Issue 16

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16

  John Maccoll, Assistant Director of Information Services, University of Abertay, introduces Ariadne 16.

• Hacking the Net

  David Nicholas looks at the Internet phenomenon from the point of view of the Media.

• Supporting Learners at a Distance

  Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access.

• The Good, the Bad and the Useless

  Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources.

• Law Vs Jordan

  Stephen Gough discusses: Who makes the best manager of a converged service?

• What Are XLink and Xpointer?

  Brian Kelly explains XLink and XPointer.

• Heron: Higher Education Resources Online

  Carolyn Rowlinson outlines the aims of the Heron eLib project.

• ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol

  Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility.

• SKIP: Skills for New Information Professionals

  Penny Garrod reviews the Skills for new Information Professionals project

• Down Your Way

  Sarah Ormes visits a public library in Huyton, Liverpool, England.

• Metadata Corner

  Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop.

• Minotaur: Widening Access

  Lyndon Pugh argues that there must be much more to widening access than changing rules and regulations.

• Planet SOSIG

  Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field.

• Public Libraries Corner

  Sally Criddle reports on Resurrection: a new life for powerful public libraries.

• Search Engines Corner

  Dave Beckett discusses the best of the search engine features.

• View from the Hill: Birkbeck

  Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there.

• Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

  Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

• Information Landscapes

  Rosemary Russell, Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes report on the UKOLN conference held in June 1998.

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.