AFRO-NETS> Interactive Knowledge Site - Fathom

[Dr Sigmund de Janos <dejanos@home.com>]

Interactive Knowledge Site - Fathom
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http://fathom.com

An international consortium of educational institutions, libraries and 
museums is launching an "interactive knowledge site" called Fathom:
http://fathom.com

On 3 April, the British Library <http://www.bl.uk>, Cambridge Univer-
sity Press <http://www.cambridge.org>, Columbia University 
<http://www.columbia.edu>, the London School of Economics and Political 
Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk>, the New York Public Library 
<http://www.nypl.org>, and The Smithsonian Institution's National Mu-
seum of Natural History <http://www.mnh.si.edu/>, announced that they 
would pool their resources to "present the best public content and 
courses of universities, libraries, and museums on a wide variety of 
professional, cultural, and academic subjects."

The fledgling site will allow visitors to search the content and 
courses of the participating members, to interact with faculty and cu-
rators through interviews, articles, lectures and discussion forums, 
and to learn through courses, CD-ROMs and textbooks.

For more information, visit the site or
mailto:info@fathom.com

Published in NETWORKING, April 5, 2000.

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Dr Sigmund de Janos
Senior Consultant
Tel: +1-613-731-3461
Fax: +1-613-731-3286
mailto:dejanos@home.com
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