 However it was a networking lunch hosted by David Nicholas, Senior lecturer at the then Polytechnic of North London, that proved to be the catalyst in bringing most of the London-based librarians together in the summer of 1986.Nicholas had been in contact with a range of people working in the media as part of a British Library-funded study into online information.The lunch provided the impetus for the new group with Sarah Adair, librarian at London Weekend Television (LWT), assuming a leading role.