Issue 5

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 5

  The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5.

• Journals Overview

  The editor introduces descriptions of some journals, freely available over the Web, that may be of interest to librarians and information specialists.

• JISC Projects Ahead

  John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document.

• Croatian Libraries: The War Is Behind Us, What Brings the Future?

  Croatian Libraries: "The war is behind us, what brings the future?": Jadranka Stojanovski, the head of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library, describes the post-war progress made in implementing IT and networks in Croatian Libraries.

• Net Gains for Digital Researchers

  Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research.

• PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet

  In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year.

• BIDS Hits the Web

  Isobel Stark takes a look at the soon to be released trial BIDS web interface.

• Web4Lib: The Library Web Manager's Electronic Discussion List

  Roy Tennant, Project Manager of the Digital Library Research & Development at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the Web4Lib mailing list, an electronic discussion forum for library Web managers.

• Subject Trees: The Exeter Experience

  Ian Tilsed, Computing Development Officer at the University of Exeter Library, describes the building of the main University subject tree, or index, of Internet Resources.

• Putting the UK on the Map

  Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites.

• UKERNA: Training the Networkers

  John MacCulloch and Jane Batchelor, from UKERNA, detail their training course, designed for those installing, running, supporting, or managing a JANET connection.

• Lotus Eaters On-Line: Forming an Alliance Between Groupware and the Web in a Pre-Prints System

  Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes.

• NewsAgent for Librarians

  Mark Kerr, research assistant on the NewsAgent for Libraries Project, describes a project to build a news and current awareness service for the LIS community.

• HELIX

  Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme.

• Open Journals

  Steve Hitchcock describes the Open Journals project. This involves the use of an innovative approach to handling the hyperlinks between Web-based resources, which could have significant implications for on-line journals and publishing.

• eLib Column

  Kelly Russell, the assistant co-ordinator of the eLib programme, with a few words on how the project (and the programme as a whole) can be reflected in terms of success and/or failure.

• The International Institute for Electronic Library Research: A New Kid on the Block

  Marilyn Deegan describes the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, a significant new centre of research based at De Montfort University.

• European Libraries Programme

  The European Libraries Programme - instant cash for libraries who can hitch a ride on the Euro gravy train? Or another limited budget R&D programme for those content to live on bread and water? Rosalind Johnson of the UK National Focal Point for the European Libraries Programme explains all.

• Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals

  Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, describe the design and implementation of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, and some of the issues behind the approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly review.

• FDTL: The Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning

  Gerry Taggart gives a brief outline of this HEFCE funded programme of projects geared towards teaching and learning using IT.

• DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education

  Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake.

• The SURF Foundation

  Jaqueline Pieters describes the evolution of the SURF Foundation, a major IT co-ordination service for the Dutch academic sector.

• CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative)

  The CTI, set up in 1989, offers a UK-wide service to academic staff in higher education institutions through its network of 24 subject-based centres. Joyce Martin, acting head of the CTI Support Service, describes this HEFCE funded initiative.

• The 1996 UKOLUG State of the Art Conference

  Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July.

• Libtech 96

  John Kirriemuir and Isobel Stark with some notes and pictures from the main annual UK library exhibition: Libtech 96.

• Securing HTML FORMs

  Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment.

• Netskills Corner: Beneath the Surface of Your Web Pages

  Brian Kelly looks beneath the surface of HTML pages and provides advice on the design of the underlying directory structure.

• Metadata for the Masses

  Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

• D-Lib

  William Y. Arms, D-Lib publisher and Amy Friedlander, the editor, describe this successful Web-based magazine that carries more technically-minded articles on all aspects of digital/electronic libraries research.

• CAUSE / EFFECT

  Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT.

• Provenance

  Neal Chan describes Provenance, a Canadian-based Web magazine for Information Professionals.

• MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship

  Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship.

• The Katharine Sharp Review

  Kevin Ward, the editor of the Katherine Sharp Review, gives an overview of the first two years of this major journal for Librarians, and looks to its future.

• Copyright Info on the Net

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some of the Web sites and Bulletin Boards that contain information on copyright issues.

• Public Libraries Corner: Commercial Partnerships in the Public Library

  Sarah Ormes looks at the increase of net access in public libraries.

• Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold

  Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• InfoSeek Ultra: (Yet Another) Web Search Engine

  Tracey Stanley looks at InfoSeek Ultra, a new search engine which claims to allow searching on a index of 50 million Web pages.

• OMNI-corner: Patient Information on the Web – Doctor on Your Desktop?

  Sue Welsh, the OMNI maintainer, examines the perils of using the Internet as a substitute for your local family practitioner.

• British Library Corner: Text and the Internet

  Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet.

• Down Your Way: Edge Hill University

  Alison Kilgour checks out the network facilities at Edge Hill College.

• Interface: EARL

  Derek Law threw down the gauntlet to public libraries in a recent issue of Ariadne. Appropriately, an EARL picked it up. Alison Kilgour reports.

• View from the Hill: Internet Cafes

  John MacColl orders lunch with a portion of e-mail.

• Minotaur: Valerie Mendes

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, publishing consultant Valerie Mendes puts the PC in its place.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside with a few brief words on the perception of knowledge.

• Around the Table

  Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering.

• ELVIRA 4: The 4th UK Digital Libraries Conference (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) Milton Keynes, 6-8 May 1997

  Clare Davies announces the fourth in this series of annual Electronic Library research conferences.

• Review: The Student's Guide to the Internet by Ian Winship and Alison McNab

  Ian Winship and Alison McNab publish cut-price guide, aimed at all students, to the Internet.

• British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines

  Seamus Ross provides the programme for a symposium which seeks to explore how information technology has affected research in the humanities and social sciences.

• Poem: Disembarking at Digby

  Cate Young with this issue's poem. This poem appears in the Web magazine Living Poets , Volume 1, Number VII, April 1996. It is reprinted by permission of the editor.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Sideline: Seagulls and Boomerangs

  In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. John Kirriemuir is the Information Officer for UKOLN and the editor of the Web version of Ariadne.