At 10:30 AM 1998/05/01, Sean Dunne wrote:
>The Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education
>Funding Councils has appointed a consortium of Swets & Zeitlinger
...
> Managing Agent
>for the UK National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI),
>subject to the completion of formal contracts.
>From the safety of Australia I amd reminded of the adage of putting the fox
in charge of the henhouse.
But perhaps I am harsh. There seems to be evolving an industry of
information aggregators which can provide efficient access to groups of
diverse networked information resources. At the moment they are using
libraries as the conduit to reach the end user of the services.
But will that model last? Direct services to end users bypassing libraries
must be an attractive option.
Tony
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