Member News Monteria Hightower begins work as the Nevada State Library and Archives administrator on May 3. She is a former Missouri State Librarian and regional administrator for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. Libraries throughout the BCR region were recognized in Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index as among the top 20 libraries in their categories. Johnson County (Kansas) Library, Denver Public Library and Boulder (Colorado) Public Library were in the top 20 in the over 100,000 population category. Population 10,000-99,999: Hays (Kansas) Public Library. Population 2,000-9,999: Conrad (Iowa) Public Library. Population under 2,000: Lynnville Public Library, Harpers Ferry Public Library and Union Public Library, all in Iowa. Colorado School of Mines was accepted to participate in OCLC's Enhance Program. Mines' librarians will be working on enhancing records in the Maps format. Topeka & Shawnee County (Kansas) Public Library has received a $225,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Western History/Genealogy Department of Denver Public Library has launched the web edition of its photography collection: gowest.coalliance.org. More than 50,000 historic photographs are displayed online, with more to be added this year. Davenport (Iowa) Public Library was written up in a recent newsletter published by Libraries for the Future. The article told about the library's program, "A Blast from the Past." U.S. West Foundation awarded Bemis (Colorado) Public Library a grant of $65,000 in training, hardware and supplies to establish a technology training center. Laramie County (Wyoming) Library System is one of 40 libraries in the nation selected to host the National Connections reading and discussion series for new adult readers. Kansas State Historical Society's World Wide Web site received the 1998 Marketing Award for Electronic Media from the Travel Industry Association of Kansas. ACLIN (Access Colorado Library & Information Network) was named by the Rocky Mountain News as one of the 100 Great Colorado Web Sites.