Bibliographical Center for Research, Aurora, CO
"This two-year project will supplement the Public Library Association's new "Planning for Results" process by creating new tools that will enable libraries to collect more role-specific library output data and standardized user outcome data."

John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
"Using the already-digitized Levy Collection, this two-year project will develop a comprehensive suite of tools that will diminish the manual input necessary to manage the workflow of large-scale digitization projects. The project will also add web-based music
searching and analysis tools to the database so that users can do tune-based searching, and it will extend plans for developing automated means of mining authoritative name information and creating richer name indexes."

Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
"A two-year project to convert a program about Portland neighborhoods from a stand-alone interactive video exhibit to an interactive Web-based database, and to promote its use by K-12 educators and students for researching local history."

Research Foundation of State University, Amherst, NY
"This one-year project will investigate the impact of the Internet on public library use via a national telephone survey. The project will document how people are currently using the public library and the Internet and identify the ways in which libraries and the Internet are competing with and complimenting one another."

University of California, Riverside, CA
"A two-year project to develop the next generation of the Internet information system INFOMINE. The project will respond to the national need to develop comprehensive, publicly supported, user friendly systems for collecting and disseminating the best of electronic information."

University of Illinois at Urbana,Champaign, IL 
"A two-year project that will develop, implement, and assess community-wide participative models for the creation and management of networked community information services, using as a case study the domain of African American women's physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual health."

University of Texas - Austin, TX
"A two-year project to provide a set of tools and guidelines that libraries, museums, and other information agencies can use to improve the utility of their web sites."

Washington State Library, Olympia, WA
"A one-year project to demonstrate the effectiveness of a Government Information Locator Service tool developed by the Washington State Library to connect people with government, in partnership with the states of Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Oregon."

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"A two-year study to explore the ways in which the urban poor interact with and benefit from free access to information technology in the public library. The research aims to assess the impact that having access to information technology makes in the lives of the urban poor."

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