In the straw poll, Steve Dietz asked "If ordering works for local delivery, how does this relate to providing the 'Library' periodically?

   In MESL the whole 'Library' was provided to each university to mount on their campus network, but in a full blown licensing scheme, with hundreds of thousands of works it is highly unlikely each campus will do so.

Several scenarios are possible: 1) a licensee (with rights to the whole library) could in fact mount the whole thing for the license period as they did with MESL 2) a licensee (with rights....) could load portions based on pre-defined content groupings made by AMICO for convenience of it s licensees - Ancient World, Renaissance, Contemporary, etc... 3) a licensee (with...) could allow individual faculty or students to select works required for specvific purposes from the AMICO library from the AMICO server by searching its catalog. An additional charge (not for licensing, but for accessing and downloading) is anticipated here aftyer some agreed upon number of requests per year.

   A BETTER YET scenario is that under Internet II the universities would mount the library on a shared server which they would then use remotely as if it was on their campus. One copy, very high speed networking, investment in common search facilities, etc. But this awaits the development of InternetII.

David