The Council on Library and Information Resources produces a number of written works to inform the community of library specialists on a host of important and pressing topics, including preservation awareness, resources for scholarship, and digital libraries. This particular work came out of an invitational conference sponsored by the Council in May 2003 which was designed "to examine the key...

In this article Jack Solock, Special Librarian for the InterNIC Net Scout Services, discusses how librarians are responding to the Internet and its potential benefits. Drawing on his experience at the 116th Conference of the American Libraries Association, Solock finds that many librarians are resistant to the Internet, believing it to be lacking compared with print resources.

In late September 2000, the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science published results of its sixth public library Internet study released in the last decade (see the September 6, 1996 Scout Report for information about the 1996 survey). The 2000 Internet Connectivity Study measured the level of connectivity, public access, training support, and technology funding, current and...

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