Articles

Issue 1

• eLib Starts to Deliver

  Ariadne explains how the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a key IT programme for academic libraries, is shaping up.

• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

  Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.

• Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm

  Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

  Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).

• OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information

  Frank Norman, project co-ordinator, describes OMNI, what it can do for you (and you for it). OMNI is an eLib project from the Access to Network Resources programme area. It consists of a well-maintained and expanding database of medical and health resources that can be accessed through JANET/Internet. This database can be searched, via a World Wide Web browser; in addition, catalogues of the resources are available for browsing.

• EduLib: The National Network of Electronic Library Accredited Trainers

  EduLib is an eLib project from the training and awareness section of the programme. Jane Core describes the project, and how it will affect librarians in the Higher Education community.

• CLIC: An Electronic Chemistry Journal

  CLIC is a project from the Electronic Journals area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. Henry Rzepa, from the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, explains the need for journals in the field of Chemistry that use leading edge technology for molecular information storage, retrieval and manipulation.

• Interface

  Interview with Paul Evan Peters, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information.

• Down Your Way

  Loughborough University has a reputation for technological excellence. Its Information Service was revamped last year, and is becoming increasingly dependent upon the Internet. Alison Kilgour reports.

• View from the Hill

  Scottish poet Douglas Dunn waxes lyrical on all things Internet.

• Sceptics Column

  Jim Smith finds that the Internet is no place to do research.

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.

• Sideline

  John MacColl on the delights of sharing the blandest of Midland hotels with a group of eLib project managers for a couple of days.

• Netskills Corner

  Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95.

• From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version?

  In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with.

• Downtime

  Downtime is a regular section containing items to help you unwind from the rigours of networking.

• John Burnside

  John Burnside, fellow in creative writing at the University of Dundee, gives us his thoughts on adapting to 'change'.

Issue 2

• Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update

  Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.

• A MAN for All Reasons?

  Derek Law, the Director of Information Services and Systems at Kings College and chair of JISC's ISSC, details his vision of the cooperation between the library sectors blossoming through the use of Metropolitan Area Networks.

• Alta Vista Vs. Lycos

  Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista.

• E-print Archives: Key to Paperless Journals

  John MacColl on why electronic print archives are the key to paperless journals.

• Spotlight on BIDS

  BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people.

• SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network

  Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers.

• SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway

  SOSIG was established with funding from the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Electronic Libraries' Programme (eLib) funds a Documentation and Training Officer, Lesly Huxley, under the Access to Networked Resources umbrella to raise awareness of - and train people to use - SOSIG. Here Lesly provides background to the service and describes the Internet for Social Scientists workshops she is running at Universities around the country.

• Netskills: A Major Training Programme

  The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater.

• Interface

  Interview with Jill Foster, director of Mailbase and Netskills.

• Down Your Way

  Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library.

• Down Your Very Long Way Away

  We take a look at the library and networking facilities in more remote places around the world; in this issue, we feature the Faroe Islands.

• View from the Hill

  Matthew Evans, Chairman of Faber and Faber and of the recently formed Library and Information Commission, in discussion with Lorcan Dempsey.

• Minotaur

  In our regular sceptic's column, information nirvana in the form of the Net has not yet reached Ruth Jenkins.

• Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley

  Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.

• Sideline

  Chris Bailey goes to Heathrow, not to watch the planes but to attend a networking conference.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside confesses that the electronic page does not provide the experience he wants as a writer or for his readers.

• Netskills eLib Project Launch

  John Kirriemuir on the Netskills eLib project launch.

• Report on the 'Networked Information in an International Context' Conference

  Chris Bailey at the "Networked Information in an International Context" conference.

• From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring

  Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.

• Netskills Corner: NCSA Mosaic Web Browser

  In this Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting.

• Poem and Cartoon

• A Thread of Ariadnes

  One of my previous lecturers jokingly said that once you had a title, logo and an acronym for your project, 80% of the work was done. Except I'm not so sure she was joking, now. Ariadne took (relatively) little time to be decided on as a title, but as it turned out, many other projects around the world, and one in particular in the UK, shared this greek mythological name. This has caused problems; for example, lists of digital libraries/training projects occasionally get us mixed up with the Ariadne project at Lancaster. Dr. David Nichols from this Lancaster project gives a brief run-down of other projects that have taken the name Ariadne.

Issue 3

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 3

  John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne.

• Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib

  We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use.

• Electronic Journals, Evolutionary Niches

  Brian Whalley describes what academics want from their journals and shows how these criteria can be met by an on-line journal.

• AC/DC

  Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain.

• Meta Detectors

  Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK.

• Mailbase Reviewed

  Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK.

• Link: A New Beginning for BUBL

  Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'.

• Short Loan Projects

  John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections.

• ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services

  Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme.

• ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media

  Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

• Sociological Research Online: Web-based Journal for the Social Sciences

  Nigel Gilbert describes Sociological Research Online, a project from the Electronic Journals section of the Electronic Libraries Programme. SocResOnline is a (free) Web-based journal for people involved in Sociology and Sociology-related fields; it contains refereed articles, a substantial number of reviews and debating forums.

• FIDDO: Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options

  Anne Morris, project manager, describes a project from the Supporting Studies area of the eLib programme.

• Internet Archaeology

  Alan Vince, the managing editor of Internet Archaeology, describes an electronic journal that will apply the multimedia aspects of the Web to the field of archaeological research.

• Netskills Corner: Fifth WWW Conference, Paris

  Brian Kelly undertakes the arduous task of attending the 5th WWW Conference in Paris (is there a 'smiley' for 'green with envy'?).

• From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS

  Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs.

• URL Monitoring Software and Services

  Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated.

• ELVIRA

  Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University.

• Anoraks and cardigans (2): New Text Search Engines, Bath, April 1996

  Nigel Ford, who gave the summary address, gives us his impressions of the April 1996 Infonortics conference n Bath on text retrieval.

• UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility?

  Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference.

• CURL OPAC launch

  Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester.

• Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview

  An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant.

• View from the Hill: Rob Ainsley

  Rob Ainsley, editor of a clutch of Internet-based classical music journals, expounds on the dynamics of ejournals on the Internet.

• Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed

  Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of.

• Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries

  Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain.

• Minotaur (Sceptics Column)

  Mary Hope doubts the wisdom of children using the Internet at school.

• Sideline

  Sheona Farquhar makes the mistake of thinking that any conference held outside Aberdeen has to be warmer.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside has a quick look at poetry on the Net.

• Downtime

  Ariadne offers its readers a cartoon, poem, and caption competition.

Issue 4

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 4: Changes to Ariadne and How to Read the Web Version

  The editor explains changes in Ariadne format.

• Are They Being Served?

  Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs.

• Charging Ahead?

  Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• Globally Yours

  Hazel Gott gives a brief overview of the Follett Lecture Series, where overseas experts in the fields of Library and Information Science speak in various UK locations.

• MIDRIB

  Julian Cook describes a project that deals with the storage and access of medical images.

• TAPin: Training and Awareness Programme in Networks

  Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area.

• ResIDe: Electronic Reserve for UK Universities

  Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England.

• ILEJ: Internet Library of Early Journals

  Hugh Wellesley-Smith turns back the clock with a description of the Internet Library for early journals digitisation project.

• JILT: Journal of Information, Law and Technology

  Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law.

• IMPEL2: What Is eLib Doing to Us All?

  Catherine Edwards describes the IMPEL2 project, from the Supporting Studies area of the programme.

• Libtech '96: eLib goes to Libtech '96

  John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at the Libtech '96 event.

• Best eLib Project Web Pages

  In the spring, we held a competition for those eLib projects that had, to date, produced and mounted their own set of Web pages. Here, we announce the winner...

• Research Elsewhere

  John Kirriemuir gives calls attention to articles describing research of interest elsewhere.

• Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection

  Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems.

• TLTP: Teaching and Learning Technology Programme

  Joanna Tiley describes TLTP. The Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK, is a collection of 70+ projects aimed to 'make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology'.

• The Importance of Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS): The European Connection

  David Kay describes ACTS, the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services, a programme under the European Community 4th Framework Research & Technology Development Programme, consisting of around 120 projects.

• NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web

  Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site.

• Netlinks Symposium

  Sarah Ashton reports from the Netlinks Symposium, organised by the Netlinks eLib project and the Department of Information Studies in the University of Sheffield.

• JUGL

  Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

• Cashing in on Caching

  Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it.

• Netskills Corner: Redesigning Your Web Pages?

  Brian Kelly gives some sensible advice on designing (or, as is more likely, redesigning) Web pages.

• Moral Rights

  Charles Oppenheim describes the issues and pitfalls in this often overlooked area of copyright legislation. If you are involved in any digital libraries project that deals with other peoples' material held in an electronic form, read this article.

• Wire: Brian Kelly

  Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking.

• Down Your Very Long Way Away

  J. Correia describes the use of the Internet in Macau.

• Interface

  John MacColl talks to Peter Nathan, acting president and distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Iowa.

• View from the Hill

  John MacColl meets Ian Kingston, a freelance copy-editor, proof-reader and typesetter.

• Minotaur

  Dinty Moore, author of The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, worries about who will be the gatekeepers of online information in the future.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside takes his first tentative step in Web page creation.

• Around the Table

  Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars.

• Poem: Aurelia Aurita

  Ralph Hancock 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: Skinheads in Cambridge

  In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Jim Huntingford is Subject Librarian for Accountancy, Management and Law at The University of Abertay, Dundee.

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.

Issue 6

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 6

  The editor introduces Ariadne issue 6.

• Review of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net

  Marylaine Block describes the construction of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net.

• The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University

  Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter.

• How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled

  George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site.

• Information Strategies Get Down to Business

  John MacColl on the JISC approach to Information Strategies.

• Infopolecon

  John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.

• SOSIG: Training to Support Social Science Teaching and Research

  Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run.

• From Books to Bits

  Ian Brown describes the transition from paper-based to Web-based textbooks, and outlines a novel solution for the production of teaching material within academia.

• Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users

  Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource.

• An Investigation Into World Wide Web Search Engine Use from within the UK: Preliminary Findings

  Simon Stobart and Susan Kerridge give some of the preliminary results of a JISC- funded investigation into the use of Search Engines such as Alta Vista and Lycos within the UK.

