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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.

• 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: Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources

  Lizz Jennings reviews a concise and practical guide to marketing library e-resources which offers the busy professional a structured approach to planning a successful campaign.

• Book Review: Powering Search - The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments

  Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.

• International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012

  Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012.

• Launching a New Community-owned Content Service

  Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.

• Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal

  Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012

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

• Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations?

  Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education.

• 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.

• Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

  Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.

• 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.

• The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011

  Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies.

• Book Review: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries

  Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software.

• Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles

  Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories.

• Reading Van Gogh Online?

  Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example.

• 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.

• Don't You Know Who I Am?

  John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better.

• Product Review: The IPad and the Educator, First Impressions

  Brian Whalley reports on his initial impressions of the new Apple iPad in the first three weeks since its release in the USA and what it has to offer the mobile educator.

• Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way

  Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010.

• Book Review: Libraries Designed for Kids

  Sara Wingate Gray considers a practical guide to implementing design change in children's libraries and how to manage a consistent approach.

• E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators

  Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment.

• 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.

• To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?

  Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa.

• Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship

  Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content.

• Book Review: Visualizing Data

  Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Newsline

  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.

• JISC CETIS Conference, 2006

  Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006.

• RDA: A New International Standard

  Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).

• Video Streaming of Events

  Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

  Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

• Book Review: Managing Change

  Donald Maclean reviews a text that lays down guidelines for information managers attempting to analyse, implement and evaluate change within their organisation.

• IWMW 2006: Quality Matters

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.

• Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico

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

• Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be

  Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come.

• Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

  Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines

  Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines.

• Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions

  Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit

  Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites.

• Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval

  Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional.

• EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available

  Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• Search Engines: Using the Right Search Engine at the Right Time

  Phil Bradley takes a look at which search engines to use depending on what you need to find..

• Looking for a Google Box?

  Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance.

• 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.

• e-Culture Horizons: from Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences

  Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September 2004.

• EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want

  Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service.

• A National Archive of Datasets

  Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users.

• Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports

  This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

  Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

  Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

• 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.

• Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

• EEVL: Search Me!

  Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options.

• Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002

  Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath.

• EEVL: Resident EEVL

  Roddy MacLeod provides an update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Portals, Portals Everywhere

  Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms.

• Another Piece of Cake?

  Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old.

• QA Focus

  Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.

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

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

• UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users

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

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• Oxford Puts Its Reference Works Online

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

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

  Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.

• Book Review: The Invisible Web

  Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.

• EEVL: Brand new EEVL service

  Roddy Macleod introduces a new service.

• Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless

  Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.

• Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column.

• 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.

• 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.

• Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper

  Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials.

• EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service

• EEVL: Email Newsletters Examples from Engineering

  Jim Corlett explains how email newsletters can benefit you.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread

  Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28.

• Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research

  Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges

  Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web

  David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics.

• Ancient World, Digital World: Excavation at Halif

  Paul Jacobs on how field and research strategies were impacted significantly by the use of digital technology in the 1999 field season at Tell Halif, Israel (the Lahav Research Project).

• Hylife: Ten Steps to Success

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

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

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

• NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.

• Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA)

  Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library).

• Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet

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

• How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online

  Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.

• 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.

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

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web

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

• Digitizing Wilfrid

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

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

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

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

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

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service.

• Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?

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

• Web Research: Browsing Video Content

  Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content.

• Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case

  Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site.

• Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services

  Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine.

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

  Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

• VERITY

  Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project.

• 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.

• Project Patron

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

• What Is XML?

  Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML.

• An End User's View

  Oliver de Peyer with his personal view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical electronic issue desk.

• 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.

• Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines

  Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases.

• Netskills Corner

  Justin MacNeil reviews FrontPage '98 Beta.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form

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

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• 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.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

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

• 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.

• Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning

  During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster.

• ERCOMS

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

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

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

• 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.

• Internationalisation and the Web

  Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web.

• 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.

• Metadata, PICS and Quality

  Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter.

• Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton

  In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies.

• Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students With Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues

  Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• Introducing Web Focus

  UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium.

• 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.

• Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators

  Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.

• A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site

  A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World.

• Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF

  Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF.

• Down Your Way: Durham

  Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project.

• ESPERE

  Dee Wood reports on the Electronic Submission and Peer Review Project.

• Handling MARC With PERL

  Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records.

• IPL: The Internet Public Library

  Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library.

• Mind the Gap!

  Sheila and Robert Harden describe the making of their public library Web pages.

• Minotaur

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources.

• 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.

• Public Libraries Corner: Life After the Millenium Bid

  After the recent disappointing turn-down of the millenium bid to connect public libraries to the Internet, Sarah Ormes wonders where we go from here.

• 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.

• 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.

• Cartoon

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

• How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled

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

• OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human

  Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources.

• 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.

• The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University

  Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter.

• Yahoo: UK and Ireland

  Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland.

• Around the Table

  Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering.

• British Library Corner: Text and the Internet

  Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet.

• 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.

• 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.

• Netskills Corner: Beneath the Surface of Your Web Pages

  Brian Kelly looks beneath the surface of HTML pages and provides advice on the design of the underlying directory structure.

• 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.

• The Katharine Sharp Review

  Kevin Ward, the editor of the Katherine Sharp Review, gives an overview of the first two years of this major journal for Librarians, and looks to its future.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• JUGL

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

• Minotaur

  Dinty Moore, author of The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, worries about who will be the gatekeepers of online information in the future.

• 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'.

• ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media

  Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

• Netskills Corner: Fifth WWW Conference, Paris

  Brian Kelly undertakes the arduous task of attending the 5th WWW Conference in Paris (is there a 'smiley' for 'green with envy'?).

• 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.

• URL Monitoring Software and Services

  Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated.

• 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.

• Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed

  Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

• Down Your Way

  Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library.

• From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring

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

• Netskills Corner: NCSA Mosaic Web Browser

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

• Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley

  Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.

• Down Your Way

  Loughborough University has a reputation for technological excellence. Its Information Service was revamped last year, and is becoming increasingly dependent upon the Internet. Alison Kilgour reports.

• OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information

  Frank Norman, project co-ordinator, describes OMNI, what it can do for you (and you for it). OMNI is an eLib project from the Access to Network Resources programme area. It consists of a well-maintained and expanding database of medical and health resources that can be accessed through JANET/Internet. This database can be searched, via a World Wide Web browser; in addition, catalogues of the resources are available for browsing.

• Sceptics Column

  Jim Smith finds that the Internet is no place to do research.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

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