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Re: Important Survey on the Future of E-Reference

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Heise)
Tue Mar 27 20:01:38 2001

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:55:10 -0500
From: Jennifer Heise <jahb@LEHIGH.EDU>
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> I don't recall in the information I read about this that there would be a
> charge for service.  This seems to be implied below in the requirements to
> participants.  Is this going to be another "non profit" service like OCLC
> only through LC?

It's now a joint project between OCLC and LC. *sigh* Which means that it
will probably be out of the financial reach of those who really need it,
because their libraries won't subscribe.
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