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This page leads to a report on the conference entitled Networked Information in an International Context, which was held at Heathrow, UK, on 9th/10th February 1996. The conference was organised by UKOLN in association with The British Library Research and Development Department, CNI, CAUSE and JISC.

From this page you can download the entire report (297 kB, roughly 114 pages if printed in 12 point Times or similar) or read/download the detailed accounts of individual presentations which make up the complete report.

The main part of the conference consisted of 18 formal presentations (see Annex 1 for the complete programme). Four were on general topics, giving perspectives of some important developments in the UK and the complex and changing cost modelling issues which concern us all. The other presentations described a varied sample of specific projects. The projects cover a range of subjects; they are grouped under the following five headings:

the development of electronic journals (exploring the multitude of cost, technical and organisational questions they raise)
teaching and learning initiatives (demonstrating some of the approaches which can be used inside and outside the academic community)
management and service issues (exploring the relationships between information science and other disciplines, and describing an adventurous proposition for new services)
networked information discovery and retrieval issues (examples of projects in implementation and research on futures and trends)
specific technical concerns (describing a novel model for networked scholarly communication, and, in complete contrast, explaining how networked information can encompass administrative systems)

Download the whole report in Word 6 or HTML format,

or select an inidvidual paper from the contents as listed below:

INTRODUCTION

THE SPONSORING ORGANISATIONS
SUMMARY: Marc Fresko Principal, The Marc Fresko Consultancy

PRESENTATIONS

UNIVERSITIES LIBRARIES REVIEW GROUP, TWO YEARS ON: ACHIEVEMENTS, PLANS AND PROBLEMS: Sir Brian Follett Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick
THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND NETWORKING RESEARCH: Terry Cannon Assistant Director, The British Library Research and Development Department
BUILDING THE DIGITAL LIBRARY: John Mahoney Director of Computing and Telecommunications, the British Library
CHANGING COSTS OF INFORMATION IN THE NETWORKED WORLD: Richard West Vice-Chancellor, California State University

PROJECT BRIEFINGS

Electronic Journals

THE CLIC ELECTRONIC JOURNAL PROJECT: Henry Rzepa CLIC Project Director, Imperial College, UK
INTERNET ARCHAEOLOGY: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES AND USING THE OPPORTUNITIES: Seamus Ross Assistant Secretary (Information Technology), The British Academy
FROM EPHEMERAL TO INTEGRAL: COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: Barbara McFadden Allen Director, CIC Center for Library Initiatives

Teaching and Learning

NEW LEARNING COMMUNITIES IN THE NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT: Jana Bradley Assistant Professor, Indiana University - Purdue University of Indiana
TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LANGUAGE LEARNING: A CONSORTIUM APPROACH: Graham Chesters TELL Consortium, University of Hull
IT POINT: NETWORKING IN THE COMMUNITY: Gulshan Kayam IT POINT Manager and Sue Turner Library Manager, Chelmsley Wood Library

Management and Service Issues

COLLABORATION: PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS: Joan Lippincott Assistant Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
INFORMATION SERVICES: THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY?: Richard Field Vice-Principal for Academic Services and Information Strategy, University of Edinburgh
EMPOWERING THE MILLENNIUM CITIZEN: PUBLIC LIBRARY NETWORKING INITIATIVES - THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MILLENNIUM PROJECT AND PROJECT EARL: Philippa Dobson Public Libraries Network Adviser, LA/EARL/UKOLN

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval

THE SUBJECT APPROACH TO NETWORK NAVIGATION: Nicky Ferguson Project Director, SOSIG
RESOURCE ORGANISATION AND DISCOVERY: Lorcan Dempsey Director, UKOLN
A SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS OF CNI’S NIDR RESEARCH INITIATIVE: Clifford Lynch Director, Library Automation, University of California

Technical issues

ELECTRONIC SUPPORT FOR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: DEVELOPING AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY: Dov Gabbay Imperial College, London and Jürgen Ohlbach Max Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING MEETS THE WEB: DISCOVER THE POSSIBILITIES: David Koehler Director of Distributed Management Systems, Princeton University

ANNEXES

ANNEX 1: PROGRAMME
ANNEX 2: DELEGATES
ANNEX 3: GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS AND TERMS

British Library R&D Report 6250
© The British Library Board 1996
© Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Bodies 1996

The opinions expressed in this report are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the sponsoring organisations.

RDD/C/187

The primary publication medium for this report is via the Internet at URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/rdr6250/
It may also be purchased as photocopies or microfiche from the British Thesis Service, British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ.

This report of the conference was prepared by The Marc Fresko Consultancy Telephone +44 181 645 0080 E-mail marc@easynet.co.uk

Converted to HTML by Isobel Stark of UKOLN, July 1996

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