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Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project.

Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.

Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector.

Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach.

Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers.

John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project.

Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations.

Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem.

Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project.

Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.

Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history.

Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team.

Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments.

Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information.

Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications.

Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.

John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.

Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today.