then highlights the Library of Michigan's genealogy collection, the Library of Michigan's Service to the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the law library, and the rare book collection. Accomplishments of the Library of Michigan Foundation are also described. (AEF)

This paper discusses the impact of change on the State Library of New South Wales (Australia), a large public research library charged with the care and continuing use of a documentary heritage. The first section provides background on the State Library, including history, collection, mission, and use. The second section describes library clients, including four distinct client groups (i.e., professional readers, personal interest readers, work/business readers, and students), development of a three-tiered service model, promotion and development of information literacy. The third section describes collections, including the addition of items to the library's World Wide Web catalog, the preservation of paper and electronic resources, and collection development policy. The fourth section considers the importance of two key capabilities, i.e., the competencies of library staff, and the success of collaborations with other organizations. The fifth section addresses context, presenting libraries of documentary heritage as part of a broad canvas of political, economic, and social values. (Contains 18 references.) (MES)

This report reviews accomplishments of the first year of the 1999-2002 contract funding the Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN), an essential component in improvement of California's adult education program. Five chapters on Electronic Communications describe the OTAN web site and provide data on World Wide Web hits and hosts, web site membership and its growth, and round table work groups; describe technical support, training courses, web site trainings, and evaluation summaries; provide example marketing materials; show the adult learner web sites; and provide an online course, a tutorial to assist California agencies applying for Workforce Investment Act funding. Six chapters on Information and Reference Services provide information on and samples of OTAN's adult education collections; present data on provision of reference services; discuss expansion of the collaborative areas of the web site related to instruction; and highlight efforts in regional resource centers support, maintenance of California adult education archives, and workplace literacy efforts--VESL Workplace Clearinghouse and Employment Training Library. Three chapters on instructional technology focus on OTAN efforts to make available technical learning resources, implement instructional technology, and pilot local agency intervention. OTAN 1999-00 quarterly progress reports are appended. (YLB)

This paper gives an overview of activities related to access to information about women that have been undertaken by librarians and other information professionals worldwide over the past decade. The first section addresses access issues, including bias in traditional cataloging/classification practices and controlled vocabularies. The second section discusses women's information in libraries, including examples of the variety of libraries, documentation centers, and archives worldwide that are the best resources for women's information. The third section considers collection development issues, including the difficulty of collecting materials from small presses and the lack of women's studies specialists in libraries. The fourth section covers women's studies librarianship. The fifth section summarizes progress and prospects, including a 1998 conference hosted by the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement and an online guide to collections of women's information. Includes a directory of relevant organizations. (MES)

This paper discusses sources specific to Jewish genealogical research and shows how the collection resources of the Israel Genealogical Society (IGS) library have exemplified this. The paper begins with a description of basic genealogical sources available at public, state, and university libraries. Examples of sources unique to Jewish genealogical research are then listed, including Yizkor books, Rabbinical dynastic literature, Holocaust lists and literature, Jewish reference books, journals of various Jewish Genealogical Societies, and the Jewish Genealogical Discussion list. Historical background on the IGS is provided, and the IGS collection is described, including specialized software and information source files, audiovisual materials, and periodicals. Appendices include: (1) a list of Jewish genealogical research World Wide Web sites, (2) a subject index of the IGS genealogical library, including headings for general works, family names, place names, and periodicals; (3) the cover page of the IGS's journal "Sharsharet Hadorot"; and (4) a selected bibliography of research sources relating to Jewish genealogical research, including 25 books and articles, six periodicals, four discussion groups, and five videos. (MES)

The main function of the library of the future is to provide access to electronic sources stored elsewhere. In order to comply with the users' needs, therefore, flexible license scenarios are necessary. Another future function of the library will be to set up and maintain a personal alerting system and to assist users in organizing their own information, which should be integrated as much as possible in specific work processes of individual users. This means that the library of the future no longer provides a collection of information in the traditional sense of the term, but an access to that collection. The library's tools, facilities, and infrastructure enable users to create their own information systems: collections consisting of links to information sources relevant for their personal use. This paper begins with a section that discusses recent trends in library activities. The second section addresses access to electronic sources, including possibilities for providing access, workable variants for licenses for access to electronic information (i.e., free access, full licenses for well-defined user groups, and pay-per-view), and information retrieval and user interfaces. The third section describes services of the electronic library, including: search facilities; personal alerting system; personal homepage facilities; facilities for the integration of information services in the user's primary processes; and interactivity. The fourth section considers consequences for collection management. (Author/MES)

