Issue 7

• OMNI Seminar

  Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar.

• Mind the Gap!

  Sheila and Robert Harden describe the making of their public library Web pages.

• Creating Models for Electronic Citations

  Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger outline the case for better referencing of electronic sources.

• Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF

  Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF.

• Print Journals: Fit for the Future?

  Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate.

• SCRAN: A Taste of Scotland and Food for Thought

  Bruce Royan outlines an epic millennium project to digitise much of the culture and heritage of Scotland.

• A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site

  A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World.

• Networking Moving Images

  Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications.

• Promoting the Internet to Staff at a UK University

  Paul Hollands is the human part of a project to promote the use of Internet based information services among teaching and research staff at the university; in his own words, this is how the project has progressed to date.

• IPL: The Internet Public Library

  Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library.

• Public Libraries, Public Support? the Mission Behind Buildings, Books and Bytes

  Laura Weiss outlines a major American survey that looked at the disparity between key librarians views of the future, and what the public who used those libraries really wanted.

• Biz/ed

  Catherine Sladen describes an information gateway for Business Studies and Economics.

• DeLiberations

  Graham Alsop explains how an interactive electronic magazine can improve teaching methods.

• ERIMS

  Catherine Hanratty issues a call to ERIMS.

• ESPERE

  Dee Wood reports on the Electronic Submission and Peer Review Project.

• MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services

  Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities.

• Data Archive at the University of Essex

  Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities.

• Controlling Access in the Electronic Library

  Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication.

• MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core

  Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows.

• Handling MARC With PERL

  Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records.

• The British Libraries Private Finance Initiative

  The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne an exclusive on its Private Finance Initiative.

• Public Libraries Corner: Life After the Millenium Bid

  After the recent disappointing turn-down of the millenium bid to connect public libraries to the Internet, Sarah Ormes wonders where we go from here.

• Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme

  After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen.

• Web Access for the Disabled

  Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources.

• Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins

  Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web

  Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with.

• OMNI Corner

  In her regular appearance in Ariadne, Sue Welsh, introduces a new experiment in network indexing underway at OMNI.

• Down Your Way: Durham

  Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project.

• View from the Hill

  John MacColl quizzes John Kelleher of the Tavistock Institute about the E-word.

• Minotaur

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside on pornography and the Internet.

• Around the Table: Health and Medicine - What Can Medics Get Out of the Internet?

  Sue Welsh of the eLib OMNI project visits some of the medical sites.

• Interface: Les Carr Interview

  Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Sideline: Nick Hornby Made Me Do It..

  In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Here, Sarah Ashton has fun with public transport as she tries to reach Cranfield with increasing desperation...