NEWS FLASH

Michael A. Golrick (mgolrick@sclc.org)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:55:14 -0400 

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:55:14 -0400
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From: mgolrick@sclc.org (Michael A. Golrick)
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: NEWS FLASH

>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:49:02 -0500
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>Elizabeth has asked me to forward this message to the ALA Council on
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>TO:             ALA Executive Board
>
>FROM:           Elizabeth Martinez
>
>DATE:           June 23, 1997
>
>RE:             GATES LIBRARY FOUNDATION
>
>Tomorrow, June 24, the New York Times and the Washington Post will
>carry a story about the formation of the Gates Library Foundation, a
>non-profit organization which will provide public libraries in low-income
>communities with the computer equipment and technology required for
>community access to the Internet, as well as training for library
>personnel throughout the nation's 160,000 public libraries. The foundation
>is funded at $400,000,000.
>
>Bill and Melinda Gates have committed $200,000,000 in cash ,and
>Microsoft will match the Gates' cash gift with $200,000,000 in software
>and technology
>
>The Gates Library Foundation is a direct expansion of the Libraries
>Online! program launched with ALA in the fall of 1995.
>
>In March of 1996, I presented to Bill Gates a proposal, a millenium project
>called the Big Idea. The Big Idea was my plan to take the vision of ALA
>Goal 2000 and make it a reality, connecting all public libraries, training all
>library staff, and providing computer technology and Internet access to
>all communities.
>
>The Gates' gift to public libraries is a commitment to free and open
>access, to knowledge, ideas and information for all people in every
>community. It's ALA Goal 2000!
>
>A press release about the Gates Library Foundation is forthcoming. More
>information will be available at the ALA Annual Conference in San
>Francisco.
>
>

Michael A. Golrick         mgolrick@sclc.org
Southern Connecticut Library Council
voice: 203-288-5757
fax: 203-287-0757


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