• ACORN

  Paula Kingston outlines the ACORN project, which aims to develop a transferable model for the whole process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles.

• Catriona II

  Mary Fletcher introduces a new seeker after Web resources. CATRIONA II is a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the programme.

• MIDRIB

  Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images.

• Networked Learner Support Current Practice Case Base

  Sarah Ashton describes the Current Practice Case Base, an index of links to sites that demonstrate a use of networked learner support.

• ADAM: Bits and Pieces

  Tony Gill presents a few bits and pieces of news regarding the ADAM project which was featured in issue 3 of Ariadne.

• Lessons Learned from Developing and Delivering the BORGES Information Filtering Tool

  Alan Smeaton discusses the development and implementation of BORGES, an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news.

• The BNBMARC Currency Survey

  Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records.

• ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology

  Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives.

• EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!

  Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z).

• Access V Holdings, Cranfield

  Sarah Ashton reports on an event of interest to the Document Delivery community.

• Allerton 1996

  Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science.

• 10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar

  Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement.

• Open Journal Trip Report

  Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation.

• Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day

  Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme.

• Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field.

• Intranets

  Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given.

• Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web

  David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web.

• British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?

  Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research.

• Copyright Battles: The Shetland News

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the Shetland Times versus Shetland News copyright case, and its implications for users of the World Wide Web.

• Public Libraries Corner: Treasure Island on the Web

  Sarah Ormes looks at children's libraries and literacy, and describes the Treasure Island Web pages, a resource that shows how the potential of the Web can be used to make classic texts more accessible to a younger audience.

• Wire: Interview with Glen Monks

  Glen Monks is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• Yahoo: UK and Ireland

  Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland.

• OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human

  Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources.

• Down Your Way: John Moores

  Isobel Stark visits one of the most prominent new university library buildings of recent years.

• Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia?

  The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour.

• View from the Hill: John Hatt

  Alison Kilgour meets John Hatt, traveller's companion turned virtual tourist.

• Minotaur: Nick Gibbins

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Nick Gibbins gives an overview of some of the potential features that the Web does not contain, but a more functional successor to it might.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside on his first classroom experience of 'real' information.

• Around the Table

  Many legal resources are ideal for searching online. Noel Whitty highlights some sites for lawyers.

• Poem: Henry Moore's Family

  Jill Bamber 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, giving a wry spin on the topic of Peer Review.

• Sideline: Boys (and Girls) and Blackstuff

  In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Terry Morrow is Marketing Manager, BIDS (Bath Information and Data Services), University of Bath.

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...

Issue 8

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8

  John Kirriemuir with the editorial for the Web version of Ariadne issue 8.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8

  John MacColl with the editorial for the Print version of Ariadne issue 8.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet

  Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities.

• Late Night News: The Electronic Telegraph

  A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the editors' shift at ET.

• CEI Looks for Bold Response

  John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work.

• The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)

  In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case.

• COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue

  Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC.

• Patient Education: A Role for Multimedia

  Paul Garrud discusses the potential for on-line patient education multimedia.

• INFOMINE

  Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community.

• A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation

  A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation: Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study.

• JEDDS: Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software Project

  Kerry Blinco provides details of a global electronic document delivery project.

• MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services

  Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps.

• RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services

  Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design.

• WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services

  Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project.

• The Resource Discovery Project

  As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks.

• SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library

  Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM.

• Monash University Electronic Reserve Project

  Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.

• Preserving Oral History Recordings

  Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia.

• Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45

  Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45.

• Making a MARC With Dublin Core

  Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records.

• Introducing Web Focus

  UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium.

• From MERCI to DESIRE: European Digital Library Projects

  Dave Hartland writes the Netskills Corner column for this edition. In it, he provides a brief overview of some of the EU-funded Telematics for Research projects.

• Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators

  Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.

• Public Libraries Corner

  In the Public Libraries Corner for this issue, a guest writer, Catherine Wrathall, writes about the current provision of Internet-based community information in public libraries.

• Web Access for the Disabled: ASK

  Cathy Murtha describes a simple, but effective, library enquiry system, of use to disabled and non-disabled people.

• Wire: Interview with Icarus Sparry

  In his own words, Icarus Sparry tells us how what he is doing at the University of Bath, as well as revealing his own opinions on various aspects of networking, such as firewalls and network charging.

• Search Engine Corner

  Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service.

• OMNI Corner: New Societies for the Exploitation of Medicine on the Internet

  Sue Welsh looks at developments of interest to medics publishing on the Internet.

• Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum

  John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum.

• View from the Hill - Jon Ferguy

  Do networks play any part in the making of films? Isobel Stark is shaken (not stirred) when she finds out more from Jon Ferguy.

• Around the Table – Engineering

  Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources.

• Interface: Jane Core

  Chris Bailey discusses librarians and learning with Jane Core of EduLib.

• Down Under With the Dublin Core

  Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra.

• Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library

  Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London.

• Unique Identifiers in a Digital World

  Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UKOLN on the use of unique identifiers in electronic publishing.

• Disabil-IT? Conference

  Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities.

• Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students With Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues

  Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed.

• ELVIRA 4

  Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library Visual Information Research Conference, May 1997 in Milton Keynes, UK.

• eLib and Telematics: Projects and Partnerships

  Jill Beard announces a conference August 1997 in the south of England that aims to bring together people and ideas from the UK eLib and European Telematics communities.

• Survey Results

  John MacColl presents a selection of the comments arising from the first Ariadne readership survey [1]. This article appears in only the Web version of Ariadne.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

Issue 9

• From Aberystwyth to ADAM: Using the Skills Acquired on a Library School Course in the Real World

  Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not) to her current role, developing a network-based subject gateway.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Key to the Stacks

  The Librarian, ably assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal.

• MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine

  Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.

• Never Mind the Quality, Check the Badge-Width!

  Alison McNab, Betsy Anagnostelis and Alison Cooke compare and contrast the methods used to identify and indicate which Internet-based resources are of high "quality".

• Preparing Students for a New Electronic Service

  Preparing students for a new electronic service : Elizabeth Gadd outlines the approaches and experiences of Project ACORN in training and promoting their new electronic 'short-loan' collection.

• The NHS, the Internet and Libraries: The NHS Anglia and Oxford Internet Project

  Judy Palmer and Myles Chippendale describe an initiative that is using the Internet to connect widely dispersed health libraries.

• EEVL

  Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources.

• Eurotext

  In these days of European integration, Freda Carroll, Eurotext project co- ordinator, describes a project that will make European Union documents accessible online.

• CAIN

  Martin Melaugh reports on a site devoted to the Northern Ireland conflict.

• SCOPE

  Leah Halliday believes there is SCOPE for a major shift in the publication of study texts.

• ACORN

  Elizabeth Gadd and Paula Kingston report on progress with Project ACORN.

• REDD: Regional Electronic Document Delivery Service

  Chris Taylor provides details on an Australian electronic document delivery service that is based on standard Internet protocols.

• The Australian Museums on Line Project

  Louise Douglas and Stephen Hall describe the Australian Museums On Line (AMOL) project, which aims to dramatically increase access to the cultural resources of Australian museums via the Internet by 2001 through the AMOL World Wide Web site.

• Monash University Library Electronic Resources Directory

  Lisa Smith describes a system which can be used to help people locate the electronic resources of Monash University Library

• Indian Ocean Rim Region Virtual Library Project

  Susan Lutley describes a prototype virtual library, built as part of a co-operative venture focusing on broad issues in Social Development within the Indian Ocean Rim Region.

• The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia

  Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia.

• Metadata, PICS and Quality

  Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter.

• Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation

  Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

• Internationalisation and the Web

  Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference

  Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997.

• Netskills Corner: The Evolution of HTML - Netscape Gold

  Niall Mackenzie looks at using Netscape Gold for a more automated manner of Web page production.

• Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians

  Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway.

• Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures

  Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes.

• Search Engines Corner: Alta Vista LiveTopics

  Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index.

• Web Access for the Disabled - HOTmetal PRO Helps to Bring Access to the Web

  Cathy Murtha gives some details of an upgrade to a popular Web production tool that will make Web page creation easier for many disabled people.

• OMNI-Corner: Read All about It

  OMNI's Sue Welsh looks at the sites which keep you up to date in health and medicine.

• Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton

  In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies.

• Down Your Way: University of Bath

  Isobel Stark has a look at the new library building (from where the Web version of Ariadne is produced) at the University of Bath.

• View from the Hill: Anne Dixon

  Amy Tucker peers into the future of Physics journal publishing with Anne Dixon

• Around the Table: Social Sciences

  Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources.

• Interface: Dr Isola Ajiferuke

  Sheona Farquhar gains an insight into the problems of the information-poor.

• Minotaur: David Allen and Tom Wilson

  David Allen and Tom Wilson lament the return of IT strategies.

• 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support

  Sarah Ashton introduces the forthcoming 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support, to be held in Sheffield on 23-24 June 1997.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• The Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference

  Nick Gibbins reports from the Hypertext Conference held in Southampton in April 1997

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

Issue 10

• Clifford Lynch in Interview

  Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

• Web Editorial: Goodbyeee

  The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10

  John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version.

• Changing the Lightbulb – Er, the Culture: How Many eLib Projects Does It Take to Change the Higher Education Culture?

  Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss what it takes to change Higher Education culture.

• Cybercollege Scorecard: How Does Your University Score?

  Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning.

• Dublin Core Management

  Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages.

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

  Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.

• Press Release – JISC / Caul Collaboration Agreement

  Kelly Russell outlines the collaboration between JISC and CAUL, and announces the appointment of the post of International Co-ordinator.

• Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research

  Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme.

• Revolutionaries and Captives in the Information Society

  Trevor Haywood on the shackles that bind us to the information revolution.

• Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning

  During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster.

• Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?

  Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

• ACORN Implemented

  Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.

• Education-Line

  Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals.

• ERCOMS

  The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project.

• A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

  Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.

• NISS: National Information Services and Systems

  Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians

• BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians

  Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

• The Library Association Web Site

  Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site.

• r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe

  Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences.

• Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK

  Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK).

• Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface

  Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences.

