Remembering history: The work of the Information Services Sub‐Committee of the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK

Abstract

Purpose

The paper seeks to record the work of the committee and its interaction with the much better known Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme. It also examines the principles that underlay the development of content acquisition and supporting infrastructure in UK university libraries in the 1990s.

Design/methodology/approach

A historical account of the development of nationally organised e‐services for higher education in the 1990s, based on personal recollection, committee minutes and contemporary reports.

Findings

Confirms the continuing relevance of principles established in that period.

Originality/value

Provides a record of previously undocumented work.

Citation

Law, D. (2006), "Remembering history: The work of the Information Services Sub‐Committee of the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 315-324. https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330610707890