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partnerships with teachers and learning technologists and infiltrate their
networks. Chapter 1 showed how the library is no longer simply a
physical building – it is a vast collection of digital resources, many
accessible from the desktop, anywhere at any time. Librarians need to
ensure their place in the virtual world of learning is as central as it was
in the physical world.
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Notes
1.
See: http://www.elit-conf.org/
2.
See: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bigblue/index.htm
3.
Backed by the UK government with £55m funding, the UK e-Universities
(UKeU) were established to deliver online and worldwide the best degrees
and degree-level learning that UK universities can provide. In March 2004
the HEFCE announced the UKeU was to be disbanded.
4.
See: http://www.mmu.ac.uk/services/library/bbconnect/
5.
To view the archives of this list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/LIS-
INFOLITERACY.html 
6.
See: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/
7.
See: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/
8.
More information available at: http://www.alt.ac.uk/
9.
An up-to-date list of courses, workshops and conferences is available from:
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/tlig/courses.htm
10. See: http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/tlig/teach/elearning04.htm
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