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ECCC Library Will Benefit from Grant Funds

through the use or racstmtle machines which East Central should recetve •·very soon." ~he satd the project is divtded m– ~o three phases training. conver– s.on and shanng. The training phase will involve three statewide workshops in technology applications. Stage two involves converting periodical collections of each of the 31 main and branch libraries to a machine-readable format. Once the conversion is completed and distributed and fax machines are installed in all the librarjes, Mrs. Burkes said community and junior college students in Mississippi will have access to an almost unlimited information database. She said the long-range goal of the project is to tnclude the state's public libraries. university system and n>gtonal and national networks.

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