• OMNI-Corner: LA 97: 'I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Toto!'

  Sue Welsh, the globe-trotting OMNI project manager, presents a report of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association of the U.S.A, held in Seattle from 24 – 28 May, 1997.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine

  The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web.

• Public Libraries Corner: Stories from the Web

  Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project.

• Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top

  Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.

• Interface: Dennis Nicholson

  Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson.

• Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research

  Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997.

• View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski

  John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights.

• Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued)

  Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense.

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web.

• Down Your Way: Thames Valley University

  Sarah Ashton stumbles across a new learning centre in the Thames Valley University.

• Around the Table: Film and Cinema

  Frank Parry discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema.

• The Horse That Isn't There: 1997 US Digital Libraries Initiative Meeting

  Chris Rusbridge reports from the June 1997 US Digital Libraries initiative (DLi) meeting in Pittsburgh.

• Netskills Corner: The 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS)

  Walter Scales summarises the 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS), held on the 23rd and 24th June 1997 in Sheffield.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

Issue 11

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 11

  The Web editor, Isobel Stark, introduces Ariadne issue 11.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 11

  John MacColl presents the editorial from issue 11 of the print version.

• Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries

  Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change in academic libraries.

• Theses Unbound

  Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In part two of this report, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years.

• SKIP: Skills for new Information Professionals

  Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS. This article is an extended version of that which appears in the print edition of Ariadne.

• Edbank

  Hilary Nunn describes this project to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training, based at the Open University Library.

• Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT)

  Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography.

• York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet

  Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

• Cataloguing Electronic Sources

  Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham.

• Cataloguing E-Journals: Where Are We Now?

  Valerie Wilkins reviews the results of a survey, showing a variety of current practices in cataloguing e-journals.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Down Your Way: Queen's University Library

  Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast.

• Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same

  Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project.

• Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes

  Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'.

• The Librarian of Babel: for a Public Reading Right

  The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right.

• Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries

  Rachel Heery examines metadata issues.

• Minotaur

  Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball.

• Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS

  Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG.

• Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative

  Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.

• Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web

  Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

  Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

• Conference Goes One Step Beyond

  John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library.

• Digital Libraries '97

  David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

• SIGIR '97

  David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

• BULISC '97

  John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2.

• Libtech '97

  Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

Issue 12

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 12

  Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark introduce Ariadne, in its Web Version.

• JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution

  Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

  Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

• Old Ghosts Rear Their Heads

  Peter Brophy calls for effective use of email.

• The Lesser of Two EEVLs?

  Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL.

• CINE: Cartoon Images for the Network Education (CINE)

  Frances Blomeley describes the Cartoon Images for the Network Education (CINE) eLib project.

• The History of History

  Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY.

• On Demand Publishing in the Humanities

  Phil Sykes reports on the latest work in On Demand Publishing in the Humanities, an eLib project.

• The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form

  Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site.

• Dotting the I

  Walter Scales examines everyone's favourite Education Gateway, NISS.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library

  Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, Dave Price.

• Interface: Hymns Ancient and Modern

  Lyndon Pugh talks to Mary Auckland, Chair, Committee on Electronic Information (CEI) Content Working Group.

• Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa

  Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki.

• Minotaur: We Must Not Be Driven by IT

  Ray Lester says IT is not just a tool in an information strategy.

• Netskills Corner

  Justin MacNeil reviews FrontPage '98 Beta.

• Planet SOSIG: DESIRE Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model

  Lesly Huxley looks at the work of the project DESIRE: Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model.

• Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song

  Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• View from the Hill: David VandeLinde

  Isobel Stark interviewed Professor David VandeLinde about the Dearing Report.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• The Launch of History

  Isobel Stark reports on the re-launch of IHR-Info as History.

• Consortium and Site Licensing

  Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

Issue 13

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 13

  Lyndon Pugh presents the editorial from issue 13 of the print version.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 13

  Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark present the editorial introduction for the web version of Ariadne 13.

• Dearing, IT and Information Services: Two Cheers (or One and a Half?)

  Lyndon Pugh reviews a serious attempt to square a circle.

• What Do National Libraries Do in the Age of the Internet?

  Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries.

• The Impact of IMPEL

  Jim Huntingford reviews IMPEL, an eLib project.

• The British Library's Digital Libraries Programme

  Lyndon Pugh meets with Sue Howley to discuss the British Library's digital research programme.

• HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)

  Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment).

• Hylife

  Ian Winkworth describes a Hybrid Library project for all.

• M25 Link

  Jean Sykes discusses M25 Link, a virtual clump for London.

• Music Libraries Online

  Celia Duffy describes a virtual music catalogue.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine

  Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine.

• Minotaur

  Louis Schmier finds no miracles in Cyberspace.

• Planet SOSIG: Politically Correct - Editing the Politics Section of SOSIG

  Heather Dawson from The British Library of Political and Economic Science talks about her role as a SOSIG Section Editor.

• Public Libraries Corner: Ask A Librarian

  Sarah Ormes reviews the online reference query service that EARL has developed which draws on the cooperation of 40 libraries around the country.

• View from the Hill

  Ruth Jenkins looks at BIPEx, Bowker Information Professionals' Exchange and meets some of the people behind it.

• Web Focus Corner: The World Wide Web Consortium

  Brian Kelly ponders whether the academic community can have a role in shaping the web of the future.

• What Is an Intranet?

  Glen Monks explains the buzz word: intranet.

• The Online Exhibition: The OMNI Perspective

  Lisa Gray investigates the Online 1997 exhibtion for medical information.

• International FEMIRC Conference, Warsaw

  Philip Hunter reports from the International Conference on Activities in Science and Technology in CEEC towards European Integration, organised by the OPI (Information Processing Centre) in Warsaw .

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

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.

Issue 15

• Web Editorial: Ariadne Issue 15

  Web editor Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 15.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 15

  The Managing Editor, Lyndon Pugh, introduces the print edition of Ariadne issue 15.

• A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?

  David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

• The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources

  Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users.

• Project Patron

  Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online).

• ROUTES Project

  Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project.

• Showing Robots the Door

  Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled.

• What Is XML?

  Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML.

• Project Builder

  Stephen Pinfield outlines the aims of Project Builder, a phase-3 eLib project.

• TAPin

  Kay Flatten outlines the aims of the TAPin project, which is now approaching the publication of its "Impact Study".

• Down Your Way: Centre for Alternative Technology

  Lyndon Pugh visits the Centre for Alternative Technology, somewhere in the UK.

• Interface

  Derek Law talks to Lyndon Pugh about the print / electronic transition, networking, eLib and other matters.

• Minotaur

  Gordon Brewer re-examines the "convergence of services" issue.

• Planet SOSIG

  Lesly Huxley writes about a new Internet service for social scientists.

• Public Libraries Corner: Elvis Is Alive and Well and Selling Library Management Systems in Kansas City

  Sarah Ormes reports from the American Public Library Association conference in Missouri.

• Search Engines Corner

  Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere.

• View from the Hill

  Lyndon Pugh interviews Anne Mumford, head of JISC ASSIST.

• Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference

  Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane.

• RDF Seminar

  Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

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.

Issue 17

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17

  The web editors, Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly, introduce Ariadne issue 17.

• Why Give It Away?

  David Haynes, Elizabeth Lyon and David Streatfield explore the mysteries of devolved budgeting.

• Building on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations

  Clive Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation.

• A New Publication for a New Challenge

  John MacColl and Lyndon Pugh discuss their proposal for a web and print magazine for Information and IT professionals in UK Higher Education.

• Teleworking from Home

  Nicola Harrison, Project Assistant at Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), describes her experience of teleworking.

• DEDICATE

  Nancy Fjaellbrant and Philippa Levy DEDICATE, the European Telematics project for online professional development in information literacy and user education, descended from eLib NetLinkS.

• VERITY

  Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project.

• Down Your Way

  Kathryn Arnold on the electronic university and the virtual campus.

• Interface: The IT Man's Tale

  Lyndon Pugh talks to Phil Brady at the University of Wales.

• Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum

  Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages.

• Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography

  Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences.

• Search Engines

  Tracey Stanley writes about "Ask Jeeves", a search engine which processes natural language enquiries.

• View from the Hill: Mark Clark

  Mark Clark risks the longer view.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management

  Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle.

• What Are Document Management Systems?

  Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems.

• ALA '98

  Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C.

• UKOLUG

  Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference.

• Information Ecosystems

  John MacColl follows up last issue's breakdown of papers with his reflections on the UKOLN conference held in Bath University at the end of June.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Issue 18

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18

  The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18

  Lyndon Pugh presents the editorial from issue 18 of Ariadne's print version.

• Teams

  Lyndon Pugh argues there are signs we are hung up on multi-skilling...

• DiLIS

  Debbie Lock introduces a new service, Distance Learners Information Service (DiLIS), from the University of Surrey Library and Information Services.

• eLib: How Was It for You?

  John Kirriemuir reviews the eLib programme

• Hybrid Libraries

  Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

• Knowledge Management

  Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether.

• I Have Seen the Future and IT Works

  Chris Batt Director of Library Services, Croydon, discusses Information Technology.

• Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case

  Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site.

• Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs

  Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth.

• The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University

  David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form.

• Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services

  Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine.

• Looking Back in Anger: A Retrospective

  Don Revill, former Head of Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a retrospective.

• JSTOR

  Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals

• BIDS Begets Ingenta

  The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered.

• Of Arms and the Man We Sing

  John MacColl talks to Chris Rusbridge about the eLib programme.

• The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)

  Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects.

• Subject-Based Information Gateways

  Linda Kerr and Roddy MacLeod attended the recent CEI meeting at the Policy Studies Institute, London.

• CEDARS

  Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives.

• CATRIONA II Management Survey

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources.

• Down Your Way: University of Abertay Dundee Library

  Ariadne visits the University of Abertay Dundee's new library.

• Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways

  Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

• Minotaur: When Computer Knows Best?

  Harold Thimbleby criticises the urge to upgrade.

• Exploring Planet SOSIG: Sociology

  In this edition, Stuart Macwilliam, the section editor for Sociology, gives an overview of the resources likely to be found in his section. This is preceded by news of some 'mutual mirroring' across the Atlantic, involving SOSIG and the Internet Scout Project.

