Abstract
JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee, was started in 1993 to serve the needs of the newly expanded UK Higher Education (HE) sector. This article describes how JISC supported the universities' information needs by exploiting the potential of IT, and the internet in particular. The author concludes that the impact of the e-Lib programme – the largest innovation programme that JISC managed in its first years and which was chaired by Brindley – on UK Higher Education and the UK library profession was considerable and it had significant impact on the UK academic libraries by affecting a major culture change. Brindley was very influential within the JISC. JISC owes much of its success to the early work of the 1990s and Lynne Brindley's dedication and visionary inspiration during this time.
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