QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London
Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 June 1997
JISC is the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the HEFCs (Higher Education Funding Councils) in the UK. It funds a number of national information services and initiatives which benefit the higher education and research community in the UK.
CNI, the Coalition for Networked Information was founded in March 1990 with a mission to help realize the promise of high performance networks and computers for the advancement of scholarship and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. The Coalition is a partnership of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE, and EDUCOM.
BLRIC is the British Library Research and Innovation Centre. It aims to promote, support, manage and disseminate high quality research, development and innovation in information, library and related fields. Its funds will be used to encourage progress in the library and information community, to evaluate the state of knowledge on issues of interest to that community, and to promote the significance of this work among the wider community including policy makers, business leaders and senior managers.
CAUSE has nearly 4,000 individual members and more than 1,300 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad are also members. CAUSE's mission is to be an indispensable partner in enabling the transformational changes occurring in higher education through the effective management and use of information resources - technology, services, and information.
CAUL, the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) has as its mission the advancement of teaching, learning and research through planned cooperative endeavours by Australian university libraries. CAUL provides a forum for discussion of issues relating to libraries and a mechanism for the coordination of activities which benefit the university community.
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