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The article reports on the participation of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Library and School of Information and Library Science in the Open Content Alliance (OCA). OCA is a group of international organizations that are constructing a permanent archive of digitized text and multimedia materials on the Web. The school is the first from a university to join the alliance, and the library is the first library to contribute manuscript materials. And collections included in the archive are freely available for access and reuse.

Reports that the WiderNet Project of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, has completed the 50th installation of its eGranary Digital Library, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Digital library's provision of Internet resources offline to institutions in developing countries lacking adequate Internet access; Authors and publishers who have granted permission to distribute their works via the eGranary.