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Journal ArticleDOI
01 Jan 1990-Vine
TL;DR: The following article describes the published studies undertaken principally in the preparatory stages, prior to the definition of the Plan, aimed at stimulating cost‐effective cooperation between libraries in the EC to the benefit of users.
Abstract: [The following article is the first of a pair of articles on the activities recently undertaken by the Commission of the European Communities in the field of libraries. Readers will no doubt be aware that a Plan of Action for Libraries in Europe is proposed, aimed at stimulating cost‐effective cooperation between libraries in the EC to the benefit of users, through the appropriate and efficient application of new information technologies. The following article describes the published studies undertaken principally in the preparatory stages, prior to the definition of the Plan. A future article will describe briefly the Plan itself and give an overview of current actions and projects. These artices are the first of what will be a continuing ‘European’ focus in VINE, covering not only the activities arising out of the Plan of Action but relevant automation developments in libraries in Europe. Ed.]

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Journal ArticleDOI
01 Jan 1990-Vine
TL;DR: The growth of online use in the publicly‐funded sector has been small, as can be judged by the relatively low levels of expenditure involved.
Abstract: Future historians, using the documentary evidence remaining, might well be excused for believing that online searching was a major activity in libraries and information services in the 1970s and 80s. The publication of several professional journals and the proceedings of regular, well‐attended conferences entirely devoted to the topic would suggest such a conclusion. In reality, the growth of online use in the publicly‐funded sector has been small, as can be judged by the relatively low levels of expenditure involved. For public libraries it has been estimated that spending on online services has been of the order of 0.1% of the total budgets. The average online expenditure of British universities has been about what it costs to employ one member of secretarial staff each.