Learning the hard way: a public library's experience with CD‐ROM Available to Purchase

At the library in Åkersberga, 35 km north of Stockholm, a project is underway to acquaint the local people with recent developments in information technology. Åkersberga is a town with 26,000 inhabitants, most of them commuters. There are 11 primary schools, and one high school with 1200 pupils. Many of the schools generally use the public library as their school library, and this has had some influence on the CD‐ROM project which has been running at the public library since January 1989.