LSTA Funding Anywhere-Anytime Library

Dateline -- Tampa

Tampa Bay Library Consortium today announced the receipt of $225,000 for the prototype project Anywhere-Anytime Library. This project will allow any authorized library patron with World wide Web access to search select databases, and a designed group of cooperating libraries' holdings. Patrons will be able to select and place interlibrary loan requests for both books and journals from the same web-based search menu.

TBLC was founded in 1979 and serves 78 libraries in 12 counties in West Central Florida. TBLC member libraries are "dedicated to promoting and coordinating the sharing of materials among public, academic, school, and special libraries." TBLC provides training and continuing education, technical support and the SUNLINE database, a shared library automation system.