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Feature articles in Ariadne are written by subject-matter experts invited to address topics of interest to information professionals.
- Total number of 'feature article' items in all Ariadne issues: 545
| Title | Article summary | Date |
|---|---|---|
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. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea? |
Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research |
Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Revolutionaries and Captives in the Information Society |
Trevor Haywood on the shackles that bind us to the information revolution. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works? |
Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
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. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
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. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
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". |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
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. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
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. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
Formats for the Electronic Library |
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
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. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
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. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
CEI Looks for Bold Response |
John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
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. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
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. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Patient Education: A Role for Multimedia |
Paul Garrud discusses the potential for on-line patient education multimedia. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
INFOMINE |
Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Mind the Gap! |
Sheila and Robert Harden describe the making of their public library Web pages. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Creating Models for Electronic Citations |
Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger outline the case for better referencing of electronic sources. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University |
Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled |
George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
Information Strategies Get Down to Business |
John MacColl on the JISC approach to Information Strategies. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
Infopolecon |
John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
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. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
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. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |