LII is now administered by IPL

This week the editors received a press release announcing LII’s merger with the Internet Public Library (IPL). IPL is a huge and wonderful Web portal hosted by Drexel University and maintained by a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science. It has solid funding and a paid staff augmented by graduate students in library and information studies programs, allowing it to maintain and improve the database’s content and aesthetics with new skills and technical tools.

As you may know, in the last two years LII’s funding was cut by 50%. Consequently, we had to reduce the number of sites we add each week, halt improvements to the browsing structure, and generally do less of everything. IPL will give LII’s years of work continued life and value and we think they’ll do a terrific job.

Source: Tip of the Week, Librarians’ Internet Index

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