TAPin (Training and Awareness Programme in Networks) was an eLib project which ran from 1995 to 1998. Its aim was to provide planned, targeted support in using networked resources to academic staff in Education, Law, and Life Sciences in six West Midland universities. The support was delivered by subject librarians using a model agreed by all participating institutions. Initial training was provided for these librarians, some by other eLib projects. The effects of the project were examined in an impact study, which repeated audits of network infrastructure, and of certain characteristics of academic staff and librarians carried out at the project's inception. Particular attention is given in this article to the impact of the project in respect of networked resources on academic staff attitudes and behaviour; on library and information staff perceptions and behaviour, and on library and information services themselves. The importance of cultural factors in successful institutional exploitation of networked information emerged throughout the audit data.
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