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• Editorial Introduction to Issue 71

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.

• Developing a Prototype Library WebApp for Mobile Devices

  Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the development of a prototype WebApp to improve access to Library systems at Loughborough University for mobile devices.

• Implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System

  Gary Brewerton takes us step by step through the various stages of implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System for your institution.

• Improving Evaluation of Resources through Injected Feedback Surveys

  Terry Reese suggests a novel approach for providing intercept survey functionality for librarians looking to simplify the gathering of user feedback for library-provided materials.

• The Wellcome Library, Digital

  Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.

• Hydra UK: Flexible Repository Solutions to Meet Varied Needs

  Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.

• SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP

  Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service.

• The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent

  Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69.

• Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme

  Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.

• Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System

  Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012.

• Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath

  Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.

• Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System

  Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems.

• eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments

  Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011.

• Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment

  Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP).

• MyMobileBristol

  Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

• 10 Years of Zetoc

  Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service.

• International Digital Curation Conference 2010

  Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago.

• Europeana Open Culture 2010

  David Fuegi and Monika Segbert-Elbert report on the annual Europeana Conference, held at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam in October 2010.

• Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment

  Brian Westra describes a data services needs assessment for science research staff at the University of Oregon.

• Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE

  Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development.

• Turning on the Lights for the User: NISO Discovery to Delivery Forum

  Laura Akerman and Kim Durante report on Discovery to Delivery, Creating a First-Class User Experience, a NISO Forum on today's information seekers and current standards developments held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

• Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London

  Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library

  Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue.

• Eduserv Symposium 2009: Evolution Or Revolution: The Future of Identity and Access Management for Research

  Shirley Williams reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme investigate the intersection between identity management, access management and scholarly research collaboration across institutional and geographic boundaries.

• SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York

  Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York.

• Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative

  Ann Borda reports on the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI).

• Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers

  Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.

• Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia

  Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides

  Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.

• Book Review: Digital Copyright

  Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for Day-to-day Use

  Richard Green and Chris Awre describe work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart of its personalised digital repository provision.

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

  Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

• DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe

  Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository

  David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF.

• Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries

  Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries.

• Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University

  Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• JASIG June 2007 Conference

  Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007.

• Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project

  Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51.

• OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web

  Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning.

• What Is an Open Repository?

  Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems

  Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

• Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis

  Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.

• Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis

  Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.

• Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise

  Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.

• ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith

  Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings.

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

• Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System

  Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development.

• Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico

  Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need.

• The Digital Library and Its Services

  Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

  Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.

• Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects

  Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

• The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

  Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

• Building the Info Grid

  Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September.

• Distributed Services Registry Workshop

  John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005.

• Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process

  Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process.

• Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective

  Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

• IWMW 2005

  Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

  Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

• Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project

  Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• EuroCAMP 2005

  Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino.

• Installing Shibboleth

  Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005

  Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

  Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.

• Shibboleth Installation Workshop

  James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

• Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme

  Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies.

• DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations

  Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.

• The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe

  Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

• The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?

  Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.

• The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution

  Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

  Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

• OpenURL Meeting

  Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003.

• Developing the JISC Information Environment Service Registry

  Verity Brack and Amanda Closier provide us with an overview of the aims and latest work in the development of the JISC IE Service Registry.

• Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape

  Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.

• Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme

• The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK?

  Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003.

• Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project

  Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage

  Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35.

• Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation

  Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment.

• The Personalisation of the Digital Library

  Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002.

• 5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment

  Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE.

• Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings

  Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience.

• First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?

  Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib.

• Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting

  John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Oxford Reference Online

  A user review of the Oxford University Press reference site by Pete Dowdell.

• The Information Grid

  Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002.

• UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users

  Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing.

• Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde.

• Oxford Puts Its Reference Works Online

  Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford University Press reference Web site.

• The JISC Information Environment and Web Services

  Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• Managed Learning?

  Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.

• ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.

• An Introduction to Web Services

  Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications.

• Architects of the Information Age

  Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.

• Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives

  Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.

• Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions

  Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Windows NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• The eLib Hybrid Library Projects

  Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife

• Hylife: Ten Steps to Success

  Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project.

• The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model

  John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

  John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh.

• Building on BUILDER

  Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project.

• Clumps Come Up Trumps

  Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods.

• E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing?

  Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector.

• It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book

  Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective.

• The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library

  Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.

• DECOMATE II

  Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library

  Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering.

• Agora: From Information Maze to Market

  Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background.

• Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

  John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.

• EPRESS

  Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development.

• Clumps As Catalogues

  Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?'

• Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update

  Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

• Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach

  Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?

  Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services

• Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop

  Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."

• Z39.50 for All

  Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature.

• ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS).

• JISC ASSIST

  Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit.

• JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community

  Alicia Wise discusses NESLI.

• Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn?

  Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries.

• Tolimac: 'Smart Card People Are Happy People'

  Sally Rumsey explains a pilot electronic document delivery service at the University of Surrey Library.

• BIDS Begets Ingenta

  The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered.

• DiLIS

  Debbie Lock introduces a new service, Distance Learners Information Service (DiLIS), from the University of Surrey Library and Information Services.

• Hybrid Libraries

  Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University

  David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form.

• Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum

  Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages.

• View from the Hill: Mark Clark

  Mark Clark risks the longer view.

• Project Builder

  Stephen Pinfield outlines the aims of Project Builder, a phase-3 eLib project.

• Showing Robots the Door

  Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled.

• Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability

  Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software.

• Consortium and Site Licensing

  Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group.

• JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution

  Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form

  Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site.

• ACORN Implemented

  Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.

• Clifford Lynch in Interview

  Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

• Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?

  Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

• ERCOMS

  The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project.

• The Library Association Web Site

  Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site.

• Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation

  Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

• Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures

  Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes.

• The Resource Discovery Project

  As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks.

• Controlling Access in the Electronic Library

  Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication.

• Networking Moving Images

  Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications.

• Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web

  David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web.

• Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day

  Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme.

• ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology

  Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives.

• DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education

  Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake.

• Lotus Eaters On-Line: Forming an Alliance Between Groupware and the Web in a Pre-Prints System

  Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes.

• Securing HTML FORMs

  Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment.

• Are They Being Served?

  Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs.

• From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS

  Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs.

• From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring

  Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.

• Netskills Corner: NCSA Mosaic Web Browser

  In this Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting.