From VINE to UKOLN — four months on…

With Rosemary Russell, the library systems specialist at the Library Information Technology Centre, taking over the VINE editorship for issue 94, VINE once again became an all LITC affair. Until taking up a new post at UKOLN earlier in 1995, she became adept at juggling VINE, consultancy contracts and other LITC projects, somehow managing to keep all airborne simultaneously! In her five issues she unravelled the mysteries of topics such as EDI, Z39.50 and electronic copyright as well as continuing the VINE tradition of reviewing new systems including Genesis, Calm 2000 and Innopac. In this article she looks at the current role and work of UKOLN.