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In my own library I have not had to write any requisitions EVER that were to drain down Federal Funds. Back in the 1960's I was busy spending Federal Funds all the time. Perhaps I could make the mistake I read a few minutes ago of saying that I had had no Federal Funds for the longest of times. But I am a resident of Maryland and I know exactly what has happened to a lot of our Federal Funds in the past few years. Instead of them being spent in small amounts library by library our money has been pooled and has setup and developed what may just be the best new Gopher in the USA SAILOR. This Gopher is available free for every citizen of the state of Maryland. All of us will have a free local phone call to SAILOR by the end of 1995. Currently a large number of our counties are "up" and on SAILOR with local phone banks in our public libraries. Some of our public libraries will be offering (for fee) E-Mail addresses and full Internet accounts. But the most important part is that this project is making access to the Internet and to all of our public library catalogs, community bulletin boards, local governmental information, etc. freely available to ALL the citizens of our state. This is such an exciting project!!! So I know exactly why we need to work to continue Federal Funds. Perhaps, if you think you have not benefited from Federal Funds you should check in the greater library community not merely in your own library to see if there has been Federal support for libraries recently. I would REALLY be glad to see Federal Funds available on the level that they were in the 1960's so that our school library/media specialists would again be as busy as I was in those days-barely able to even write the requisitions fast enough to draw down the funds. But in the mean time, I hope we will all support any efforts ALA and others attempt to keep those funds coming at least at current levels. By the way, why don't you all telnet to our very close to perfect (how is that for bragging?) Gopher. It isn't all it will be, but it certainly is marvelous for a brand new baby. Sailor.lib.md.us Nancy JP Lively Anne Arundel County Public Schools Professional Library 2644 Riva Road Annapolis, MD. 21401 (410) 222-5273 V or TTY (410) 222-5065 FAX nlively@umd5.umd.edu