UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib)

• There are online working papers
• It is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
• It is based on the Libraries Review by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils, chaired by Professor Sir Brian Follett in 1993. They prepared the Joint Funding Council's Libraries Review Group Report, Prof. Sir Brian Follett, HEFCE, 1993.
• As a response, JISC started eLib with 15 million pounds over 3 years, to engage the Higher Education community in developing and shaping the implementation of the electronic library.
• There have been 2 separate calls and over 60 projects in areas:
  • access to network resources
  • digitisation
  • document delivery
  • electronic journals
  • electronic short loan collections
  • images
  • on demand publishing
  • pre-prints and grey literature
  • quality assurance
  • supporting studies
  • training and awareness
• One part is the Arts and Humanities Data Service and its service for the Visual Arts.
• On preservation, a workshop was held, with report Long Term Preservation of Electronic Materials: a JISC/British Library workshop as part of the Electronic Libraries Programme, Organised by UKOLN, 27-28 November 1995, U. of Warwick, prepared by the Mark Fresko Consultancy, 1995, also available online .
• Ariadne is an eLib ejournal providing current information on eLib and digital libraries in general.