Web-besed surveys are not new to the library environment. Although such surveys began as extensions of print surveys, the Web-based environment offers a number of approaches to conducting a survey that the print environment cannot duplicate easily. Since 1994, the author and others have conducted national surveys of public library Internet connectivity [1 - 10]. For the 1997 survey, the studies experimented with a Web-based survey that was implemented in conjunction with the printed survey form mailed to public libraries. Being new to the library community in general and the study in particular, fewer than 10 percent of responses made use of the Web survey, and, admittedly, the survey form was simply a Web-based version of the printed survey. Moreover, the experimental survey followed the same sampling strategies and was essentially a broadcast design approach; that is, all libraries received the same announcement indicating tha availability of the survey online as well.