October 13, 2000

U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Receives $4-Million for Digital Library

By FLORENCE OLSEN

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's MetaLab, one of the busiest digital libraries on the Internet, last month received a $4-million gift and a new name, ibiblio.org. Its benefactor says the gift will help the site develop its unique character as "the public library of the Internet."

The Red Hat Center, a private foundation in Durham, N.C., made the gift and announced a five-year joint project with the university to expand ibiblio. Robert Young,

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