• Public Libraries Corner

  Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does.

• Search Engines

  Walter Scales responds to Dave Beckett's article on search engines in issue 16.

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

  Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

• What Is a URI?

  Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.

• SGML, XML and Databases

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London

• Metadiversity

  Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Issue 19

• Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19.

• SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project

  Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project.

• Meta-Objects

  Matthew Dovey outlines an Object Oriented approach to metadata.

• Instructional Management Systems

  John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project.

• Web Research: Browsing Video Content

  Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content.

• The DISinHE Centre

  Ian Webb introduces the DISinHE centre.

• The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter

  Stephen Emmott describes his experiences of content management at King's College London.

• Caching In?

  George Neisser describes the National JANET Web Caching Service.

• Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?

  Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux.

• Search Engine Corner

  Phil Bradley reviews recent developments with search engines.

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Resources for Social Scientists

  Pete Maggs discusses finding high-quality Internet resources for social science and methodology, based on his experience as a SOSIG Section Editor.

• OMNI Corner: Information or Hysteria, "Talking sensibly" in the Biomedical Field

  John Kirriemuir outlines current areas of concern in: Information or Hysteria? "Talking sensibly" in the biomedical field.

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

  Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• What Is Apache?

  Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility.

• Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email

  Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser.

• Web Focus: Extending Your Browser

  Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser.

• WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project

  Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project.

• BOBCATSSS 99

  Christine Dugdale reports on the BOBCATSSS 99 conference.

• Information Ecologies: Report of the eLib Conference

  Philip Hunter reports on the eLib conference in York in December 1998, which explored a number of hybrid library, subject Gateway and copyright control issues.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

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.

Issue 21

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread

  Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter.

• An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia

  Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.

• Z39.50 for All

  Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

  Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'.

• The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal

  Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology.

• DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility

  Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility.

• The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond'

  Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

• Search Engines: FAST, the Biggest and Best Yet?

  Phil Bradley explains how 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light.

• Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest

  Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest.

• EEVL: 'Not a Success'

  Roddy Macleod embarks on a tendentious argument.

• Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics

  Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites.

• VITAL services? Evaluating IT access in Public Libraries

  Project officer Juliet Eve discusses the value and impact of end-user IT services in public libraries.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?

  Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services

• Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop

  Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."

• WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

  Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

• Developing the Bath Profile

  Paul Miller with details of the "Bath Profile" - a Z39.50 specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery.

• ALISS: Academic Librarians in the Social Sciences

  Christine Dugdale reports on a conference held in the University of Wales, Bangor.

Issue 22

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 22: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 22, looks at Ariadne's web accesses for the past year, and previews the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER).

• RDN: Resource Discovery Network

  Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network)

• Clumps As Catalogues

  Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?'

• Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue?

  Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing.

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• Digitizing Intellectual Property: The Oxford Scoping Study

  Stuart Lee discusses the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University.

• Delivering the Electronic Library: The ARIADNE Reader

  John MacColl on the new ARIADNE Reader.

• Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach

  Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.

• Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web

  Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows.

• The ResIDe Electronic Library: An Evolving Library Service

  Christine Dugdale looks at the progress of this project to a functional service.

• Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?

  Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together.

• Aerade

  John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce Aerade, an EEVL-related service.

• A Free ISP from the British Library

  Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library.

• The National Internet Accessibility Database (NIAD)

  E. A. Draffon looks at the National Internet Accessibility Database (NIAD).

• Search Engines: The Altavista Relaunch, Personalised Search Engines

  Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and Personalised Search Engines.

• Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• EEVL: Round the World

  Roddy MacLeod considers Southern African engineering resources.

• BIOME: Incorporating the OMNI Service

  Lisa Gray reports on recent developments with the BIOME hub.

• Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update

  Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

• Web Cache: The National JANET Web Cache Progress Report

  George Neisser discusses the plans of the National Caching Service.

• Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site

  Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site.

• Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service

  Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways

  Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

Issue 23

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23.

• So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue?

  Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues.

• The World's Greatest Dictionary' Goes Online

  Juliet New explains the background to the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, launched on the 14 March 2000.

• Review: The Oxford English Dictionary Online

  Pete Cliff previewed the electronic version of this standard reference, and gives a user's verdict.

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

  John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.

• I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?

  Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri.

• What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us?

  Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective.

• Broadband TV

  Philip Hunter links to broadband streaming video resources now emerging on the Internet.

• EPRESS

  Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development.

• A Wired Honduran Christmas

  Eddie Young hooks up to the global network, with some improvised electrical plumbing

• The DISinHE Centre: Web CT Accessibility

  Murray Rowan examines WebCT from the point of view of accessibility.

• Search Engines: 'Ixquick', a Multi-Search Engine With a Difference

  Phil Bradley describes how Ixquick stacks up against the competition.

• Planet SOSIG

  Justine Kitchen of the Resource Discovery Network Centre reports on the recent SOSIG relaunch, and Debra Hiom explores New Learning and Teaching Support Networks in the Social Sciences

• EEVL: EMC Update

  Sheridan Dunkley on the partnership between Islington Libraries, London, and CyberSkills.

• EEVL News Nuggets

  Brian Kelly reports on the use of third-party web services.

• Railway Industry Resources on the Internet

  Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

• CLUMPS Conference at Goldsmiths College, London

  Ariadne reports on the first of two CLUMPS conferences, held on the 3rd of March.

• Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services

  Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites.

• Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March

• Review: in the Beginning... Was the Command Line

  Madeleine Shepherd reviews 'In the Beginning... was the Command Line' by Neal Stephenson.

• Review: Online Searching (Library Association)

  Pete Cliff reviews the Library Association's guide: Online Searching.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

Issue 24

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24.

• Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It?

  Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it.

• Text Encoding for Interchange: A New Consortium

  Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world.

• In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People

  Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.

• Theory and Practice of the Virtual University

  Neil Pollock and James Cornford report on UK universities use of new technologies.

• Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library

  Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering.

• How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online

  Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.

• Agora: From Information Maze to Market

  Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background.

• JSTOR Usage

  Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success.

• Search Engines: The Relevance of Underpants to Searching the Web

  Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques.

• Planet SOSIG

  Heather Dawson with news of the recently merged Social Science Librarians Group.

• EEVL News Nuggets

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs.

• EMC Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs.

• BIOME

  Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

  Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.

• LONGITUDE: The Users in the Digital Landscape

  Linda Berube on the Longitude project, designed to test a toolkit of qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs in the digital library.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

  Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers

  How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers.

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

  Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

• Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

• JASPER Further Education Meeting

  Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Review: Building Community Information Networks

  Pete Cliff reviews 'Building community information networks: strategies and experiences,' edited by Sheila Pantry.

Issue 25

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

  Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

• A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways

  Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

• Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools.

• Electronic Homer

  Martin Mueller reads Homer electronically with the TLG, Perseus, and the Chicago Homer.

• The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies

  George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR.

• Virtual Universities: Institutional Issues for Information Professionals

  Jonathan Foster examines the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals.

• Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas

  Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementers and standards makers.

• Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide

  Stephen Harper analyses in detail a familiar disease.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet

  Phil Bradley offers his latest look at the search engine marketplace.

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite.

• EEVL Backs a Winner

  Roddy MacLeod and the team celebrate their 5th birthday with a day at the races, and supply some EEVL News Nuggets.

• BIOME News

  Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway.

• Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

  Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.

• Public Libraries: I Just Got Back from the Windy City..

  Sarah Ormes reports on the recent American Library Association conference held in Chicago.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites.

• XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors

  Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris.

• DECOMATE II

  Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

  Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press.

Issue 26

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER.

• After eLib

  Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

• Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons

  Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project.

• Building on BUILDER

  Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project.

• AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective

  Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies.

• The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library

  Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.

• Clumps Come Up Trumps

  Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods.

• E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing?

  Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector.

• It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book

  Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective.

• Continuity and Collaboration: The Online Bach Bibliography

  Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach.

• Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA)

  Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library).

• Exam Papers Online

  Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers.

• Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected.

• EEVL

  Roddy Macleod manager of the EEVL project explains the new profile, new office: and coming soon: a new service.

• BIOME News

  Paula Manning with a brief report on the official launch of BIOME at the Royal Society on the 2nd of November 2000.

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

  Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.

• Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch

  Sarah Ormes reports on the recent Public Libraries Web Managers Workshop held in the University of Bath.

• Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV

  Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC.

• Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

  Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

• NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.

• The Future Is Hybrid: London

  Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Review of Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook

  Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier review Stuart Lee's 'Digital Imaging' handbook.

Issue 27

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw

  Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27.

• After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning

  Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning.

• The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model

  John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project.

• The Digital Preservation Coalition

  Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK.

• E-Books for Students: EBONI

  Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations.

• Ancient World, Digital World: Excavation at Halif

  Paul Jacobs on how field and research strategies were impacted significantly by the use of digital technology in the 1999 field season at Tell Halif, Israel (the Lahav Research Project).

• Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project

  Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem.

• Hylife: Ten Steps to Success

  Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project.

• The LEODIS Database

  Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project.

• Search Engines: Robots, Spiders and Your Website

  Phil Bradley looks at the effect these have on your site's vital statistics.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom and Angela Joyce provide more updates on the Social Sciences Gateway, including a new range of European sites.

• EEVL

  Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng with some useful tips on Shoestring Marketing for projects.

• BIOME

  Paula Manning reports on feedback received on the BIOME Service and how the service will develop in response.

• Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata

  Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records.

• Metadata (2): Towards Consensus on Educational Metadata

  Paul Miller describes the work of the UK's new cross-sectoral Metadata for Education Group (MEG) and calls for widespread support of their first deliverable: the MEG Concord.

• Public Libraries: Lights Out and Silver Boots on

  Sarah Ormes with her predictions for the future of Public Libraries and the Internet.

• Web Focus: HTML is Dead!

  HTML is Dead: Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing.

• Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?

  What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Manchester

  Jim Strom and others provide streaming video of some of the sessions from 'The Future is Hybrid' day in Manchester held in February 2001.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

  John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure

  Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure.

Issue 28

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread

  Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28.

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web

  David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics.

• Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges

  Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.

• The eLib Hybrid Library Projects

  Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife

• Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project

  Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history.

• The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution

  Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector.

