Issue 1

• eLib Starts to Deliver

  Ariadne explains how the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a key IT programme for academic libraries, is shaping up.

• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

  Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.

• Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm

  Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

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

• 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.

• EduLib: The National Network of Electronic Library Accredited Trainers

  EduLib is an eLib project from the training and awareness section of the programme. Jane Core describes the project, and how it will affect librarians in the Higher Education community.

• CLIC: An Electronic Chemistry Journal

  CLIC is a project from the Electronic Journals area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. Henry Rzepa, from the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, explains the need for journals in the field of Chemistry that use leading edge technology for molecular information storage, retrieval and manipulation.

• Interface

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

• 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.

• View from the Hill

  Scottish poet Douglas Dunn waxes lyrical on all things Internet.

• Sceptics Column

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

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.

• Sideline

  John MacColl on the delights of sharing the blandest of Midland hotels with a group of eLib project managers for a couple of days.

• Netskills Corner

  Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95.

• From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version?

  In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with.

• Downtime

  Downtime is a regular section containing items to help you unwind from the rigours of networking.

• John Burnside

  John Burnside, fellow in creative writing at the University of Dundee, gives us his thoughts on adapting to 'change'.