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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 |
|---|---|---|
Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users |
Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
An Investigation Into World Wide Web Search Engine Use from within the UK: Preliminary Findings |
Simon Stobart and Susan Kerridge give some of the preliminary results of a JISC- funded investigation into the use of Search Engines such as Alta Vista and Lycos within the UK. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
JISC Projects Ahead |
John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
Croatian Libraries: The War Is Behind Us, What Brings the Future? |
Croatian Libraries: "The war is behind us, what brings the future?": Jadranka Stojanovski, the head of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library, describes the post-war progress made in implementing IT and networks in Croatian Libraries. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
Net Gains for Digital Researchers |
Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
Are They Being Served? |
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
Charging Ahead? |
Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
Serving the Arts and Humanities |
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
Globally Yours |
Hazel Gott gives a brief overview of the Follett Lecture Series, where overseas experts in the fields of Library and Information Science speak in various UK locations. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib |
We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Electronic Journals, Evolutionary Niches |
Brian Whalley describes what academics want from their journals and shows how these criteria can be met by an on-line journal. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
AC/DC |
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Meta Detectors |
Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Mailbase Reviewed |
Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Link: A New Beginning for BUBL |
Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Short Loan Projects |
John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
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, issue2, feature article |
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, issue2, feature article |
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, issue2, feature article |
E-print Archives: Key to Paperless Journals |
John MacColl on why electronic print archives are the key to paperless journals. |
March 1996, issue2, feature article |
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, issue2, feature article |
eLib Starts to Deliver |
Ariadne explains how the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a key IT programme for academic libraries, is shaping up. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
The 4th WWW Conference in Boston |
Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm |
Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
What's Good and Bad about BUBL |
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL). |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
