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Co-East Seminar. 17 April 2000, British Library, St Pancras.
This is the last opportunity for registering for a seminar about an
innovative and imaginative new model for resource sharing developed by
library services in the East of England.
The Co-East project, funded by the DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge
Fund 1999/2000, uses Z39.50 and other standard protocols to demonstrate
connectivity and interoperability between three main public library
operating systems across six library authorities in the East of England.
Working in partnership, library authorities, library system suppliers,
content suppliers and an independent technical broker have brought together
all the library resources of the six authorities into a virtual private
network, accessible via web-based OPACs and the world wide web to all
library users in the region. The resources available to library users, on a
self service basis, include citizens' information databases, content
databases and over 2700 electronic journals. Many of these can be accessed
remotely from home, work place, school and community centre.
The Co-East partnerss are: Cambridgeshire County Council, Libraries and
Information Services; Chadwyck-Healey Ltd; DS Group; EBSCO Information
Services; epixtech (formerly Ameritech); Essex County Council Libraries and
Information Service; Fretwell-Downing Informatics Ltd; Geac Computers Ltd;
Peterborough City Council Libraries; Southend-on-Sea Borough Libraries;
Suffolk County Council Libraries & Heritage; Thurrock Council, Leisure,
Libraries and Cultural Services.
The seminar begins at 1pm and the programme includes presentations from all
the partners involved in the project, keynote speeches and a reception.
The cost is £40 (plus VAT) for the first delegate and £30 (plus VAT) for
each additional delegate.
Don't miss the opportunity to learn more about this ground breaking project
by registering for this seminar.
A registration form is available at the Co-East web site at
http://www.co-east.net or from Liz Brain, Co-East Regional Project Manager,
County Library, Northgate St Ipswich IP1 3DE Tel: 01473 583715 Fax: 01473
583700.
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