Hewlett Foundation Awards RLG $750,000.

The article reports that Research Libraries Group Inc. (RLG) has received $750,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help fund new RLG efforts to improve access to information that supports research and learning. The grant monies, referred to as an "enabling fund" by RLG, will be used over the next three years. This is the sixth grant the Hewlett Foundation has awarded RLG over the past 12 years, bringing the foundation's total contribution to RLG to $3.3 million. The Hewlett Foundation grant will be used for projects that support RLG's objectives for the 1990s. These objectives are: to support cooperative solutions among research libraries, archives, museums, and related repositories; to create an information delivery service capable of putting catalog, index, abstract, full-text, and image information directly into the hands of scholars and students; to manage coordinated preservation projects that extend models developed for the preservation of brittle paper materials to photographs and electronic media; and to develop a local computer system serving archives, museums, and related repositories, linked to an increasingly comprehensive database of primary cultural and scientific information.