Staff is writing a proposal supporting Find-It Consumer to Qwest for some of the money they are offering for telecommunications projects. Steering Committee has met twice. They will be doing a general needs assessment by surveying libraries. Not sure at this point whether the next phase will result in grant cycle, or establishment of some sort of service center with distributed collections, processing of language materials center, etc. The committee has contacted other states to see what they're doing.
Some states have very advanced programs, others less so.
Without some continuing state funding for libraries, it makes it much more difficult to plan any ongoing program. Health information could be an important area of collaboration. Recruitment of diverse library staff is a continuing problem for libraries. Training sessions are complete as of today. Training sessions have been very good.