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State library database licensing, 1999

Please note that this chart is taken from the State Library Agencies Survey, FY 1999 (NCES, 2001). It does not include funds that were managed by other types of agency, such as the OhioLINK project in Ohio. It also does not include the $2,066,000 in federal LSTA funds being invested in the Empire Link project here in New York state now.

This chart shows the five leading states in terms of state library managed database licensing programs, and, for comparison, New York’s expenditures.

47 states had one form of statewide database licensing or another in 1999. The three states that didn’t were Alabama, California, and Minnesota, but I know that California and Alabama have been moving forward with projects since the FY99 survey. About three quarters of these projects are multi-type.