EUROPEAN DOCUMENTATION CENTERS - THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UK INFORMATION RELAY

This paper traces the development of European Documentation Centres (E DCs) in the United Kingdom (UK). EDCs exist to serve the higher educat ion sector with European Union information, and date back about a quar ter of a century. Yet, until 1995 a basic document outlining what serv ices EDCs were to provide, and to whom they were to provide it was una vailable. As the European information world streamlines itself for the challenges of the millenium, the UK EDCs take their place alongside o ther EU information providers as part of the rapidly evolving network of information relays. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.