All approved links will be organised by topic, using the universal library classification, to enable much more effective searches than ones based on a few keywords. The well-known Yahoo is a similar Internet scheme. This huge Finnish project will take tens of man-years to complete but, with several hundred library professionals working on it part time, it should be usable early in 1999. Computers are not new in libraries, and it is already several years since they began coming out from behind the counter for direct use by clients. Perhaps that number will be reached in a couple of years, but nobody doubts that there will still be queues.
Clients can take away their work on diskettes.