Issue 14

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 14

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

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 14

  Lyndon Pugh presents the editorial from issue 14 of the print version.

• Information Services: A Mission and a Vision

  Les Watson asks how we use technology in general as part of the learning process, in this extended version of the main article in the print version of Ariadne

• The People's Library

  Lyndon Pugh discusses the latest noises from government over public library networking and life-long learning.

• Dublin Comes to Europe

  Paul Miller discusses issues raised at a recent European Commission meeting on metadata for resource discovery.

• 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.

• Internet Resources for Older People

  Internet resources for older people: Monica Blake describes some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme.

• Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project.

• Superjournal Update

  Christine Baldwin describes work so far on the Superjournal project which set out to study factors which make e-journals successful and useful to academia.

• EDDIS

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

• So What Is So Exciting about LAMDA?

  Frederick Friend explains about electronic document delivery in London and Manchester.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• Down Your Way: Cyberworld Croydon

  Lyndon Pugh took a trip to the cyberworld of Croydon, to see 'what was going down'.

• A Knight's Tale: Networked CD-ROM Redirectors

  Jon Knight describes how MSCDEX.EXE and networked CD-ROM redirectors can introduce difficulties when using Windows 95 and NT to provide access to library CD-ROMs.

• Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability

  Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software.

• Minotaur

  Robin Alston replies to issue Ariadne 13's Minotaur, by Louis Schmier.

• 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.

• Planet SOSIG: Regard

  Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web.

• Public Libraries Corner: An Internet Open Day

  Sally Criddle describes a World Wide Web training event organised by UKOLN and the University of Bath for the 1997 National Libraries Week.

• 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.

• View from the Hill: Mel Collier

  Lyndon Pugh talks to Mel Collier, previously Director of the International Institute for Electronic Library Research at De Montfort University and now Director of Strategic and Operational Planning at Dawson Holdings plc.

• 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.

• What Is RDF?

  Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework)

• BOBCATSSS

  Christine Dugdale reports on the 6th BOBCATSSS International Symposium, Budapest.

• Task Force Meeting

  Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference.

• MODELS

  Rosemary Russell reports on MODELS workshop, held on 5-6 February 1998.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.