• Information Skills and the DNER: The INHALE Project

  Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team.

• Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier'

  Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services.

• Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students

  Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments.

• INSPIRAL: Digital Libraries and Virtual Learning Environments

  Sarah Currier introduces the JISC project INSPIRAL, which is investigating what's involved in joining digital libraries and VLEs to create a fully integrated online learning experience.

• Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond

  Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information.

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

  Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver.

• Search Engines: Ask Jeeves

  Phil Bradley looks at Ask Jeeves.

• Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics?

  Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre.

• EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service

• The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative

  Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, supplies information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative set up by Math-Net.

• EEVL: Email Newsletters Examples from Engineering

  Jim Corlett explains how email newsletters can benefit you.

• BIOME: Progressing through Partnerships

  Paula Manning reports on recent collaborations.

• Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research

  Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.

• Minotaur: A Comparison of Six Proposals for Freeing the Refereed Literature Online

  Stevan Harnad argues for the self-archiving alternative.

• Web Focus: Hot News From WWW10

  Brian Kelly reports on the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, held in Hong Kong on 1-5 May 2001.

• Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

  Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

• Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down?

  Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium.

• Virtual Training Suite Launch

  John Kirriemuir reports on the Edinburgh stage of the launch of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Issue 29

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29.

• An Introduction to Web Services

  Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications.

• Architects of the Information Age

  Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.

• Subject Portals

  Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.

• Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions

  Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services.

• Establishing a Digital Library Centre

  John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.

• Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper

  Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials.

• Evolution of Portable Electronic Books

  Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today.

• The People's Network and the Learning Revolution: Building the NOF Digitize Programme

  Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments.

• Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus

  Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus.

• Country and Regional Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at Country and Regional Search Engines.

• Windows NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services.

• Planet SOSIG: SOSIG Expands into Europe

  Louise Woodcock introduces the new European Studies section for SOSIG and Helen Wharam provides an update on the Resource Guide for the Social Sciences.

• Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column.

• Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey

  Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community.

• ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.

• Digital Developments Amidst the Tulips and Windmills

  Christine Dugdale reports on the Digital Library course run as part of the annual Summer School at the Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (TICER B.V.). Netherlands, August 2001.

• Managing Digital Video Content

  Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001.

• Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives

  Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.

• Beyond the Online Tutorial

  Ariadne reports on a one day JISC workshop in Edinburgh on pedagogical issues for projects developing resources for the DNER. (30 August)

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Software Review: C4U

  Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software.

Issue 30

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30.

• Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?

  David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.

• Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge

  Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol.

• Reference Books on the Web

  Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools.

• Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network

  Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.

• Building ResourceFinder

  Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

• The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

  Jenny Rowley introduces the JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

• Managed Learning?

  Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.

• My Humbul: Humbul Gets Personal

  Randy Metcalfe describes new functionality available for users of the Humbul Humanities Hub.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• The Concept of the Portal

  Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board.

• Do They Need to Know?

  Andrew Cox and James Currall on the issue of Web security.

• News from the Resource Discovery Network

  Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen with the latest on developments at the RDN.

• Planet SOSIG

  Phil Cross reports on a recent workshop for subject gateways in Europe and Dave Boyd look forward to developments within the Geography section of SOSIG.

• EEVL: Brand new EEVL service

  Roddy Macleod introduces a new service.

• Search Engines: Goodbye Alta Vista, Hallo AllTheWeb

  Phil Bradley's regular column.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

• Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column.

• Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities

  Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities.

• Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People

  Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001.

• Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless

  Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.

• Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: The Invisible Web

  Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.

Issue 31

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 31: An E-prints Revolution?

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 31.

• Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive

  Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive.

• Oxford Puts Its Reference Works Online

  Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford University Press reference Web site.

• The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme

  Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme.

• The Open Archives Forum

  Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe.

• The JISC Information Environment and Web Services

  Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.

• The AIM25 Project

  Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions.

• Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel

  Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year.

• eVALUEd: An Evaluation Model for e-Library Developments

  Becky Hartland-Fox and Pete Dalton on a project to develop a transferable model for e-library evaluation.

• News from the Resource Discovery Network

  Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• Planet SOSIG

  Emma Place and Dave Boyd describe a new feature on SOSIG called 'Experts Choice', and report on upcoming events.

• EEVL-ution to a Portal

  Roddy Macleod on the hub's 'EEVL-ution' to a portal.

• Search Engines

  Phil Bradley's regular column on search engine technology.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod's second outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

  Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.

• Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers

  Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers.

• Cartoon

  Ace Ariadne cartoonist Malcolm Campbell strikes again.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection

  Penny Garrod reviews a practical guide to electronic resource collection.

Issue 32

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 32: The Grid -The Web Twenty Years On?

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 32.

• The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience.

• Learning Objects and the Information Environment

  Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller discuss the place of Learning Objects in the wider environment of learning.

• Another Piece of Cake?

  Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old.

• NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau

  Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002.

• First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?

  Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib.

• Collection Description in Focus

  Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

  by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

• QA Focus

  Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.

• Public Libraries: Building Better Library Services

  Penny Garrod on the recently published Audit Commission Report: Building Better Library Services.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project.

• EEVL

  Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels.

• Search Engines: The New Kids on the Block - Copying Or Competing?

  Search Engines: Phil Bradley The new kids on the block - copying or competing? This article looks at who is providing the competition for Google and Ixquick, and provides some food for thought for those who use these two search engines.

• Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde.

• UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users

  Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing.

• Web Watch: Revisiting 404 Error Pages in UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly revists 404 Error Pages in UK University Web Sites.

• Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting

  John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware.

• Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002.

• The Information Grid

  Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002.

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• Open Archive Forum Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives

  Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002. CNR, Pisa.

• Oxford Reference Online

  A user review of the Oxford University Press reference site by Pete Dowdell.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Issue 33

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33.

• Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings

  Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience.

• 5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment

  Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE.

• Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

  John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

• Student Searching Behaviour in the JISC Information Environment

  Jill R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy report on work in progress and air some initial findings on the EDNER project, which undertakes evaluation of the developing JISC Information Environment.

• A Speaking Electronic Librarian

  Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services.

• Public Libraries: United We Stand

  Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world.

• Planet SOSIG: A Spring-clean for SOSIG: A Systematic Approach to Collection Management

  Lesly Huxley, Emma Place, David Boyd, and Phil Cross report on a spring-cleaning exercise for SOSIG using a systematic approach to collection management.

• EEVL: Resident EEVL

  Roddy MacLeod provides an update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages.

• Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards

  Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously.

• Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion

  Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.

• Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

  Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

• Portals, Portals Everywhere

  Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms.

• Digital Libraries in China

  Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002.

• OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential

  Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Issue 34

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34.

• Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH

  David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised.

• Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative.

• Exposing Information Resources for E-learning

  Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol.

• Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage

  Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models.

• DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow

  William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow.

• Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002

  Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath.

• Planet SOSIG: Social Science Case Studies

  Dave Boyd provides an update on SOSIG’s involvement in the new RDN FE case studies project, and on developments within the Geography and Environmental Sciences subject sections.

• EEVL: Search Me!

  Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options.

• Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools

  Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities.

• The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

  William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002.

• Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century

  Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002.

• The Personalisation of the Digital Library

  Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002.

• Review: The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services

  Book review by Bruce Royan.

• Review: E-learning and Teaching in Library and Information Services

  Book review by John Paschoud

• Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools

  Book review by Ruth Martin.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Issue 35

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage

  Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35.

• ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive

  Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service

• Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?

  Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice.

• Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project

  Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project.

• Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation

  Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment.

• What Features in a Portal?

  Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.

• Apart from the Weather, I Think It’s a Good Idea: Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals

  Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal.

• Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment

  Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise.

• Creating Websites for e-Citizens: the Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002

  In the first of a series of articles, Penny Garrod takes us through some of the choices confronting UK public libraries, and begins by looking at the ramifications of the DCMS report "Framework for the future".

• Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses

  Alejandro Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs presents a new course for social researchers in Government.

• Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine

  Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals.

• Search Engines: Many Movements in Mere Months

  Phil Bradley looks at various developments that have occurred recently in the ever-shifting scene of the search engine.

• Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

• WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

• Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape

  Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003.

• DELOS CEE Event: Current Trends in Digitisation in Central and Eastern Europe

  Philip Hunter reports on this meeting held in snowbound Torun, Poland, 3-4 February 2003.

• JISC 2003 Conference Report

  Philip Pothen reports on Secretary of State Charles Clarke's view of the importance of ICT in the education sector and the role of the JISC in its implementation.

• Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide

  Lina Coelho reviews a practical guide to the Internet.

• Review: Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers?

  Penny Garrod reviews a book on libraries published by Office for Humanities Communication Publications.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Issue 36

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36.

• Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

  Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

• Developing the JISC Information Environment Service Registry

  Verity Brack and Amanda Closier provide us with an overview of the aims and latest work in the development of the JISC IE Service Registry.

• Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape

  Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.

• eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning

  Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance.

• Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme

• An IMS Generator for the Masses

  Kelvin Hai, David Palmer and Chris Dunlop of the MARTINI Project describe the architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator and show how its flexibility allows it to handle the diverse nature of data held by institutions.

• The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment

  Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

• Just a Distraction?: External Content in Institutional Portals

  Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research.

• MIMAS Ten Years on

  Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre.

• Framework for the Future: Access to Digital Skills and Services (Including e-Government)

  Penny Garrod examines further this government blueprint and argues that some have to walk before they can run.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service.

• EEVL News and Enhancements

  Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL.

• News from BIOME

  Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and Jenny Hall provide us with the first of a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of activity.

• Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at the developments occurring with weblogs and how you can go about searching on or for them.

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

  Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments.

• WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities.

• Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library

  John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• The 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003.

• The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK?

  Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36

  Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual.

• Review: Naked in Cyberspace

  Marieke Guy taps into our increasing collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the use of personal information in the Cyber Age.

• Review: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of one of William Blake's most famous works.

Issue 37

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• Unicode and Historic Scripts

  Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

• Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff

  Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh.

• Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available

  Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides.

• Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

  Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

  Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

• Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification

  Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

  Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

• DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003

• Planet SOSIG

  Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences.

• EEVL News

  Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work.

• News from BIOME

  Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres.

• Search Engines: Would All New Search Engines Take One Step Forward!

