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British to Develop Electronic SuperlibraryThe British government signed a contract with MCI WorldCom June 19 for development of an electronic superlibrary that will link the libraries in more than 700 institutions of higher education and give Britain’s students access to thousands of scholarly works. The high-speed SuperJANET (Joint Academic Network) 4 will eventually be accessible through more than 100,000 computer terminals, Reuters reported June 20. Britain’s Higher Education Funding Councils have allocated about £50 million ($76 million U.S.) to the program for a three-year period that ends in March 2002. The funding will be used in part to cover the cost of building the SuperJANET 4 backbone and regional network infrastructures. Minister for Learning and Technology Michael Wills said SuperJANET 4 will help eliminate the gap between the haves and the have-nots in the Internet Age. “It will provide students, wherever they are, with access at a single instant to a vast electronic library,” Wills said. Posted June 26, 2000. |
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