The MLA (the English one, not the US Medical Library Association) has just announced an "offer" to public libraries of a bundle of major electronic resources.
Public libraries will have to find the money to buy these, so it will be interesting to see how many take advantage of it. But it's a splendid collection and includes Grove Music Online , the Oxford English Dictionary and the Dictionary of National Biography
See their press release: Call to action for Public Libraries-Save time and money with Reference Online.
But in passing, why are MLA's URL's so convoluted? For example: http://www.mla.gov.uk/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=82&Document/@id=23868&Session/@id=D_K2vEpMYxNmalvvyTucD9&Section[@stateId_eq_left_hand_root]/@id=4289
Is it their content management system?
