Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library

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CONTENTS

Introduction

The Sponsoring Organisations

Editor's Note
Marc Fresko

Welcoming Address
John Arbuthnott

The World of Information

The Dynamics of the Information Market
Peter Lyman

The Global Scholarly Information Infrastructure: The Quest for Sustainable Solutions
Neil McLean

The Information Professions and the Information Professional
Gerry Bernbom

Information Navigators: Future Professionals?
Judith Elkin

Dying for Information? A report on the Effects of Information Overload in the UK and Worldwide
Paul Waddington

Research and Development Programmes

Telematics for Libraries: Actions and Initiatives of the European Union
Patricia Manson

The Electronic Libraries Programme: Hybrid Libraries, Clumps and Preservation
Chris Rusbridge

Priorities for Digital Library Research: A View from the BLRIC
Graham Jefcoate

The Digital Library in Japan
Tamiko Matsumura

Beyond the British Library
David Inglis

Steps Towards a Digital Library
Werner Stephan

Information, Education and Learning

KEYNOTE PAPER: Information, Knowledge and Learning: The Library in the Digital Age
Michael Fitzgerald

KEYNOTE PAPER: Beyond Candle Factories: Higher Education in the Education Age
Donald Langenberg

Distributing the Library to the Learner
Peter Brophy

Re-engineering the Learning process
Ronald Watts

Measurement

Cost, Quality and Value: Assessing the Networked Information Value Chain at Indiana University
Christopher Peebles

CNI's "Assessing the Academic Networked Environment" Project: an Update
Joan Lippincott

Evaluation of the Electronic Libraries Programme
John Kelleher

Metadata

Metadata: a UK HE Perspective
Lorcan Dempsey

Metadata: moving from Planning to Implementation
Clifford Lynch

In the Company of Strangers: Challenges and Opportunities in Metadata Implementation
Maxine Brodie

Authentication

Progress in the US
Clifford Lynch

Progress in the UK
Norman Wiseman

Intellectual Property

Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights: an International update
Charles Oppenheim

Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
Graham Cornish

Recent U.S. Copyright Developments: A Brief Survey
Sarah Sully

Annexes

ANNEX 1: PROGRAMME

ANNEX 2: DELEGATES

ANNEX 3: GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS