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Thursday, February 21, 2002
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/2706812.htm%20 Colleges to share virtual library - Small Appalachian schools pool resources By Roger Alford, ASSOCIATED PRESS PIPPA PASSES - Small colleges in central Appalachia are pooling their resources in an effort to create a virtual library that could rival large universities. "As small colleges, we don't have the largest budgets in the world," said Andrew Busroe, library director at tiny Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, which has 550 students. "There are some things that we have not been able to provide because of funding limitations." To change that, 33 private colleges in the mountains of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia have joined forces through the Appalachian Colleges Association. They're creating a central library to serve a combined 35,000 students. The combined library should be operating by Oct. 1....
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