Issue 10

• 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.

• Web Editorial: Goodbyeee

  The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10

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

• 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.

• Cybercollege Scorecard: How Does Your University Score?

  Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning.

• 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.

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

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

• 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.

• Press Release – JISC / Caul Collaboration Agreement

  Kelly Russell outlines the collaboration between JISC and CAUL, and announces the appointment of the post of International Co-ordinator.

• Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research

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

• Revolutionaries and Captives in the Information Society

  Trevor Haywood on the shackles that bind us to the information revolution.

• 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.

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

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

• ACORN Implemented

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

• Education-Line

  Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals.

• ERCOMS

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

• 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.

• NISS: National Information Services and Systems

  Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians

• 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.

• The Library Association Web Site

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

• r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe

  Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences.

• Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK

  Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK).

• Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface

  Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences.

• 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.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine

  The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web.

• Public Libraries Corner: Stories from the Web

  Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project.

• Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top

  Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.

• Interface: Dennis Nicholson

  Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson.

• Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research

  Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997.

• View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski

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

• Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued)

  Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense.

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

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

• Down Your Way: Thames Valley University

  Sarah Ashton stumbles across a new learning centre in the Thames Valley University.

• Around the Table: Film and Cinema

  Frank Parry discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema.

• The Horse That Isn't There: 1997 US Digital Libraries Initiative Meeting

  Chris Rusbridge reports from the June 1997 US Digital Libraries initiative (DLi) meeting in Pittsburgh.

• Netskills Corner: The 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS)

  Walter Scales summarises the 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS), held on the 23rd and 24th June 1997 in Sheffield.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.