Table of contents: issue24

Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

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Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

The conference was opened by Professor Maxwell Irvine, Chair of the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), who extended a familiar transport metaphor to talk of the route maps and driving instructors needed to ensure the effective use of the information superhighway, observing that the JISC's DNER (Distributed National Electronic Resource) can be seen as the "overall integrated transport policy". He went on to highlight the international collaboration and partnerships which will be needed to bring true coherence to networked information.

Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century

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Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

This article is supplementary to the issue 23 report on the CLUMPS event at Goldsmiths College in March this year, and perhaps should be read in conjunction with both that report and Peter Stubley's article on 'What have the CLUMPS ever done for us?' in the same issue. Details of presentations which were broadly similar to those given at Goldsmiths are not repeated here, but can be found in the Ariadne 23 report.

JASPER Further Education Meeting

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Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community.

The goal of this event was to introduce the operators of JISC services to the main bodies in Further Education (FE), and to discuss the issues which will be involved as JISC services are rolled out to FE sites. In addition to the delegates from JISC and JISC services, UKERNA and major national FE organisations (e.g. BECTa, FEDA and NILTA) were also represented.