This is a new Internet Magazine for Librarians and Information Specialists. Volunteers will use a template creation form that deposits completed record in an in-progress database. OMNI staff will then check the records, and add indexing terms and classification numbers if necessary. It will be interesting to see how the scheme develops. Lesly is now fully booked until October, and has already run workshops for the Pilkington Library at Loughborough University of Technology, University of Bath Library and Coventry Business School.
Discussions are currently underway to arrange the technical details.
There is no live service as yet although the underlying structure for the service is falling into place and a pilot service for evaluation at selected test sites is planned for April 96. EEVL are currently using there own 'cut down' version of the IAFA template for resource description and are developing their own search engine and database management software. The aim is to investigate the issues surrounding the creation and development of significant multimedia information resources for research and teaching mounted on wide area computer networks. The lead institution is the University of Hertfordshire.