INTRODUCTION

The main publication of the Multimedia Information and Technology Group is its quarterly journal "Multimedia information and technology (MmIT)" (the result of a merging of "The Audiovisual Librarian: multimedia information" and "ITs News" in 1998). The full journal is freely available to all members via the Internet. If members also require paper copies of the full journal, these are available in return for a contribution to the printing and distribution costs, currently pegged at one fifth of the full subscription rate. The full journal has 300 additional subscribers in some 50 countries and has a circulation of 8,300 copies each issue.

MmIT contains regular sections covering diary, news, technology, and publications; reviews of books and multimedia; a useful bibliographic update; reports of conferences; a resume of technical developments likely to have implications for libraries and information services; and a range of articles.