Volume 1 • Number 1 April 2003 Subscribe, View PDF Welcome Introduction by Leo Voogt Features The Road from Library Consult to Library Connect Digital Libraries Symposium VI: Requirements for the Future Digital Library Elsevier at the American Libraries Association Elsevier's Strategic Partnership Program (SPP) Conducts First Strategic Partners Forum Center of Attention 15 Ways to Promote Effective Use of Online Resources Web Site Usability Review Five Quick Questions Recent Articles on Marketing and Usability Additional Reading and Resources On The Road On the Road with Library Connect: Calabasas, California, USA Policies in Action A Backfiles Access Solution between Elsevier and Nature Community Connections Upcoming Events The Elsevier Foundation: Giving with a Global Reach Investing in our Communities Grant to the University of Tilburg Mini-Poster Never Underestimate the Importance of a Librarian Contact Information Library Connect Editorial Office ELSEVIER 525 B Street, Suite 1900 San Diego, CA 92101, USA libraryconnect@elsevier.com

If Library Connect sounds familiar, you probably have heard of Library Consult, the quarterly newsletter which was first published in June 2000 by Elsevier's Regional Sales Organisation (RSO) in Asia Pacific to bring updated news on IT developments and trends to library IT professionals. In a continuous bid to contribute to the library community and increase customer satisfaction, the RSO started to contemplate on the possibility of tapping on Elsevier's expertise and resources to expand Library Consult into a series of initiatives to support librarians in the evolving library environment.

In November 2001, RSO Asia Pacific organised the first Library Consult seminars in Korea and Japan on the topic-"The Quest for SGML/XML, Metadata and In & Outward Linking-Electronic Publishing Developments at Elsevier Science." The audience appreciated the seminars for their informative nature and expressed their desires to attend more of such events over the usual user meetings which revolved around issues pertaining to sales and products. In August 2002, Library Consult returned to Korea and Japan in the form of a skill development workshop entitled "Digital Library Management for Tomorrow's Leaders" which was conducted by the renowned Netherlands' Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (TICER). The RSO also began to focus its sponsorship activities on events and initiatives that would help librarians keep up with current issues facing the library community such as the Consortium on Core Electronic Resources Meeting in Taiwan, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation IT Services Conference in Australia and the 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 2002 in Singapore.

Outside Asia Pacific, various divisions within Elsevier were in fact, engaged in many more other projects in support of the library community but without a common name. A core working group was thus formed in 2002 to bring the whole range of ongoing librarian community activities under a common umbrella in order to leverage resources and achieve the greatest impact on developing a global program. In order to retain the recognition of what we have built up in Asia Pacific and yet extend the scope of the program outside IT development issues, Library Connect was chosen as the new program name to represent all the supportive efforts that we will continue to bring to the library community globally.

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