  Phil Bradley gives us an overview of emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want to keep an eye on as they develop.

• Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future

  Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit.

• ECDL-2003 Conference Notes

  Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.

• ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

  Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003.

• OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

  Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop.

• Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World

  Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle, Washington.

• OpenURL Meeting

  Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003.

• Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse

  Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Joining Up the Dots

  Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society.

• Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian

  Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series.

• Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services

  Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference.

Issue 38

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 38: The Quality of Metadata Is Not Strained

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38.

• The AHDS Is Evolving: Changes at the Arts and Humanities Data Service

  Alastair Dunning describes the changes afoot at the AHDS and how it intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs of its stakeholders.

• The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?

  Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.

• Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives

  Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions.

• Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester

  Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.

• The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning

  Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.

• The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe

  Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

• DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations

  Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.

• What the Resource Discovery Network Is Doing for Further Education

  Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users.

• How Altis Can Help the Further Education Sector

  Steven Hewitt gives advice on finding quality Internet resources in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism

• What's in Artifact for Further Education?

  Jayne Everard writes about the areas covered by the new subject service Artifact and takes us through the facilities on offer to FE practitioners.

• Further Education and BIOME

  Donald Mackay gives an overview of BIOME, the hub for the health and life sciences in the context of its services for Further Education.

• What's in EEVL for Further Education

  Roddy MacLeod gives an overview of the services and plans EEVL has for students and practitioners in the Further Education sector.

• What's in GEsource for Further Education?

  John Blunden-Ellis provides a view of the material available to FE from GEsource, the RDN subject service for geography and environment.

• What's in Humbul for Further Education?

  Randy Metcalfe provides an overview of the materials and services of use to humanities practitioners in the FE sector.

• What's in PSIgate for Further Education?

  John Blunden-Ellis describes the materials and services available from the RDN subject service PSIgate in respect of students and practitioners in FE.

• What's in SOSIG for Further Education?

  Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners.

• Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future

  Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals.

• Search Engines: The Year 2003 in Perspective

  Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

  Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites.

• Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy

  Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content.

• Web Focus: Improving the Quality of Your HTML

  Brian Kelly outlines a strategy for fixing the most important HTML resources on a Web site.

• The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution

  Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.

• Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries

  Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland.

• Herding Tigers, Part II

  Sophie Clarke describes an event designed to share ideas on accessibility, evaluation and the use of learning technology standards.

• OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service.

• Reaching Out to Your Community: Policies and Practice for Public Library Service

  Fiona Leslie gives an overview of this seminar which covered a variety of topics of interest to public library professionals.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Super Searchers Make It on Their Own

  Lina Coelho looks at the work and lives of independent information professionals prepared to share their secrets for starting and running a research business.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 37, 2003

  Colin Harris declares himself a veteran reader of the ARIST, assesses the kinds of reviewing it performs and balances the strengths and weaknesses of this long-standing publication.

• Book Review: Centred on Learning

  Bruce Royan takes a structured look at this series of case studies and analyses their view of the Learning Resource Centre phenomenon.

Issue 39

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 39: Humanity V Technology, Which Is in the Driving Seat?

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 39.

• A National Archive of Datasets

  Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users.

• Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme

  Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies.

• RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH

  Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

• Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment

  Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services.

• Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage?

  Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage.

• IT for Me: Getting Personal in South Yorkshire Public Libraries

  Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries.

• Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project

  Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository.

• Public Libraries: The Changing Face of the Public Library

  Penny Garrod looks at developments in Hampshire and comments on the shape of things to come.

• Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports

  This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.

• EEVL News: EEVL, VLEs, Institutional and Library Portals

  Malcolm Moffat discusses the use of EEVL functionality in VLEs and Portals.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Search Engines: The Google Backlash

  Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing.

• Web Focus: Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

  Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

• The Collection Description Schema Forum

  Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February.

• JISC Terminology Services Workshop

  Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004.

• The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World

  John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi, India, 24-27 February 2004.

• ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon

  Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval

  Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition but has reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject.

• Book Review: Extreme Searchers' Internet Handbook

  Verity Brack reviews a book on Internet resources and finds it a useful volume for Internet beginners and Google-centric searchers.

• Book Review: Developing Academic Library Staff for Future Success

  Stephen Town considers this new multi-author volume, appreciates its many qualities and reflects on the key issues for library staff development in the digital future.

• Book Review: The Accidental Webmaster

  Andy Prue examines a guide aimed at inexperienced Webmasters. While the book covers some interesting and salient points, Andy raises questions as to the ideal audience.

Issue 40

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40.

• Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

• Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements

  Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.

• An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)

  Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses.

• Collection-level Description: Thinking Globally before Acting Locally

  Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry.

• Tap Into Bath

  Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath.

• Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service

  Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

• The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources

  Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers.

• Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository

  Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository.

• Public Libraries: Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries?

  Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users.

• Planet-SOSIG

  This month Neil Jacobs introduces a new book for information professionals in the social sciences and Heta Virnes describes her experience of running virtual helpdesks for SOSIG.

• EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want

  Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Search Engines: A Mixed Bag - A Review of Some New Search Engines

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some new search engines to see if they are up to challenging the top dogs.

• WebWatch: Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability

  Dey Alexander and Derek Brown demonstrate how the layout of a Web page has a direct influence upon users' capacity and willingness to engage with a Web site.

• Web Focus: The Web on Your TV

  Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room.

• PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing

  Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.

• World Wide Web Conference 2004

  Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

• The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference

  Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July.

• Support Models for Open Source Deployment

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

  Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Information Architecture - Designing Information Environments for Purpose

  John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole.

• Book Review: Managing Your Internet & Intranet Services

  David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but finds unfortunate omissions as well as beneficial inclusions.

• Book Review: Staying Legal

  Stuart Hannabuss examines an interesting collection of essays and, with reservations, likes the second edition a lot more.

• Book Review: Developing Web-based Instruction

  Lyn Parker finds this compilation a useful overview of the issues involved in developing e-learning and a valuable addition to the literature.

• Book Review: Net Effects

  Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values.

Issue 41

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41.

• ISBN-13: New Number on the Block

  Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade.

• The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace

  Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace.

• Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation

  Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area.

• Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project

  Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services.

• The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience

  Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output.

• What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?

  Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources.

• How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries

  Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences.

• EEVL News: EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Search Engines: New and Developing Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at some existing search engines and also some new ones to bring you up to date on what is happening in the world of Internet search engines.

• Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings

  Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers.

• Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA

  Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles.

• ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report

  Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004.

• ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004

  Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004

  Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation.

• The JIBS Workshop on Resource/Reading List Software - the Reality

  Frances Boyle reports on the one-day workshop on the current state of play in the Resource/Reading List software market, held at the SaÔd Business School, University of Oxford, on 9 September 2004.

• e-Culture Horizons: from Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences

  Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September 2004.

• Digital Resources for the Humanities

  Alastair Dunning reviews for us this year's conference on Digital Resources in the Humanities held at the University of Newcastle over 5-8 September 2004.

• Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability

  Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5

  David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners.

• Book Review: Knowledge Management Lessons Learned

  Martin White praises the work of the editors on the 32 essays covering how KM initiatives can deliver tangible outcomes and takes a practical and balanced view of their overall value.

• Book Review: Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age

  Chris Awre finds a useful if limited introduction for those coming new to the field of information representation and retrieval, but is unconvinced by its overall coverage and depth.

• Book Review: The Web Library

  Lina Coelho looks at a book she feels is destined to repay its purchase price even if you never manage to read it all.

• Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change

  Lise Foster finds this a useful scene setter for the novice and valuable reminder for the professional of the challenges facing today's librarian.

Issue 42

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 42: Less Could Mean More

  Richard Waller provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne issue 42.

• Assessing the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the FE and HE Sectors

  Steve Bailey describes how the FE and HE sectors have prepared for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and what challenges still lay ahead.

• Freedom of Information in University College Dublin 2001-2004

  Rena Lohan outlines how access rights conferred by FOI legislation have affected administrative operations in University College Dublin.

• Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid

  Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment.

• Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy

  Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education.

• The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives

  Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics.

• Tracing Help With Copyright: New AHDS Case Studies on Copyright Issues

  Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield of respecting copyright.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

  Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.

• A Librarian's Experience of E-Government

  Jane Inman describes the route she has taken as a librarian through the expanding landscape of e-government and highlights the skills librarians can bring to this arena.

• Fast-Forward on the Green Road to Open Access: The Case Against Mixing Up Green and Gold

  Stevan Harnad provides a summary of his critique of Jean-Claude Guédon's views on the green and gold roads to Open Access.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque

  Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Search Engines: No Longer about Search

  Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?'

• Mozilla Firefox for Rapid Web Development and Testing

  Patrick Lauke takes a quick look at Firefox, the new browser released by the Mozilla Foundation, and points out useful features and extensions for Web developers.

• Looking for a Google Box?

  Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance.

• Web Focus: Experiences of Using a Wiki for Note-taking at a Workshop

  Brian Kelly describes how the Wikalong Wiki tool was used to support note-taking at a workshop.

• Shibboleth Installation Workshop

  James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK.

• Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century

  John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November.

• Participate in Your Future: The IST2004 Event

  Gabriella Szabo reports on a three-day event addressing European policies, strategies and research activities in all areas of the Information Society held in The Hague.

• Freedom of Information and the Historian

  Stephen Twigge reports on a one-day conference on Freedom of Information and the Historian jointly hosted by The National Archives and the Institute of Historical Research.

• Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

  Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society.

• Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts

  Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.

• A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre

  Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004.

• Tap Into Bath Takes Off

  Stephanie Round covers the launch of a small but promising collaborative effort.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: How to Find Information

  Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition.

• Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing

  Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Policy, Planning and Practice

  Bruce Royan considers the ironies of communicating the state of the art of digital libraries by means of a print publication.

Issue 43

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43.

• Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery

  Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments.

• Trust in Global Virtual Teams

  Niki Panteli identifies ways of developing trust within global virtual teams.

• National Library Goes Local

  Stephanie Kenna and Sue Cook tell the story behind the British Library's online training package for public library staff.

• Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions

  Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK.

• Digital Preservation: Best Practice and Its Dissemination

  Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use in training and professional practice.

