
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 25, 1995                   TAG: 9510250052
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-12   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

LIBRARY OFFERING WEB-PAGE CLASS

Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library officials will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. tonight to explain the new program to give nonprofit groups free access to the Internet's World Wide Web.

The meeting, open to all such groups in the New River Valley, will be held in the Christiansburg branch library at 125 Sheltman St.

This summer the library received a powerful server through Apple Computer Inc's "Library of Tomorrow" grant program that civic groups may use to construct their own "home pages" on the World Wide Web, a fast-growing part of the Internet that allows for fast and easy access to graphical images and text.

The home pages serve as a type of bulletin board, where groups can post their information, and Internet users can stop in for a look-see.

"What we're doing is opening up the web space to any nonprofit group in the New River Valley," explained Steve Helm, the library's computer specialist. Special-interest groups, civic groups and churches are invited. "We want it totally diverse and pluralistic," Helm said.

by CNB