Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary | Date published |
|---|---|---|
| Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries |
Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain. |
May 1996
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| Minotaur (Sceptics Column) |
Mary Hope doubts the wisdom of children using the Internet at school. |
May 1996
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| Sideline |
Sheona Farquhar makes the mistake of thinking that any conference held outside Aberdeen has to be warmer. |
May 1996
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| Burnside Writes |
John Burnside has a quick look at poetry on the Net. |
May 1996
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| Downtime |
Ariadne offers its readers a cartoon, poem, and caption competition. |
May 1996
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 2 |
John Kirriemuir introduces Ariadne issue 2. |
March 1996
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| 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. |
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. |
March 1996
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| 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. |
March 1996
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| E-print Archives: Key to Paperless Journals |
John MacColl on why electronic print archives are the key to paperless journals. |
March 1996
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| 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. |
March 1996
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| 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. |
March 1996
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| 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. |
March 1996
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| Netskills: A Major Training Programme |
The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater. |
March 1996
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| Interface |
Interview with Jill Foster, director of Mailbase and Netskills. |
March 1996
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| Down Your Way |
Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library. |
March 1996
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| 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. |
March 1996
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| 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. |
March 1996
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| Minotaur |
In our regular sceptic's column, information nirvana in the form of the Net has not yet reached Ruth Jenkins. |
March 1996
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| Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley |
Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email. |
March 1996
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