Issue 11

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 11

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

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 11

  John MacColl presents the editorial from issue 11 of the print version.

• Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries

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

• Theses Unbound

  Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.

• 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.

• SKIP: Skills for new Information Professionals

  Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS. This article is an extended version of that which appears in the print edition of Ariadne.

• 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.

• Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT)

  Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography.

• York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet

  Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

• Cataloguing Electronic Sources

  Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham.

• Cataloguing E-Journals: Where Are We Now?

  Valerie Wilkins reviews the results of a survey, showing a variety of current practices in cataloguing e-journals.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Down Your Way: Queen's University Library

  Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast.

• Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same

  Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project.

• Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes

  Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'.

• 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.

• Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries

  Rachel Heery examines metadata issues.

• Minotaur

  Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball.

• Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS

  Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG.

• Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative

  Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.

• Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web

  Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

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

• Conference Goes One Step Beyond

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

• Digital Libraries '97

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

• SIGIR '97

  David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

• BULISC '97

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

• 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.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.