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Article title	Summary	Date published
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. tooled up	issue8 March 1997
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. tooled up	issue8 March 1997
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. tooled up	issue8 March 1997
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. regular column	issue8 March 1997
Web Access for the Disabled: ASK	Cathy Murtha describes a simple, but effective, library enquiry system, of use to disabled and non-disabled people. regular column	issue8 March 1997
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. regular column	issue8 March 1997
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. regular column	issue8 March 1997
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. regular column	issue8 March 1997
Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum	John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum. regular column	issue8 March 1997
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. regular column	issue8 March 1997
Around the Table – Engineering	Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources. regular column	issue8 March 1997
Interface: Jane Core	Chris Bailey discusses librarians and learning with Jane Core of EduLib. regular column	issue8 March 1997
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. event report	issue8 March 1997
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library	Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London. event report	issue8 March 1997
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. event report	issue8 March 1997
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. event report	issue8 March 1997
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. event report	issue8 March 1997
ELVIRA 4	Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library Visual Information Research Conference, May 1997 in Milton Keynes, UK. event report	issue8 March 1997
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. event report	issue8 March 1997
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. editorial	issue8 March 1997

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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.