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Bibliographical Center for Research • Volume XXII. No 10. October 199.6 • ISSN: 0363·0250
Wyoming's Web Page HelJls Steer
·· S. tate into.Ageonechnology ,
· By Sharon Hofp,ines
, Western states ar~ m~ving fr;m their ra~c~~:ng roots'
" '.to high technology;'anc:!Wyomingis no exception.
, The development of the Wyoming ~ta'te Library's
, WorldWide Webserver,"Cowgirl," is'symbolicof
, this ~volution. '
, 'cowgillwas originally brought on:linei.nNovem­,
ber 1995 on a 486PC server On loan fromanother
, state agency. Recently" liowever, Cowgirlwas ex-
, panded to a new high-end UNlXserver that, has "sig­,
nificantly enhanced the capabilities of the Wy()ming
: 'State'Library's',weh-seryices/' aG~ordjp.g to I?e~iree
: Sallee, elect~onic inf"rmation librarian for theWyo- '
, mingStateLibrary's Statewide Information Services.
· That expansion inchedesa new web site for the state
libraryathttp://wWw·ws1.state.wy.us/.
, In. rural state '-with a lot of open: spaces andapopu- '
, lation that is geographically reniote, the state Ji-"
" brary's new web server and web. pages are serving a
pivotal tole. They are helping. link: Wyominglibrar­:
ies arid cDmmuniti'es .t9geihet~ as well as/:stee~ing.- .
them to information availahl~ around the world.
1 Currently, 36 public and1academlc libraries and two
· speciailibrariesinWyominghave mternet access,
·Whi1elesstha~ 10 percent ofWy()ming libr;,.ries,
have home pages. The state plans to. connect two
• schoC!! libraries to the:Information Highway within
, the nexttw:o months ands~ve.llbranchlib~ariesby
the <ondof tlie year.
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Kansas + Colorado = Unified arid
Thriving Two·stateFirstSearch Project
By Sharon HofJhines
What do you get when you' add another state to an al~
ready successful statewide project? A unified, coopera-'
tive effort that brings even lower prices and greate(
benefits to all its participating libraries.
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That's the ~esult of an agreement signed in July by a '
consortium or Colorado libraries and the Kansas State
Library. The agreement, made through BCR, pro­vid~
s FirstSearch databases to hundreds of Kansas li­,
braries. The Kansas portion of the project,is being:
funded for a year by the Interlibrary Loa:,{ Develop­ment
Program and the cooperation of KansaS' 23
ILDP Resource Libra'ries with the option of continued
funding in thefuiure.·
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Steer State into Technology Age " BCR Internet Workshops in Fan
Kansas,~ CoJorado - Unified
and Thriving FirstSearch_Project
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