The Purpose of the Study The purpose of LRS's study was threefold: 1 identify the proportion of public libraries in the U.S. that were adopting a specific set of web technologies, 2 determine how these libraries differed from their peers, and 3 attempt to determine whether the early adoption of web technologies can help drive library success, as defined by traditional statistical measures of public library achievement. [...] only 73% of the libraries in this population group had a website that we were able to locate, and fewer than half of them provided access to their online catalogs.