²Throughout this Reply Comment, we use the term "public library systems" to refer to administrative entities comprising one or more public library facilities. A public library system may be a single library facility or a main library and branch libraries that are under a single administrative organization.

³Peter Young, Executive Director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, NCLIS public Library Survey Results 1996, py_nclis@inet.ed.gov (April 11, 1996).

⁴GOVERNMENTS DIVISION, BUREAU OF CENSUS FOR NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS, DIGEST OF EDUCATION STATISTICS: 1993 (1995)

⁵Young, supra note 2

⁶See Appendix B.

⁷Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. Docket No. UT-950200. p. 81 April 11, 1996.

⁸National Center for Education Statistics, Public Libraries in the United States: 1993, p. 70 (September, 1995)

⁹U.S. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE, KICKSTART INITIATIVE: CONNECTING AMERICA'S COMMUNITIES TO THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY P. 96 (1996)

¹⁰Colorado Department of Education, State Library and Adult Education Office Comments. CC Docket 96-45. p. 2. April 19, 1996.

¹¹Bureau of the census, Poverty Areas, http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/socdemo/www/povarea.html (May 2,1996)

¹²LEATHA LAMISON-WHITE, HOUSING AND HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS DIVISION, BUREAU OF CENSUS, All States Tracts With Poverty Rates of 20% or More. (forthcoming May 1, 1996).

¹³Alan L. Kaye,Director, Rodenbery Memorial Library, Cairo, Georgia, Rural Technology, akaye@mail.public.lib.ga.us, (April 11, 1996).

¹⁴Lincoln Trail Libraries System, Comments. CC Docket No. 96-45, p. 1 April 5, 1996.

¹⁵North of Boston Library Exchange, Inc. Comments. CC Docket No. 96-45. p. 2. April 4, 1996.

¹⁶Colorado Department of Education, State Library and Adult Education Office Comments. CC Docket No. 96-45. p. 2. April 19, 1996.

¹⁷Washington State Library Comments. CC Docket No. 96-45. p. 16. April 9, 1996.

¹⁸Id. at 17.

¹⁹Id. at 17.