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New UK electronic newsletter on CD-ROM Networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (GARTNER%VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK@RICEVM1.R)
Mon May 11 11:58:33 1992
Date: Mon, 11 May 1992 10:40:55 CDT
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CD-NET NEWS
A new electronic newsletter on CD-ROM Networking
produced by UK CD-ROM Steering Committee
The first issue of this new quarterly electronic publication will be available
on May 15th: it will be distributed to the CD-ROM-NETWORK @ UK.AC.JNT and
CDROMLAN @ IDBSU mailing lists, and archive copies will be kept on the LIBSOFT
archive at HYDRA.UWO.CA (filename for issue 1 will be CDNETNEWS1.TXT).
CD-ROM technology has been one of the most significant developments to impact
on libraries in the last decade. In the UK, the Joint Network Team (JNT) which
oversees the JANET network recognised the networking implications of CD-ROM and
set up a Steering Group to advise them. This Group, which is made up of
librarians/information professionals and Computer Centre staff has as its brief
to "focus on networked information services provision within academic
communities at an institutional level, paying particular attention to the
integration of CD-ROM".
One specific aim of the Group is to encourage an exchange of information within
the profession on all aspects of CD networking: it was for this reason that
CD-NET NEWS has been started. The intention is to present case studies from
world-wide sites which will help those institutions thinking of implementing a
network, thus eliminating duplication of effort. It also intends to highlight
new developments in the market, giving practical evaluation wherever possible.
Comments on and items for inclusion in CD-NET NEWS are very welcome: please
direct them to one of the editors listed below. Any archive sites or
distribution lists wishing to receive copies, please contact Richard Gartner
at the address given below.
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CD-NET NEWS is produced by the UK's CD-ROM Networking Steering Group: its
editorial board comprises:-
- Richard Gartner, Bodleian Library, Oxford, OX1 3BG UK
Tel: +44 865 277060 Email: GARTNER@UK.AC.OX.VAX
- Michele Shoebridge, Main Library, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,Birmingham, B15 2TT UK Tel: +44 21 414 5835
Email: M.I.SHOEBRIDGE@UK.AC.BHAM
- Doug Moncur, Computing Service, University of York,
Heslington, York YO1 5DD UK Tel: +44 904 433815 Email:
D.MONCUR@UK.AC.YORK
- Paul Leman, Computing Service, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, UK Email: CS1PJL@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA
