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• Internet Librarian International Conference 2014

  Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.

• Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton

  Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 72

  The new editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 72.

• Open Access and Research Conference 2013: Discovery, Impact and Innovation

  Paula Callan, Stephanie Bradbury, Sarah Brown, Philippa Broadley, Emma Nelms and Christopher Hart report on Open Access and Research 2013 which focused on recent developments and the strategic advantages they bring to the research sector.

• Hita-Hita: Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Japan Ten Years On

  Ikuko Tsuchide, Yui Nishizono, Masako Suzuki, Shigeki Sugita, Kazuo Yamamoto and Hideki Uchijima introduce a number of ideas and projects that have enhanced the progress of the Open Access movement and institutional repositories in Japan over the last ten years.

• Augmented Reality in Education: The SCARLET+ Experience

  Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.

• Book Review: The New Digital Scholar - Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students

  Julia Robinson reviews a substantial and timely collection of essays related to the research and writing practices of NextGen students. Expressing a call for change in the way educators approach Information Literacy teaching, this book invites the reader to redefine, re-evaluate and reflect on what we think we know about students’ research practices today.

• ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

  Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.

• 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.

• Book Review: The E-copyright Handbook

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting.

• IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012.

• Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant.

• Online Information 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.

• Seb Schmoller Replies

  Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning.

• Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management

  Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.

• 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.

• Making the Most of a Conference

  Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project.

• Collaborations Workshop 2012: Software, Sharing and Collaboration in Oxford

  Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012.

• Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design

  Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.

• Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit

  Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories.

• Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.

• IMPACT Final Conference 2011

  Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper.

• 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.

• A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector?

  Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 2011.

• Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services

  John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0.

• From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)

  Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.

• Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade

  Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield.

• UK Reading Experience Database

  Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011.

• 10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event

  Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard.

• Beyond the PDF

  Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011.

• Developments in Virtual 3D Imaging of Cultural Artefacts

  Richard Collmann describes how experience using a portable Virtual 3D Object Rig in cultural institutions has led to significant improvements in apparatus design and workflow.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66.

• RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration

  Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research.

• Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap

  Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK.

• Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed.

• 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.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access

  Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

• Book Review: Digital Information - Order Or Anarchy?

  Muhammad Rafiq offers us a review of a work which examines the future of digital information and emerging patterns of scholarly communication.

• FRBR in Practice

  Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit.

• Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS

  Nick Sheppard reports on the event examining integrated, systemic approaches to research information management organised by the Welsh Repository Network and supported by JISC and ARMA at Leeds Metropolitan University, in May 2010.

• Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting

  Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

  Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.

• Book Review: Information Science in Transition

  Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958.

• Planning the Future of the National Library of Mongolia

  Monika Segbert-Elbert and David Fuegi describe the National Library of Mongolia's plans to modernise its infrastructure and services.

• Book Review: Copyright - Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services

  Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback.

• Book Review: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture

  Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62.

• Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management

  Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

  Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.

• How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project

  Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.

• Internet Librarian International 2009

  Katherine Allen reports on Internet Librarian International 2009 which took place in London on 15 and 16 October 2009.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0

  Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world.

• The RSP Goes 'Back to School'

  Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland.

• Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project

  Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project.

• JISC Digital Content Conference 2009

  Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Open Repositories 2009

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009.

• SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York

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

• The Norwegian National Digital Library

  Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

• EThOS: from Project to Service

  Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 59: The Loneliness of the Long-distance Worker

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 59.

• Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare

  Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution.

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• Publish and Cherish With Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems

  Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders to extend OA publishing conditions by stimulating the market.

• Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR

  Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.

• Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe

  Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union.

• An Awfully Big Adventure: Strathclyde's Digital Library Plan

  Derek Law describes how the University of Strathclyde is choosing to give priority to e-content and services instead of a new building.

• Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles

  Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The European Film Gateway

  Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe.

• The MrCute Repository: The Next Phase

  Helen Brady describes the MrCute repository project and its potential impact on the digital learning object-sharing community.

• CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference

  Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

• Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access

  Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

• Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content

  Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.

• Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective

  Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• eResearch Australasia 2008

  Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008.

• iPRES 2008

  Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

• Book Review: Copyright Compliance

  Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Open Repositories 2008

  Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008.

• Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008.

• The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference

  Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008.

• 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.

• Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice

  Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement.

• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch

  Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

• Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections

  Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative

  John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.

• 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.

• MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology

  Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Listen Up! Podcasting for Schools and Libraries

  Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential to take library services and activities to new audiences.

• Googlepository and the University Library

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges

  Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

• The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands

  Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

• ALPSP Conference

  Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007.

• 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.

• 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.

• DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories

  Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study.

• IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community

  Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop.

• Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors

  Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Repositories Support Project Summer School

  Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team.

• Repository Thrills and Spills

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative.

• Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills

  Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project

  Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level.

• The JISC Annual Conference 2007

  Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference.

• 2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice

  Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.

• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

  Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

• Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

  Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals

  Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.

• Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository

  Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.

• Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?

  Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.

• From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project

  Masako Suziki and Shigeki Sugita describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles.

• Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?

  Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.

• 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.

• e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?

  Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.

• CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League

  Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006

  Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'.

• Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on

  Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

• Book Review: The Institutional Repository

  Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories.

• Digital Policy Management Workshop

  Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management 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 24 April 2006.

• Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach

  Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery.

• Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging

  Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that.

• Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers

  R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment.

• The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference

  Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference.

• The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting

  Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006.

• Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres

  Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings.

• Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice

  Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years.

• Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade

  Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005.

• Google Challenges for Academic Libraries

  John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments.

• JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses

  Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

  Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.

• A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories

  Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)

  Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

• DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service

  Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service.

• DARE Project Chronology

  To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project.

• Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here?

  Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 45: Smaller Might Be Beautiful

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 45.

• Looking for More Than Text?

  Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication

  Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication.

• Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005.

• Creative Archive

  Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Revealing All

  Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people.

• Book Review: Managing Digital Rights - A Practitioner's Guide

  Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it.

• E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools

  Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities.

• 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.

• Book Review: How to Find Information

  Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition.

• Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing

  Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 42: Less Could Mean More

  Richard Waller provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne issue 42.

• Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy

  Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education.

• Tracing Help With Copyright: New AHDS Case Studies on Copyright Issues

  Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield of respecting copyright.

• Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5

  David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners.

• Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change

  Lise Foster finds this a useful scene setter for the novice and valuable reminder for the professional of the challenges facing today's librarian.

• Book Review: The Web Library

  Lina Coelho looks at a book she feels is destined to repay its purchase price even if you never manage to read it all.

• ISBN-13: New Number on the Block

  Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience

  Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output.

• What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?

  Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• Book Review: Managing Your Internet & Intranet Services

  David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but finds unfortunate omissions as well as beneficial inclusions.

• Book Review: Staying Legal

  Stuart Hannabuss examines an interesting collection of essays and, with reservations, likes the second edition a lot more.

• PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing

  Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.

• Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements

  Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.

• Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository

  Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository.

• The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources

  Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

  Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

• Book Review: Extreme Searchers' Internet Handbook

  Verity Brack reviews a book on Internet resources and finds it a useful volume for Internet beginners and Google-centric searchers.

• Book Review: The Accidental Webmaster

  Andy Prue examines a guide aimed at inexperienced Webmasters. While the book covers some interesting and salient points, Andy raises questions as to the ideal audience.

• Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project

  Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH

  Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

• 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.

• Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services

  Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference.

• Book Review: Joining Up the Dots

  Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society.

• Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian

  Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series.

• Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse

  Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse.

• DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

• Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

  Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

• EEVL News

  Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work.

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification

  Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources.

• News from BIOME

  Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

  Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop.

• OpenURL Meeting

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

• Planet SOSIG

  Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003

• Search Engines: Would All New Search Engines Take One Step Forward!

  Phil Bradley gives us an overview of emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want to keep an eye on as they develop.

• Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff

  Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh.

• Unicode and Historic Scripts

  Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

• An IMS Generator for the Masses

  Kelvin Hai, David Palmer and Chris Dunlop of the MARTINI Project describe the architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator and show how its flexibility allows it to handle the diverse nature of data held by institutions.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36

  Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual.

• 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.

• Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

  Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

• EEVL News and Enhancements

  Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36.

• Framework for the Future: Access to Digital Skills and Services (Including e-Government)

  Penny Garrod examines further this government blueprint and argues that some have to walk before they can run.

• Just a Distraction?: External Content in Institutional Portals

  Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research.

• MIMAS Ten Years on

  Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre.

• 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.

• Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library

  John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.

• News from BIOME

  Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and Jenny Hall provide us with the first of a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of activity.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service.

• Review: Naked in Cyberspace

  Marieke Guy taps into our increasing collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the use of personal information in the Cyber Age.

• Review: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of one of William Blake's most famous works.

• Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at the developments occurring with weblogs and how you can go about searching on or for them.

• 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 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003.

• 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.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment

  Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

  Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments.

• WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities.

• eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning

  Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance.

• Apart from the Weather, I Think It’s a Good Idea: Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals

  Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal.

• Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine

  Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals.

• 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.

• Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment

  Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: Many Movements in Mere Months

  Phil Bradley looks at various developments that have occurred recently in the ever-shifting scene of the search engine.

• What Features in a Portal?

  Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.

• DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow

  William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow.

• Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century

  Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

  William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002.

• Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

  John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Collection Description in Focus

  Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002

• NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau

  Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries: Building Better Library Services

  Penny Garrod on the recently published Audit Commission Report: Building Better Library Services.

• The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience.

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive

  Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive.

• Book Review: The Invisible Web

  Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.

• Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?

  David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge

  Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol.

• Reference Books on the Web

  Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools.

• 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.

• Establishing a Digital Library Centre

  John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.

• Evolution of Portable Electronic Books

  Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today.

• 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.

• Software Review: C4U

  Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software.

• Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey

  Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community.

• Minotaur: A Comparison of Six Proposals for Freeing the Refereed Literature Online

  Stevan Harnad argues for the self-archiving alternative.

• Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

  Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

• After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning

  Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning.

• Hylife: Ten Steps to Success

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

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure

  Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

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

• After eLib

  Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER.

• Exam Papers Online

  Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers.

• Review of Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook

  Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier review Stuart Lee's 'Digital Imaging' handbook.

• The Future Is Hybrid: London

  Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London.

• A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways

  Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

  Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

• Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide

  Stephen Harper analyses in detail a familiar disease.

• Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

  Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press.

• Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet

  Phil Bradley offers his latest look at the search engine marketplace.

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

  Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People

  Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23.

• A Free ISP from the British Library

  Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library.

• BIOME: Incorporating the OMNI Service

  Lisa Gray reports on recent developments with the BIOME hub.

• Delivering the Electronic Library: The ARIADNE Reader

  John MacColl on the new ARIADNE Reader.

• Digitizing Intellectual Property: The Oxford Scoping Study

  Stuart Lee discusses the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University.

• EEVL: Round the World

  Roddy MacLeod considers Southern African engineering resources.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 22: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 22, looks at Ariadne's web accesses for the past year, and previews the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER).

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update

  Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

• Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?

  Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together.

• RDN: Resource Discovery Network

  Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network)

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

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

• Search Engines: The Altavista Relaunch, Personalised Search Engines

  Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and Personalised Search Engines.

• The National Internet Accessibility Database (NIAD)

  E. A. Draffon looks at the National Internet Accessibility Database (NIAD).

• The ResIDe Electronic Library: An Evolving Library Service

  Christine Dugdale looks at the progress of this project to a functional service.

• Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web

  Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows.

• Web Cache: The National JANET Web Cache Progress Report

  George Neisser discusses the plans of the National Caching Service.

• Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site

  Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site.

• Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service

  Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways

  Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways.

• ALISS: Academic Librarians in the Social Sciences

  Christine Dugdale reports on a conference held in the University of Wales, Bangor.

• An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia

  Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.

• Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics

  Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites.

• DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility

  Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

  Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

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

• EEVL: 'Not a Success'

  Roddy Macleod embarks on a tendentious argument.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread

  Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter.

• Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest

  Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest.

• Search Engines: FAST, the Biggest and Best Yet?

  Phil Bradley explains how 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light.

• The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal

  Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal.

• The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond'

  Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• VITAL services? Evaluating IT access in Public Libraries

  Project officer Juliet Eve discusses the value and impact of end-user IT services in public libraries.

• 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."

• WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

  Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)

• CLUMPS in the Real World

  Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects.

• CTI-AFM Conference

  Christine Dugdale reports on the 10th CTI-AFM Annual Conference, Brighton.

• ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS).

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore patent information web sites, the latest EEVL news, etc.

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20.

• IMS Workshop

  Tracy Gardner reports on a meeting held in March in the Francis Hotel, Bath.

• JISC ASSIST

  Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit.

• JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community

  Alicia Wise discusses NESLI.

• Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg

  Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.

• Milestone for Mailbase: Ten Years Value-Added Service to UK Higher Education

  Elaine Blair discusses Mailbase services ten years on.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OMNI: Accessing the Internet

  John Kirriemuir writes about an informal survey of Internet Access in the NHS.

• Planet SOSIG

  Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services.

• Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System

  Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system.

• Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn?

  Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries.

• Search Engines: 'Finding Me, Finding You'

  Phil Bradley looks at the search engines that can be used to trace people.

• The DISinHE Centre

  Professor Alan Newell asks: How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities?

• The Unix Column: 'Sandboxes Using Chroot'

  Ian Peacock explains how the proliferation of network software brings increasing concerns about security, which can be countered by 'restricted perspectives'.

• The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy

  Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy.

• Tolimac: 'Smart Card People Are Happy People'

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

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

  Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

• Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service

  Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service.

• Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?

  Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server.

• BOBCATSSS 99

  Christine Dugdale reports on the BOBCATSSS 99 conference.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

  Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

• Caching In?

  George Neisser describes the National JANET Web Caching Service.

• Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19.

• Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?

  Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux.

• SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project

  Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project.

• Search Engine Corner

  Phil Bradley reviews recent developments with search engines.

• The DISinHE Centre

  Ian Webb introduces the DISinHE centre.

• Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email

  Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser.

• Web Focus: Extending Your Browser

  Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser.

• CATRIONA II Management Survey

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources.

• CEDARS

  Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives.

• Knowledge Management

  Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether.

• Looking Back in Anger: A Retrospective

  Don Revill, former Head of Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a retrospective.

• 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.

• The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)

  Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects.

• What Is a URI?

  Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.

• eLib: How Was It for You?

  John Kirriemuir reviews the eLib programme

• ALA '98

  Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C.

• Building on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations

  Clive Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• UKOLUG

  Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference.

• View from the Hill: Mark Clark

  Mark Clark risks the longer view.

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• Heron: Higher Education Resources Online

  Carolyn Rowlinson outlines the aims of the Heron eLib project.

• Metadata Corner

  Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop.

• Supporting Learners at a Distance

  Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access.

• The Good, the Bad and the Useless

  Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources.

• View from the Hill: Birkbeck

  Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there.

• What Are XLink and Xpointer?

  Brian Kelly explains XLink and XPointer.

• A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?

  David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Project Builder

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

• Project Patron

  Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online).

• ROUTES Project

  Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project.

• Search Engines Corner

  Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere.

• TAPin

  Kay Flatten outlines the aims of the TAPin project, which is now approaching the publication of its "Impact Study".

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• EDDIS

  David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s document delivery projects.

• Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project.

• Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design

  Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design: Walter Scales considers multimedia web design, asking whether we are running down an up escalator.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Task Force Meeting

  Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 14

  The Web editors, Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark, introduce Ariadne issue 14.

• Web Focus: Animate Your Pages

  Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic HTML, explaining recent developments that enable dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as Javascript.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)

  Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment).

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 13

  Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark present the editorial introduction for the web version of Ariadne 13.

• Web Focus Corner: The World Wide Web Consortium

  Brian Kelly ponders whether the academic community can have a role in shaping the web of the future.

• Consortium and Site Licensing

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

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• On Demand Publishing in the Humanities

  Phil Sykes reports on the latest work in On Demand Publishing in the Humanities, an eLib project.

• Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song

  Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 12

  Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark introduce Ariadne, in its Web Version.

• BULISC '97

  John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2.

• Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries

  Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change in academic libraries.

• Conference Goes One Step Beyond

  John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Digital Libraries '97

  David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

• Edbank

  Hilary Nunn describes this project to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training, based at the Open University Library.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In part two of this report, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years.

• Libtech '97

  Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire.

• The Librarian of Babel: for a Public Reading Right

  The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 11

  The Web editor, Isobel Stark, introduces Ariadne issue 11.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

  Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

• A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

  Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.

• ACORN Implemented

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

• BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians

  Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

• Changing the Lightbulb – Er, the Culture: How Many eLib Projects Does It Take to Change the Higher Education Culture?

  Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss what it takes to change Higher Education culture.

• 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

• Dublin Core Management

  Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages.

• ERCOMS

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

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

  Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.

• OMNI-Corner: LA 97: 'I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Toto!'

  Sue Welsh, the globe-trotting OMNI project manager, presents a report of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association of the U.S.A, held in Seattle from 24 – 28 May, 1997.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10

  John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version.

• Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research

  Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme.

• View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski

  John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights.

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web.

• ACORN

  Elizabeth Gadd and Paula Kingston report on progress with Project ACORN.

• CAIN

  Martin Melaugh reports on a site devoted to the Northern Ireland conflict.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• Eurotext

  In these days of European integration, Freda Carroll, Eurotext project co- ordinator, describes a project that will make European Union documents accessible online.

• Indian Ocean Rim Region Virtual Library Project

  Susan Lutley describes a prototype virtual library, built as part of a co-operative venture focusing on broad issues in Social Development within the Indian Ocean Rim Region.

• MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine

  Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.

• Preparing Students for a New Electronic Service

  Preparing students for a new electronic service : Elizabeth Gadd outlines the approaches and experiences of Project ACORN in training and promoting their new electronic 'short-loan' collection.

• REDD: Regional Electronic Document Delivery Service

  Chris Taylor provides details on an Australian electronic document delivery service that is based on standard Internet protocols.

• SCOPE

  Leah Halliday believes there is SCOPE for a major shift in the publication of study texts.

• The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia

  Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Key to the Stacks

  The Librarian, ably assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal.

• Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45

  Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45.

• Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library

  Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London.

• Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum

  John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum.

• ELVIRA 4

  Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library Visual Information Research Conference, May 1997 in Milton Keynes, UK.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• Monash University Electronic Reserve Project

  Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.

• Preserving Oral History Recordings

  Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia.

• RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services

  Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design.

• 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.

• Unique Identifiers in a Digital World

  Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UKOLN on the use of unique identifiers in electronic publishing.

• Wire: Interview with Icarus Sparry

  In his own words, Icarus Sparry tells us how what he is doing at the University of Bath, as well as revealing his own opinions on various aspects of networking, such as firewalls and network charging.

• Controlling Access in the Electronic Library

  Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication.

• Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme

  After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen.

• ERIMS

  Catherine Hanratty issues a call to ERIMS.

• 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.

• Print Journals: Fit for the Future?

  Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate.

• SCRAN: A Taste of Scotland and Food for Thought

  Bruce Royan outlines an epic millennium project to digitise much of the culture and heritage of Scotland.

• Web Access for the Disabled

  Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources.

• 10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar

  Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement.

• ACORN

  Paula Kingston outlines the ACORN project, which aims to develop a transferable model for the whole process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles.

• ADAM: Bits and Pieces

  Tony Gill presents a few bits and pieces of news regarding the ADAM project which was featured in issue 3 of Ariadne.

• Access V Holdings, Cranfield

  Sarah Ashton reports on an event of interest to the Document Delivery community.

• Allerton 1996

  Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science.

• An Investigation Into World Wide Web Search Engine Use from within the UK: Preliminary Findings

  Simon Stobart and Susan Kerridge give some of the preliminary results of a JISC- funded investigation into the use of Search Engines such as Alta Vista and Lycos within the UK.

• Around the Table

  Many legal resources are ideal for searching online. Noel Whitty highlights some sites for lawyers.

• British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?

  Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside on his first classroom experience of 'real' information.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell, giving a wry spin on the topic of Peer Review.

• Catriona II

  Mary Fletcher introduces a new seeker after Web resources. CATRIONA II is a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the programme.

• Copyright Battles: The Shetland News

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the Shetland Times versus Shetland News copyright case, and its implications for users of the World Wide Web.

• 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.

• EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!

  Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z).

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 6

  The editor introduces Ariadne issue 6.

• Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day

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

• From Books to Bits

  Ian Brown describes the transition from paper-based to Web-based textbooks, and outlines a novel solution for the production of teaching material within academia.

• How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled

  George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site.

• 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.

• Infopolecon

  John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.

• Information Strategies Get Down to Business

  John MacColl on the JISC approach to Information Strategies.

• Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia?

  The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour.

• Intranets

  Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given.

• Lessons Learned from Developing and Delivering the BORGES Information Filtering Tool

  Alan Smeaton discusses the development and implementation of BORGES, an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news.

• MIDRIB

  Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images.

• Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users

  Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource.

• Minotaur: Nick Gibbins

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Nick Gibbins gives an overview of some of the potential features that the Web does not contain, but a more functional successor to it might.

• Networked Learner Support Current Practice Case Base

  Sarah Ashton describes the Current Practice Case Base, an index of links to sites that demonstrate a use of networked learner support.

• Open Journal Trip Report

  Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation.

• Public Libraries Corner: Treasure Island on the Web

  Sarah Ormes looks at children's libraries and literacy, and describes the Treasure Island Web pages, a resource that shows how the potential of the Web can be used to make classic texts more accessible to a younger audience.

• Review of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net

  Marylaine Block describes the construction of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net.

• SOSIG: Training to Support Social Science Teaching and Research

  Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run.

• Sideline: Boys (and Girls) and Blackstuff

  In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Terry Morrow is Marketing Manager, BIDS (Bath Information and Data Services), University of Bath.

• The BNBMARC Currency Survey

  Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records.

• The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University

  Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter.

• Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field.

• View from the Hill: John Hatt

  Alison Kilgour meets John Hatt, traveller's companion turned virtual tourist.

• Wire: Interview with Glen Monks

  Glen Monks is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• BIDS Hits the Web

  Isobel Stark takes a look at the soon to be released trial BIDS web interface.

• CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative)

  The CTI, set up in 1989, offers a UK-wide service to academic staff in higher education institutions through its network of 24 subject-based centres. Joyce Martin, acting head of the CTI Support Service, describes this HEFCE funded initiative.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Copyright Info on the Net

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some of the Web sites and Bulletin Boards that contain information on copyright issues.

• Croatian Libraries: The War Is Behind Us, What Brings the Future?

  Croatian Libraries: "The war is behind us, what brings the future?": Jadranka Stojanovski, the head of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library, describes the post-war progress made in implementing IT and networks in Croatian Libraries.

• D-Lib

  William Y. Arms, D-Lib publisher and Amy Friedlander, the editor, describe this successful Web-based magazine that carries more technically-minded articles on all aspects of digital/electronic libraries research.

• 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.

• ELVIRA 4: The 4th UK Digital Libraries Conference (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) Milton Keynes, 6-8 May 1997

  Clare Davies announces the fourth in this series of annual Electronic Library research conferences.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 5

  The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5.

• European Libraries Programme

  The European Libraries Programme - instant cash for libraries who can hitch a ride on the Euro gravy train? Or another limited budget R&D programme for those content to live on bread and water? Rosalind Johnson of the UK National Focal Point for the European Libraries Programme explains all.

• FDTL: The Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning

  Gerry Taggart gives a brief outline of this HEFCE funded programme of projects geared towards teaching and learning using IT.

• HELIX

  Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme.

• JISC Projects Ahead

  John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document.

• Libtech 96

  John Kirriemuir and Isobel Stark with some notes and pictures from the main annual UK library exhibition: Libtech 96.

• 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.

• MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship

  Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship.

• Net Gains for Digital Researchers

  Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research.

• NewsAgent for Librarians

  Mark Kerr, research assistant on the NewsAgent for Libraries Project, describes a project to build a news and current awareness service for the LIS community.

• Open Journals

  Steve Hitchcock describes the Open Journals project. This involves the use of an innovative approach to handling the hyperlinks between Web-based resources, which could have significant implications for on-line journals and publishing.

• Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals

  Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, describe the design and implementation of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, and some of the issues behind the approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly review.

• Putting the UK on the Map

  Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites.

• Subject Trees: The Exeter Experience

  Ian Tilsed, Computing Development Officer at the University of Exeter Library, describes the building of the main University subject tree, or index, of Internet Resources.

• The 1996 UKOLUG State of the Art Conference

  Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July.

• The International Institute for Electronic Library Research: A New Kid on the Block

  Marilyn Deegan describes the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, a significant new centre of research based at De Montfort University.

• The SURF Foundation

  Jaqueline Pieters describes the evolution of the SURF Foundation, a major IT co-ordination service for the Dutch academic sector.

• UKERNA: Training the Networkers

  John MacCulloch and Jane Batchelor, from UKERNA, detail their training course, designed for those installing, running, supporting, or managing a JANET connection.

• Web4Lib: The Library Web Manager's Electronic Discussion List

  Roy Tennant, Project Manager of the Digital Library Research & Development at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the Web4Lib mailing list, an electronic discussion forum for library Web managers.

• eLib Column

  Kelly Russell, the assistant co-ordinator of the eLib programme, with a few words on how the project (and the programme as a whole) can be reflected in terms of success and/or failure.

• Around the Table

  Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cashing in on Caching

  Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it.

• Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection

  Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems.

• Charging Ahead?

  Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries.

• Down Your Very Long Way Away

  J. Correia describes the use of the Internet in Macau.

• Globally Yours

  Hazel Gott gives a brief overview of the Follett Lecture Series, where overseas experts in the fields of Library and Information Science speak in various UK locations.

• ILEJ: Internet Library of Early Journals

  Hugh Wellesley-Smith turns back the clock with a description of the Internet Library for early journals digitisation project.

• IMPEL2: What Is eLib Doing to Us All?

  Catherine Edwards describes the IMPEL2 project, from the Supporting Studies area of the programme.

• Interface

  John MacColl talks to Peter Nathan, acting president and distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Iowa.

• JILT: Journal of Information, Law and Technology

  Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law.

• JUGL

  Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

• Libtech '96: eLib goes to Libtech '96

  John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at the Libtech '96 event.

• MIDRIB

  Julian Cook describes a project that deals with the storage and access of medical images.

• Moral Rights

  Charles Oppenheim describes the issues and pitfalls in this often overlooked area of copyright legislation. If you are involved in any digital libraries project that deals with other peoples' material held in an electronic form, read this article.

• NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web

  Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site.

• Netlinks Symposium

  Sarah Ashton reports from the Netlinks Symposium, organised by the Netlinks eLib project and the Department of Information Studies in the University of Sheffield.

• ResIDe: Electronic Reserve for UK Universities

  Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• TAPin: Training and Awareness Programme in Networks

  Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area.

• TLTP: Teaching and Learning Technology Programme

  Joanna Tiley describes TLTP. The Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK, is a collection of 70+ projects aimed to 'make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology'.

• The Importance of Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS): The European Connection

  David Kay describes ACTS, the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services, a programme under the European Community 4th Framework Research & Technology Development Programme, consisting of around 120 projects.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of.

• ELVIRA

  Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University.

• Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview

  An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant.

• Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib

  We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use.

• Short Loan Projects

  John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections.

• Sideline

  Sheona Farquhar makes the mistake of thinking that any conference held outside Aberdeen has to be warmer.

• UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility?

  Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference.

• View from the Hill: Rob Ainsley

  Rob Ainsley, editor of a clutch of Internet-based classical music journals, expounds on the dynamics of ejournals on the Internet.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems.

• Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update

  Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.

• Interface

  Interview with Jill Foster, director of Mailbase and Netskills.

• Netskills eLib Project Launch

  John Kirriemuir on the Netskills eLib project launch.

• SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network

  Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers.

• Interface

  Interview with Paul Evan Peters, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

  Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).