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These pages are no longer current. They provide historical information on an unsuccessful bid to the Millennium Commission made by "Information for All" in 1996/97.

"Information for All" was a not-for-profit company set up by the Library and Information Commission and the Library Association with the aim of finding ways to fund a national programme for the networking of 4,000 public libraries in the UK. See: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/public-libraries/

The People's Network Project is the lottery-funded project (New Opportunities Fund) which has connected all public libraries to the Internet, as part of the Government's commitment to give everyone in the UK the opportunity to get online. The project is managed by Re:source and more than 4000 library centres have been created through the initiative. [11-02-2003]

Information for All seeks to provide Internet access for every public library the length and breadth of the UK

Latest - 15th October 1997

The Library and Information Commission has just published a report, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, on the networking of public libraries. It was researched and produced by a specially convened working group chaired by Matthew Evans. The full text of this report is available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/newlibrary/

Information for All has recently reviewed the circumstances of its Bid for Millennium funding. Although it regrets a failed opportunity to rise to the challenge of re-engineering the public library service in the UK (see IfA's reaction), it is pleased that the work it has done will be used as the basis of the new Working Group established by the Department of National Heritage, led by Matthew Evans of the Library and Information Commission. As this group is expected to report in after July, after the election of a new national government, the board of IfA will meet in the early Autumn to consider its position, and any future role it may have in pursuing the development of networked information services.

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