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(a) "Board" means the State Library Board. (b) "Library Automation Grant" means support for a project or program which provides financial assistance to support the application of automation to the state's publicly supported libraries. (c) "Publicly supported libraries" means those libraries which are supported in whole, or in part, from local or state tax revenues. Such libraries include public, school, or public academic libraries, the State Library, state agency libraries, and Cooperating Library Service Units and automated networks of which the majority of members are publicly supported libraries. (d) "Allowable expenses" means consultant fees, travel, supplies, equipment purchase or rental and contractual agreements. (e) "Connlinet" means the Connecticut Library Information Network. (f) "Connlinet Council" means advisory council which has been established to advise the State Library Board on the distribution of library automation grants. (g) "Project grants" means competitive grants that are made available to publicly supported libraries to support the purposes of the library automation program. (h) "Special program grants" means funds which are granted by the State Library Board for automation to support a specific program need. (i) "Connecticut Library Information Network" means a cooperative multitype and multipurpose network which is designed to provide a broad range of library and information resources and services to all citizens of Connecticut. (j) "Network Components" means the users of any participating library who wish to obtain information and/or services found not only in that participating library, but in other participating libraries or information services. Members of Connlinet are those libraries and organizations that voluntarily agree to become participants in the Connecticut Library Information Network and either offer their users Connlinet programs and services or furnish network services that facilitate the interchange of bibliographic information, library materials, and information services.