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Peter Morville, Larry Coppard, Debbie Kroopkin, Don Austin, and Tom Jenkins of Metro Detroit Comnet served as our "user group" and made numerous suggestions of subject areas that would be useful to include in such a guide. Metro Detroit Comnet is a computer-based communication, conferencing, training, and information-sharing system serving public service organizations in metro Detroit. More information on Comnet can be found on the Internet via their new Web home page. Munn Heydorn's guide for not-for-profits (mentioned earlier) provided us with additional ideas on useful lists and sites. Lou Rosenfeld and other members of the Internet Resource Discovery Project at the University of Michigan contributed numerous ideas as to the organization of resource guides for the Clearinghouse. Last but not least, we would like to thank the many individuals on the Internet (past, present, and future) who have encouraged us in this endeavor and continue to suggest useful resources.
Thanks also to Matthew Newell (mnewell@gatecoms.gatecom.com) for taking on the thankless job of reformatting the printed version of this guide.
We welcome comments and suggestions for further versions of this guide. Please feel free to e-mail us at public-services@umich.edu with your comments or suggestions.