• E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools

  Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities.

• Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet

  Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading.

• What Are Your Terms?

  Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Paul Ayres examines how the SOSIG Subject News blog is keeping users up to date and providing reusable site content at the same time.

• EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available

  Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Search Engines: Using the Right Search Engine at the Right Time

  Phil Bradley takes a look at which search engines to use depending on what you need to find..

• Installing Shibboleth

  Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly.

• Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road

  Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office.

• EuroCAMP 2005

  Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino.

• Waking Up in the British Library

  Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature.

• United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005

  Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

• 10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest Group Meeting

  Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal learning profiles.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Principles and Practice in a Global Environment

  Chris Awre welcomes a useful overview of the global digital library scene that will help both those coming new to this area and those wishing to broaden their appreciation of what is involved in developing a digital library.

• Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval

  Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional.

• Book Review: Managing Digital Rights - A Practitioner's Guide

  Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it.

• Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection

  Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners.

Issue 44

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 44: One Day We All Learn the Hard Way

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 44.

• Creative Archive

  Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC.

• Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions

  Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.

• Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool

  Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool.

• Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit

  Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites.

• Revealing All

  Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people.

• Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible E-Learning

  Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context for their use.

• Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity

  Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating.

• Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project

  Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

• Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community

  Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week.

• EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips

  Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the Latest Developments

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments at Google.

• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility With Firefox

  Patrick Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.

• Web Focus: The WWW 2005 Conference

  Brian Kelly provides his impressions including reports of areas of doubt and uncertainty - but also of an exciting new development.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

  Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

• IWMW 2005

  Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005.

• Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005.

• DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers

  Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites

  Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content.

• Book Review: The Academic Library

  Ruth Jenkins wishes this textbook had been available when she was a library school student.

• Book Review: Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives

  Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches to disaster management.

• Book Review: Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library

  Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library.

Issue 45

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 45: Smaller Might Be Beautiful

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 45.

• Web 2.0: Building the New Library

  Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations.

• Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks

  Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards.

• Looking for More Than Text?

  Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments.

• Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective

  Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

• A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories

  Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands.

• DARE Project Chronology

  To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project.

• DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service

  Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service.

• Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication

  Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Flora Watson introduces a new podcasting service from Biz/ed and Angela Joyce reports on the latest developments in the Eurostudies section of SOSIG.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network .

• Search Engines

  Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines.

• Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process

  Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process.

• Web Focus: Must Email Die?

  Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear.

• Distributed Services Registry Workshop

  John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005.

• DC 2005

  Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005.

• Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here?

  Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005.

• Building the Info Grid

  Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources

  Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed.

• Book Review: Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services

  Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the acquisitions field.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)

  Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

Issue 46

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding

  John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

  Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.

• What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

  Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.

• The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

  Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

• Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice

  Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years.

• Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects

  Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Google Challenges for Academic Libraries

  John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments.

• Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

  Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.

• Accessibility Testing and Reporting With TAW3

  Patrick Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to aid in accessibility testing of Web pages.

• C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series

  Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006.

• Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade

  Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005.

• JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses

  Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006.

• Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites

  Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at this series of personal and researched historical analyses of the history of computerised information retrieval systems, and finds it makes fascinating reading if you are interested in such things.

• Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

  Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

• Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture

  Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context.

• Book Review: Managing Electronic Records

  Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management.

• Book Review: E-metrics for Library and Information Professionals

  Elizabeth McHugh learns about the importance of locally produced e-metrics and how they could be produced using available technologies.

• Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres

  Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings.

• Book Review: Developing the New Learning Environment

  Stephen Town welcomes this new text on a key issue for the future of academic librarians, and suggests some broader questions for consideration.

Issue 47

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 47: Keeping What We Know

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47.

• Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be

  Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come.

• Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach

  Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery.

• Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico

  Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need.

• Retrospective on the RDN

  Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.

• RDN Timeline

  Debra Hiom provides a timeline of the RDN's development, which accompanies her main article.

• QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework

  Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach.

• Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System

  Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development.

• Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers

  R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment.

• Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging

  Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that.

• Serving Services in Web 2.0

  Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers.

• The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference

  Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference.

• Code4lib 2006

  Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems.

• Digital Policy Management Workshop

  Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006.

• The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting

  Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006.

• The Digital Library and Its Services

  Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: The Institutional Repository

  Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories.

• Book Review: Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics

  Sheila Corrall reviews a new landmark book which explains and promotes a distinctive approach to information-related research spanning traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries.

• Book Review: The Virtual Reference Desk

  Lina Coelho feels that digital reference has come of age and that this work is one of its adornments where reference information professionals are concerned.

• Book Review: The Successful Academic Librarian

  Stephen Town finds this US multi-author work may not meet the needs of readers in the UK, and offers some ideas which a UK version might incorporate.

Issue 48

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48.

• Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise

  Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.

• Intute: The New Best of the Web

  Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

• UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go from Here

  Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report.

• Accoona: Super-Charged Super Target Searching

  Phil Bradley puts a relative newcomer through its paces and finds some very useful features together with potential for improvement.

• The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on

  Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

• ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith

  Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings.

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

  Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

• IWMW 2006: Quality Matters

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.

• C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series

  Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006.

• Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation

  Dave Thompson reports on a two-day conference on Email Curation organised by the Digital Curation Centre.

• JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006

  Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• Fedora Users Conference

  Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006.

• CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League

  Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Blended Learning and Online Tutoring

  Lyn Parker considers that this book meets its aim of providing practical advice for tutors and staff developers engaged in online activities and blended learning.

• Book Review: Managing Change

  Donald Maclean reviews a text that lays down guidelines for information managers attempting to analyse, implement and evaluate change within their organisation.

• Book Review: Evaluating the Impact of Your Library

  David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology.

• Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition

  Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort.

Issue 49

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49.

• Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?

  Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.

• From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project

  Masako Suziki and Shigeki Sugita describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles.

• Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository

  Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.

• e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?

  Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.

• GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal

  Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal.

• Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis

  Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.

• Video Streaming of Events

  Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.

• RDA: A New International Standard

  Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).

• Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?

  Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.

• DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning

  Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.

• e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and Other VREs for the Social Sciences

  Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications.

• Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...

  David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006.

• Workshop on E-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals

  Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals

  Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.

• Book Review: Ambient Findability

  Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.

• Book Review: Teach Beyond Your Reach

  Lina Coelho looks at this Instructor's guide to developing and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more.

Issue 50

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50.

• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

  Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

• Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education

  Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim provide an overview of some considerations for change agents attempting to introduce an innovative new information communication technology service into Higher Education institutions.

• Web Curator Tool

  Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.

• New Search Engines in 2006

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments.

• ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms

  Francis Cave, Brian Green and David Martin describe the purpose, development and potential of standards for the electronic communication of licensing terms between publishers, libraries and other licensees.

• Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

  Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

• Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem

  Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation.

• What Happens When We Mash the Library?

  Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'.

• Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis

  Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.

• JISC CETIS Conference, 2006

  Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006.

• 2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice

  Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.

• Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation

  Alastair Dunning reports on a conference in Florence about the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material.

• Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers

  With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems

  Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

• Book Review: Digital Preservation

  Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series.

• Book Review: Google Hacks

  Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming 'know-how' to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible.

• Book Review: Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography

  Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson.

Issue 51

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51.

• Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project

  Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level.

• The W3C Technical Architecture Group

  Henry S. Thompson introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work.

• ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects

  Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government.

• Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project

  Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme.

• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching

  Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions.

• Search Engines: Why Ask Me, and Does 'X' Mark the Spot?

  Phil Bradley takes a look at different versions of Ask to see how it is developing and looks at how it is emerging from its servant roots.

• Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service

  Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers.

• Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management

  Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation.

• Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production

  It's not like writing a paper. Film production, when the camera points at you, can challenge all sorts of sensitivities. Steve Hitchcock survived the ordeal to tell the story of the Preserv Project video.

• OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web

  Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning.

• The JISC Annual Conference 2007

  Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference.

• What Is an Open Repository?

  Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007.

• KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life

  Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: E-learning and Disability in Higher Education

  Simon Ball reviews a comprehensive discussion of e-learning and accessibility that gives support and guidance to effect good practice from individual to institutional level.

• Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills

  Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors.

• Book Review: Digital Literacies for Learning

  Pete Cliff reviews a work that challenges traditional notions of literacy and how suggests that new literacies need to be developed to empower both learners and teachers in the digital age.

• Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

  Keith Doyle reviews the 3rd edition of the primary reference book for practising in-house staff and consultants responsible for the development of institutional information architecture.

• Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide

  Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples.

Issue 52

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52.

• DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories

  Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study.

• ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository

  David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF.

• Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries

  Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries.

• The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates

  Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback.

• Repository Thrills and Spills

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative.

• Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors

  Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work.

• 24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future

  As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years.

• IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library

  Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool.

• EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community

  Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK.

• Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University

  Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community

  Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop.

• Repositories Support Project Summer School

  Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team.

• JASIG June 2007 Conference

  Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007.

• ALPSP Conference

  Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007.

• Digital Repositories: Dealing With the Digital Deluge

  Pete Cliff gives an overall view of the multi-stranded JISC conference held in Manchester over 5-6 June 2007.

• Blogging from the Backroom

  Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007.

• Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?

  Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

  John MacColl reviews the first two volumes of this very substantial three-part work, covering the periods to 1640 and 1640-1850.

• Change Management in Information Services

  Ian Lovecy examines change theories and strategies, and their application to creating a change culture in an information service.

• Book Review: Managing the Test People

  Lina Coelho expected a book that would challenge her technical knowledge and understanding but found a readable and useful guide for the time-pressed manager.

Issue 53

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53.

• The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future

  Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services.

• The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online

  Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe.

• DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe

  Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe.

• The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands

  Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

• Further Experiences in Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

  Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson continue discussing plans for the engagement with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

• Googlepository and the University Library

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education.

• The Second Life of UK Academics

  John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.

• DC 2007

  Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore.

• Knowledge by Networking: Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe

  Alastair Dunning reports on an international conference exploring the current state of digitisation in the worlds of culture and scholarship, held in Berlin over 21-22 June 2007.

• Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges

  Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

• ECDL 2007

  Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007.

• The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'

  Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues.

• Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day.

• Enabling Knowledge Communities

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides further information about enabling knowledge communities.

• Further Information on SNOMED-CT

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides further information on SNOMED-CT.