This paper describes public library services to deaf and hard of hearing persons in Denmark. Topics covered include: (1) target groups, including deaf, deafened, hard of hearing persons, professionals and relatives who have contact with the hearing impaired, and other groups using visual communication; (2) means of communication, including sign language, Sign Danish, Danish with supporting signs, signs to spoken language, spoken language, reading lips, and mouth hand system; (3) the collection, including teaching videos, videos with stories told in sign language, feature films with subtitles, CD-ROMs, picture books with sign illustrations, fiction with hearing impaired characters, nonfiction, periodicals, language stimulating materials (e.g., games), and pamphlets; and (4) the job of the librarian, including external relations, material selection, working with users, and collaboration. (Contains 11 references.) (MES)

This paper provides an overview of the Elazar classification system for libraries of Judaica. The authors of the scheme contend that there was and is a need for a system for libraries of Judaica to classify and arrange their collections according to Jewish concepts based upon Jewish thought and terminology. Topics covered include: (1) initial development and the first edition; (2) revision and the second edition; (3) revision and the third edition; (4) spelling authority; (5) the problem of having to use another system for general works in libraries that combine Jewish and general collections; (6) important features; (7) unique usage/expansion of the system; and (8) a summary of the philosophy behind the Elazar system. (MES)

The Z. Aranne Central Education Library of Hebrew University (Israel) has two functions: it is an academic library and a national library on education. As a university library, it serves the students and faculty of the School of Education, as well as students of other faculties of the Hebrew University. The Education Library plays the role of a national library with its special collection including reports, decisions and archival material about education in Israel, textbooks for schools, and other non-book materials with historical significance. Library users have access to electronic resources such as e-periodicals and databases through the library network as part of the Universities Libraries Consortium. The Education Library is on its way to being a global library and must enable maximum and easy access to all library resources. The library has adapted to advanced technology and growing diversity of users by adjusting its structured training programs as: (1) general library orientation; (2) workshops for faculty for use of electronic resources; (3) workshops for M.A. and Ph.D. students oriented to special research subjects; (4) library orientation for Israelis who study at foreign university branches; and (5) workshops for school pupils on special collection on hot educational subjects such as drug education and violence in schools. (MES)

This paper discusses the role of the Parliamentary Library in Russia. The first section provides historical background. The second section addresses two prerequisites of the Parliamentary Library, i.e., the official documents collections and the rule of public law. The third section describes implementing public access to government information through the Russian Parliamentary Library, including the role of the library, legal deposit of official documents, the national official documents collection of the post-Soviet era, information sharing through reference services and interlibrary loan, publication of bibliographic indexes, and other Parliamentary Library publications. The fourth section considers the integration of library resources as the road to better service to the public. The fifth section discusses building a new millennium of democracy and peace, highlighting the following lessons that other libraries can draw from the experience of the Russian Parliamentary Library in providing government information to the public: (1) access depends on order (i.e., classification, unified collections, cataloging, indexing); (2) wide and effective public and legislative access demands automation and electronic networking of legal data; (3) public legal information should be shared between nations with similar legal heritages; and (4) librarians must share their training and expertise to build effective public services of legal and government information. (MES)

This paper begins with a discussion of the characteristics and the singularity of chaotic systems, including dynamic systems theory, chaotic orbit, fractals, chaotic attractors, and characteristics of chaotic systems. The second section addresses the digital libraries (DL) concept and the appropriateness of chaotic models, including definition and characteristics of the digital library, collection, material technical organization, users and the circulation of knowledge, and organizational changes. (Contains 12 references.) (MES)

This library technology plan from Mission College in California establishes the goals, objectives, strategies, and implementation plans of the library in developing and maintaining its technical capabilities and electronic resources. The goals are organized into four categories: information resources, instructional resources, infrastructure, and human resources. The objectives and strategies for the first are: (1) universal online access to information; (2) organization of effective access to electronic resources; and (3) increased access to information resources through resource sharing. The objectives and strategies for instructional resources are: (1) instructional modules and courses; (2) continuing education for faculty; and (3) an information competency requirement. The objectives and strategies for the infrastructure are: (1) facilities that, after the move to a new building, will provide a fully wired organization with an interactive instruction room; (2) systems; and (3) equipment and furnishings. Finally, the objectives and strategies for human resources are: (1) staff support; (2) staff development; and (3) efficient use of resources. (Includes implementation and funding table.) (NB)