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Offers news briefs pertaining to libraries in the United States. Details of documents and books about the Civil War being stolen from the Vermont Department of Libraries in Montpelier; Selection of directors for the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Change of name for the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee to the School of Information Studies; Others.

The article discusses the Vermont FiberConnect Project, an initiative of the Vermont Telecommunications Authority and Sovernet Communications that will bring gigabit Internet service to 43 of the state's rural libraries. Terms negotiated with Sovernet by the Vermont Department of Libraries enable some of the participating libraries to pay as little as $60 per month for the service.

Reports that Vermont's Department of Libraries has assumed total responsibility for providing service to the handicapped statewide via a Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Circulation of talking books, disc records, cassette tapes, large print books and periodicals; Contact information.

Discusses the series `Beginning with Mother Goose,' part of an initiative to create a literate community in Vermont by the year 2000. Vermont Center for the Book; Vermont Department of Libraries; Includes an excerpt by Morgan Coutts Irons from the fall 1994 newsletter of the Vermont Council on the Humanities.