• V&A Core Systems Integration Project

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides more information on V&A Core Systems Integration Project.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

  Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.

• Book Review: Principles of Data Management

  Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British Computer Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues and benefits of data management across an enterprise.

• Book Review: Listen Up! Podcasting for Schools and Libraries

  Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential to take library services and activities to new audiences.

• Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur

  Stephanie Taylor tries to curb her enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by investigating the dark side of social networking.

• Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition

  Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic.

Issue 54

• We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54.

• Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?

  Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

  Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

• Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and Roundup

  Phil Bradley looks at the major contenders and discusses the value of this type of search engine.

• Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes

  Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools.

• RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for Day-to-day Use

  Richard Green and Chris Awre describe work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart of its personalised digital repository provision.

• E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK

  Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities.

• Version Identification: A Growing Problem

  Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project.

• Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks

  Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context.

• Saving Energy in the Workplace

  Eddie Young outlines some of the issues faced by a Systems Administrator when trying to save energy in the workplace.

• Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks

  Gill Ferrell reports on a one-day workshop about Blogs and Social Networks, held in Birmingham in November 2007.

• Global Research Library 2020

  Jessie Hey and David Pearson report on a series of strategic workshops on the Global Research Library 2020 - the first of which, the Willows Lodge Workshop, was held in the Pacific North West of the US in the Autumn of 2007.

• MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology

  Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence

  Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets.

• Book Review: Digital Copyright

  Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property.

• Book Reviews: Digital Information and Knowledge Management, and Print Vs. Digital

  Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship, information providers and library users.

• Book Review: The University of Google

  Judy Reading reviews a work that may engender considerable debate in months to come.

• Book Review: Blended Learning

  Brian Whalley reviews Barbara Allan's book on blended learning for Information and Library Science staff and educational developers.

Issue 55

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.

• Custom-built Search Engines

  Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines.

• Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008

  Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata.

• South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides

  Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.

• Towards an Application Profile for Images

  Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC.

• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch

  Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

• Intute Integration

  Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

• Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia

  Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

• Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative

  John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.

• Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections

  Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library.

• KIM Project Conference 2008

  Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

• Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008

  Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND.

• The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008

  Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond.

• VIF: Version Identification Workshop

  Sarah Molloy reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008.

• Libraries of the Future

  Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: The Thriving Library

  Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times.

• Book Review: Digital Information Culture

  Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies.

• Book Review: Information and Emotion

  Stephanie Taylor finds in Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory new ways to understand the emotions of users in a collection of work from the US information behaviour community.

• Book Review: Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion

  Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements.

• Book Review: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

  Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects.

Issue 56

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 56: More Light Than Heat

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 56.

• Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice

  Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement.

• New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies

  Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies.

• Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment

  Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working

  Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation.

• Being Wired Or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope With Information Overload

  Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload.

• Lost in the JISC Information Environment

  Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment.

• Search Engines: Google Still Growing

  Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good.

• Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options

  Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.

• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate

  Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008.

• The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference

  Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008.

• A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator

  Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008.

• Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008.

• Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting

  Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008.

• Open Repositories 2008

  Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Visualizing Data

  Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work.

• Book Review: What's the Alternative?

  Lina Coelho takes an enthusiastic view of the opportunities open to library and information professionals presented in this career-enhancing book.

• Book Review: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0

  Emma Delaney considers the effects of Web 2.0 on delivering information literacy to library students and end-users.

• Book Review: Copyright Compliance

  Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy.

• Blended Learning and Online Tutoring: Planning Learner Support and Activity Design

  Lyn Parker does not consider that the second edition has changed considerably from the first edition despite the publishers' blurb to the contrary. Nonetheless, she feels there is much of value.

• Book Review: Web Accessibility

  Martin White reviews a book that provides advice for managers on how to ensure that Web sites, intranets and library services are fully compliant with guidelines and legislation on accessibility.

Issue 57

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

• Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content

  Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.

• Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access

  Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.

• Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers

  Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.

• Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective

  Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library.

• A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions

  R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.

• A Selection of Social Media Search Engines

  Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is being indexed, sorted and made available for searching by looking at some representative samples.

• What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub

  Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site.

• OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation

  Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference

  Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

• Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future With Planets

  Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008.

• Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution

  Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

• eResearch Australasia 2008

  Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008.

• iPRES 2008

  Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Website Optimization

  Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband.

• Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World

  Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.

• Book Review: Patent Failure - How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

  Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key assumptions about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective.

• Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

  Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

• Book Review: Against the Machine

  Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.

Issue 58

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58.

• Editorial Addendum to Issue 58: Ariadne Readers Survey

  Richard Waller introduces the Ariadne survey.

• Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative

  Ann Borda reports on the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI).

• Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility

  Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector.

• The MrCute Repository: The Next Phase

  Helen Brady describes the MrCute repository project and its potential impact on the digital learning object-sharing community.

• Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles

  Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC.

• The European Film Gateway

  Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe.

• An Awfully Big Adventure: Strathclyde's Digital Library Plan

  Derek Law describes how the University of Strathclyde is choosing to give priority to e-content and services instead of a new building.

• Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship

  Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content.

• dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days

  Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009.

• Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics

  Richard Mount reports on the First Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics, held at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), Hamburg, Germany, on 26-28 January 2008.

• Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting

  Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Presentation Zen - Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

  Marieke Guy gets in touch with her inner PowerPoint Zen.

• Book Review: Integrating Geographic Information Systems Into Library Services

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a much needed work on offering GIS services in libraries.

• Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata

  Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice.

• Book Review: Transformative Learning Support Models in Higher Education

  Sarah Ward considers a work which brings together perspectives on learner support from academics, librarians and student support professionals.

Issue 59

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 59: The Loneliness of the Long-distance Worker

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 59.

• e-Framework Implements New Workplan

  Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research.

• The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment

  Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content.

• A Support Framework for Remote Workers

  Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.

• Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare

  Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution.

• To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?

  Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa.

• EThOS: from Project to Service

  Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.

• Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR

  Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.

• Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe

  Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union.

• Publish and Cherish With Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems

  Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders to extend OA publishing conditions by stimulating the market.

• The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009

  Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009.

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society

  Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009.

• Handshake Session at International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam

  Adrian Stevenson highlights the Handshake Session which formed part of the International Repositories InfrastructureWorkshop, at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Amsterdam, held over 16-17 March 2009.

• NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability

  Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana University, on 26-27 March 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Making Digital Cultures - Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity

  Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both challenging and thought-provoking.

• Book Review: Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up?

• Book Review: Reader Development in Practice

  Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches to the topic of reader development.

• Book Review: Sketching Tomorrow - The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology

  Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of modern society to information and communication technologies and observes more sins of omission than commission.

Issue 60

• Editorial: Passing of a Seasoned Campaigner

  Richard Waller does not introduce Ariadne Issue 60.

• SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York

  Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York.

• Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers

  Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities.

• Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences

  Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian introduce the OJIMS Project and discuss the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences.

• Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context

  Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.

• Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project

  Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project.

• The Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project

  Sue Hawkins and Andrea Tanner describe a ground-breaking Web site using children's hospital admission registers.

• E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators

  Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment.

• Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?

  Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority.

• The Norwegian National Digital Library

  Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

• Missing Links: The Enduring Web

  Alexandra Eveleigh reports on a workshop on Web archiving, organised by the DPC, JISC and UKWAC at the British Library on 21 July 2009.

• The Second International M-Libraries Conference

  Keren Mills reports on a two-day conference exploring and sharing delivery of services and resources to users 'on the move,' via mobile and hand-held devices.

• Why Pay for Content?

  Charles Oppenheim reports on the half-day event organised by the Publishers Association at the Faraday Lecture Theatre, Royal Institution, London on 24 June 2009.

• JISC Digital Content Conference 2009

  Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

• Open Repositories 2009

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009.

• Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources

  Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization.

• Eduserv Symposium 2009: Evolution Or Revolution: The Future of Identity and Access Management for Research

  Shirley Williams reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme investigate the intersection between identity management, access management and scholarly research collaboration across institutional and geographic boundaries.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Digital Consumers - Reshaping the Information Professions

  Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work which examines digital consumers from both an historical and future perspective.

• Book Review: GLUT - Mastering Information through the Ages

  Martin White enjoys a random walk through a historical survey of humanity's quest to classify and categorise information.

• Book Review: Libraries Designed for Kids

  Sara Wingate Gray considers a practical guide to implementing design change in children's libraries and how to manage a consistent approach.

• Editorial Addendum to Issue 60: Snapshot of the Global Economy, Summer 2009

  Richard Waller collects images and links describing economic conditions in 2009.

Issue 61

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61.

• Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0

  Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world.

• Search Engines: Real-time Search

  Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find when exploring these engines.

• How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project

  Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.

• Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications

  Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one.

• Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian

  Michael Kennedy discusses the value of Archives 2.0 to the online version of Ireland's 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' series.

• UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery

  Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities.

• Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme

  Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme.

• Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library

  Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue.

• Internet Librarian International 2009

  Katherine Allen reports on Internet Librarian International 2009 which took place in London on 15 and 16 October 2009.

• Live Blogging @ IWMW 2009

  Kirsty McGill provides a live blogger perspective on the three-day Institutional Web Managers Workshop, held by UKOLN at the University of Essex, Colchester, in July 2009.

• The RSP Goes 'Back to School'

  Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper

  Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations.

• Book Review: Information Tomorrow

  Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries.

• Book Review: M-Libraries

  Simon Speight reviews a collection of papers from the First International M-Libraries Conference, which examined potential library uses of mobile phones and other portable technology.

Issue 62

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62.

• Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles

  Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments.

• Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management

  Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.

• An Attack on Professionalism and Scholarship? Democratising Archives and the Production of Knowledge

  Andrew Flinn describes some recent developments in democratising the archive and asks whether these developments really deserve to be viewed as a threat to professional and academic standards.

• Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London

  Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool.

• Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data

  Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford.

• A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies

  Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research.

• Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers

  Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

  Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.

• Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?

  Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.

• Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting

  Chris Awre reports on the first coming together of two regional user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the University of Oxford in December 2009.

• The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event

  Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS.

• The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers

  William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources.

• Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context

  Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository.

• Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

  Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did!

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Copyright - Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services

  Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback.

• Book Review: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture

  Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism.