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Subject: Happy 2009 from ibiblio

I'm jumping in between Christmas and New Year's to thank you for your
contributions to ibiblio and for your support in the past year.

We've had a period a great growth over the past few years especially
as seen here:

2002                    2006                    2008
800 Collections         1600+ Collections       2500+ Collections
3 million ftp+www/day   15+ million             16+ million ftp+www/day
1 terabyte of data      8 terabytes of data     13 terabytes of data
1 large server          22 www/vhost servers    25 www/vhost servers
2 database servers      5 database servers      7 database servers
4 radio stations        6 radio stations        6 radio stations

In fact, the 2008 figures were taken at mid-year and we've grown since then!

ibiblio is lways eclectic as our newest contributors, The African
Elephant Experts Group
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.african-elephant.net%2F and
Pachyderm - the Journal of the African Elephant, African Rhino and
Asia Rhino Specialist Groups
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.pachydermjournal.org%2Findex.php%2Fpachy%2Fissue%2Fcurrent%2FshowToc
show.

We, you and ibiblio, offer granular bits of everything to everybody in
the world; that is our strength and your gifts, a combined
independently managed set of miscellanies for a loosely connected
world.

At the same time, we face new challenges. Some are obvious; the
economy and budgets everywhere have taken a nosedive since September
of this year. Some are less so; we will have a new Dean (the search is
just opened at the School of Information and Library Science) and a
new Chancellor at UNC (Holden Thorp who does understand what ibiblio
is about, but will be feeling budget pressures immediately).

Much of our ability to support you comes from your support of ibiblio.
That need not be in for form of money, which is of course always
welcomed and encouraged; it could be in the form of thanking UNC and
NC officials for ibiblio services and for the university's support of
ibiblio.

Thanks for your part of making ibiblio wonderful for over 16 years and
happy 2009.

Paul