The future prospects were carefully evaluated. She explained how the standardisation processes functions and thus came to the definition of the different encoding systems. The aims of this project are to develop a sharable resource discovery system, to fulfill the requirements of eLib subject based services, to involve information providers in resource description and to test emerging standards. Future prospects were included. The cost-effectiveness concept is introduced.
Distinction has to be made between standard services and value added services.
Cost studies reviewed furnish very different results for the same service in different institutions. She presented an overview of the 3 rd and 4 th framework program, with emphasis on the last. This furnishes some stimulating prospects for the future. Lively discussions emerged after most papers, if not spontaneous then provoked. A lot of experience gained in the library profession is not estimated at its real value, other parts are completely ignored.