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Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.
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Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.
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Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.
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Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading.
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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.
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Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers.
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Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.
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Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.
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Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.
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Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board.
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Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.
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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.