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Article title	Summary	Date published
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. feature article	issue2 March 1996
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. feature article	issue2 March 1996
E-print Archives: Key to Paperless Journals	John MacColl on why electronic print archives are the key to paperless journals. feature article	issue2 March 1996
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. feature article	issue2 March 1996
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. project update	issue2 March 1996
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. project update	issue2 March 1996
Netskills: A Major Training Programme	The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater. project update	issue2 March 1996
Interface	Interview with Jill Foster, director of Mailbase and Netskills. regular column	issue2 March 1996
Down Your Way	Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library. regular column	issue2 March 1996
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. regular column	issue2 March 1996
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. regular column	issue2 March 1996
Minotaur	In our regular sceptic's column, information nirvana in the form of the Net has not yet reached Ruth Jenkins. regular column	issue2 March 1996
Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley	Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email. regular column	issue2 March 1996
Sideline	Chris Bailey goes to Heathrow, not to watch the planes but to attend a networking conference. regular column	issue2 March 1996
Copyright Corner	Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems. regular column	issue2 March 1996
Burnside Writes	John Burnside confesses that the electronic page does not provide the experience he wants as a writer or for his readers. regular column	issue2 March 1996
Netskills eLib Project Launch	John Kirriemuir on the Netskills eLib project launch. event report	issue2 March 1996
Report on the 'Networked Information in an International Context' Conference	Chris Bailey at the "Networked Information in an International Context" conference. event report	issue2 March 1996
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. tooled up	issue2 March 1996
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. tooled up	issue2 March 1996

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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.