================================================================= ALAWON Volume 6, Number 46 ISSN 1069-7799 June 9, 1997 American Library Association Washington Office Newsline In this issue: (93 lines) VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES NEW CONNECTIONS TO HIGH-SPEED NETWORK _________________________________________________________________ VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES NEW CONNECTIONS TO HIGH-SPEED NETWORK According to a (5/20) White House press release, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding $12.3 million in grants to 35 research institutions across the United States to allow them to connect to the very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS), bringing the total number of research institutions connected to vBNS to 64. The new grants move the nation one step closer to a newer, high-speed version of the Internet, the global network of computer networks, according to the NSF. NSF's high-performance connections to the vBNS will play a central role in achieving a major goal of the Clinton Administration's "Next Generation Internet" initiative by linking roughly 100 leading universities and their research partners. The network will facilitate the joint development of software applications and communications technologies for the Internet of the future. Below is the list of institutions receiving the latest round of NSF grants to connect to the very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS). Dartmouth College Georgia State University Harvard University Indiana University at Bloomington Johns Hopkins University Massachusetts Institute of Technology MCNC (includes Duke University; North Carolina State University; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center) Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Texas A&M University (also includes the Institute for Biosciences and Technology at Houston) The Regents of the University of California for the Consortium for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC). Includes University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Riverside, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz; and the following private institutions: Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California (USC) and USC's Information Sciences Institute University of Arizona University of Kentucky University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of New Mexico University of Notre Dame University of Tennessee-Knoxville University of Texas at Austin University of Utah University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University Yale University For more information about NGI, visit http://www.ngi.gov. A copy of the NSF press release is at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/pr9739/pr9739.txt. _________________________________________________________________ ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc @ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. Visit our Web site at http://www.alawash.org. ALA Washington Office 202.628.8410 (V) 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #403 202.628.8419 (F) Washington, DC 20004-1701 800.941.8478 (V) Lynne E. Bradley, Editor Deirdre Herman, Managing Editor Contributors: Carol C. Henderson Rick Weingarten Claudette Tennant All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. =================================================================