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Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (rly-yc03.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.35]) by air-yc05.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:18:24 -0400 Received: from dimon.rhi.hi.is (dimon.rhi.hi.is [130.208.165.10]) by rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:17:59 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dimon.rhi.hi.is (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.0) id LAA07249 for iasl-link-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:01:54 GMT Received: from [130.208.175.181] (odd01.rhi.hi.is [130.208.175.181]) by dimon.rhi.hi.is (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA07174 for <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:01:39 GMT X-Sender: [log in to unmask] Message-Id: <l03010d13b510d1067140@[130.208.175.181]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:17:01 +0000 To: [log in to unmask] From: Anne Clyde <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [IASL-LINK]: An Interneting International Project Sender: [log in to unmask] Precedence: bulk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Source: Edupage, 3 April 2000 PARTNERS IN EDUCATION AIM TO CREATE GLOBAL LIBRARY ON WEB Six prestigious educational institutions today will announce the formation of an Internet company called Fathom.com that will distribute information and offer online classes to users around the world. Fathom's founders include Columbia University, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the New York Public Library, the London School of Economics, Cambridge University Press, and the British Library. Over the next year the partners will invest $80 million in the company, which will charge for some of its offerings. Fathom will also provide some free content, and the partner's Academic Council will verify the integrity of the site's information. The partners believe Fathom will aid their goal of disseminating information widely, as the site aims to help users who are trying to further their education outside of the school environment. (Financial Times, 3 April 2000) ************************************************************** * Dr Anne Clyde, Professor Email: [log in to unmask] * * Faculty of Social Science Telephone: 354-525 4522 * * University of Iceland Fax: 354-552 6806 * * 101 Reykjavik, Iceland http://www.hi.is/~anne/ * * * * IASL Webmaster : http://www.hi.is/~anne/iasl.html * **************************************************************