Thus this section now includes all Media Releases and a Research and Reports subsection. The Provider Information currently contains only the provider agreement, but will expand in the near future. There were two pages of information that were of relevance to all three sections, being contact information and a list of OLA's provider institutions. These pages therefore have links from all three areas of information as well as from the What's New page. The OLA web site is constantly evolving, and new materials and resources will be progressively developed and added.
Several projects are currently in development.
3.1 Discussion Forum A discussion forum for OLA students will be introduced so that they are able to communicate with each other regarding problems, study techniques and general information-sharing. There was no way for OLA to guarantee that all students with Internet connection would have access to the newsgroup through their server. Using a Listserver was also dismissed as it could potentially result in students receiving hundreds of email messages each week. This might deter students from signing up as many would only be interested in occasionally reading a few of the messages. This forum would allow students to pick and choose, downloading only those messages they wanted to read rather than having to wade through countless emails every day.