Issue 20

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20.

• Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System

  Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system.

• CLUMPS in the Real World

  Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects.

• ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS).

• Milestone for Mailbase: Ten Years Value-Added Service to UK Higher Education

  Elaine Blair discusses Mailbase services ten years on.

• Tolimac: 'Smart Card People Are Happy People'

  Sally Rumsey explains a pilot electronic document delivery service at the University of Surrey Library.

• The DISinHE Centre

  Professor Alan Newell asks: How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities?

• The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy

  Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy.

• Search Engines: 'Finding Me, Finding You'

  Phil Bradley looks at the search engines that can be used to trace people.

• Planet SOSIG

  Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services.

• OMNI: Accessing the Internet

  John Kirriemuir writes about an informal survey of Internet Access in the NHS.

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore patent information web sites, the latest EEVL news, etc.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know?

  Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business

• Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg

  Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.

• Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn?

  Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries.

• JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community

  Alicia Wise discusses NESLI.

• JISC ASSIST

  Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server.

• The Unix Column: 'Sandboxes Using Chroot'

  Ian Peacock explains how the proliferation of network software brings increasing concerns about security, which can be countered by 'restricted perspectives'.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

  Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

• Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service

  Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service.

• Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?

  Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one.

• IMS Workshop

  Tracy Gardner reports on a meeting held in March in the Francis Hotel, Bath.

• Bibliotecas Universitarias Consorcio

  Agnès Guyon reports on a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, 26th and 27th April 1999.

• CTI-AFM Conference

  Christine Dugdale reports on the 10th CTI-AFM Annual Conference, Brighton.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.