Statistics for May posted. (6/1/2000)

May 2000

New SIG: Prisms Humane Education jump word: 'prisms'. (5/25/2000)

This month celebrate Mother's Day and Memorial Day on the Holiday Homepages (5/4/2000)

Statistics for April posted. (5/1/2000)

April 2000

New SIG: Zonta International Distrcit 4 jump word: 'zonta'. (4/19/2000)

Shavu'ot, the Festival of Weeks, celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, and is also known as Hag Matan Torateinu - the Festival of the Giving of Our Torah. Learn more on the Holiday Homepages (4/12/2000)

Statistics for March posted. (4/6/2000)

Celebrate Passover and Easter on the Holiday Pages (4/1/2000)

March 2000

New SIG: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays jump word: 'pflag'. (3/15/2000)

WNY Information Center has been updated. Dead links removed and many new resources added. Visit it today! (3/3/2000)

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Holi, Hajj & Eid and Purim
on the Holiday Pages (3/4/2000)

Statistics for February posted. (3/1/2000)

February 2000

Statistics for January posted. (2/1/2000)

January 2000

Celebrate Valentine's Day, Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday
on the Holiday Pages (1/29/2000)

Statistics for December posted. (1/13/2000)

Happy New Year from the Buffalo Free-Net! (1/1/2000)

Special Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the Buffalo Free-Net is the recipient of two significant grants of financial support.

The School of Information and Library Studies at the University at Buffalo has generously underwritten a portion of the cost of our dial-in telephone lines, assuring the community, along with your continuing individual donation support, of dial-in access for the next year.

Subscribers to the Buffalo Free-Net (BFN) will be able to access their e-mail a little easier and faster now thanks to a $2000 Special Member Item Grant from Assemblyman Sam Hoyt.

With this funding the BFN will be able to upgrade their mail server and begin to provide WEB-based logins to e-mail. Western New Yorkers who do not own a computer can still have e-mail accounts by going to the public library, sitting at a computer and with one or two mouse clicks connect to their e-mail. Non-profit organizations can have free space on BFN's server for their web sites.

Assemblyman Hoyt said, "I recognize the importance of this great service to the community for accessing information. Upgrading this service enables Western New Yorkers, regardless of their socio-economic status, to access e-mail accounts and the Internet."

Dr. Neil Yerkey, President of the BFN accepted the grant and said, "This upgrade will allow people to access e-mail without having to dial into the BFN first." The BFN is staffed by volunteers and funded by community, corporate and individual donations.

The Western New York Library Resources Council in partnership with the State University of New York at Buffalo co-founded the Buffalo Free-Net in 1993 in order to offer free access to the Internet and serve as a WEB host to non-profit organizations. BFN's website is at www.bfn.org.

Tax deductible donations can be sent

c/o Western New York Library Resources Council
P.O. Box 400
Buffalo, NY 14225