Select a particular type/level/size of library and assess the utility of the following web-based services. Would it be economically feasible to subscribe to all--or most--of them at once. Is there any overlap in the information provided by these vendors. E-mail your comments to me at lis_fwh@shsu.edu.

Government Printing Office. GPO Access. www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs

Important U.S. government publications are available with full text and graphics. Databases include the Code of Federal Regulations, Commerce Business Daily, Congressional Bills, Congressional Record, Federal Register, GAO Reports, GILS Records/Privacy Act Notices, Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, Public Laws, and the U.S. Code.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online. http://gme.grolier.com

Featuring 11,000,000 words in 35,000 articles, with monthly article updates (web links on a continuous basis), the source includes close to 10,000 multimedia plug-ins. Sign up for a free trial at: http://gme.grolier.com/free.html

Management Dynamics. Bibliostat Connect. www.bibliostat.com

Bibliostat Connet facilitates the selection of specific libraries from alphabetical lists organized by state, or finding libraries similar to your own by accessing libraries accordig to category. You can then focus on the information that interests you in the following formats: raw numbers, ranks, percentiles, and standardized scores.

SIRS Electronic Reference Databases. www.sirs.com

The SIRS family of full-text databases includes: SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance (Current Perspectives on the Arts & Humanities), and SIRS Discoverer. The firm's most popular service, SIRS Researcher, provides thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues selected from 1,200 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications. It includes Boolean, field (author, title, etc.) and keyword access, the latter augmented by phrase and natural language searching, SIRS Discoverer is designed to develop research, reading, writing, language, and computer skills in young students.

H.W. Wilson. WilsonWeb. http://wilsonweb.hwwilson.com

WilsonWeb provides access to Wilson databases on the Internet, cluding Art Index, Wilson Biographies, Wilson Education Abstracts, Readers' Guide, Library Literature, Current Biography, Humanities Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, and Vertical File Index. Free 30-day trial subscriptions of the Wilson electronic databases are available on request.