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Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) support United Kingdom post-16 and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: JISC)
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OMNI Seminar |
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. |
January 1997, issue7, event report |
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 |
MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services |
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
Controlling Access in the Electronic Library |
Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. |
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Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme |
After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web |
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Down Your Way: Durham |
Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8 |
John MacColl with the editorial for the Print version of Ariadne issue 8. |
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CEI Looks for Bold Response |
John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work. |
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 |
MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services |
Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services |
Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Introducing Web Focus |
UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium. |
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Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library |
Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
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 |
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 |
EEVL |
Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
CAIN |
Martin Melaugh reports on a site devoted to the Northern Ireland conflict. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference |
Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997. |
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Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures |
Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Web Editorial: Goodbyeee |
The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues. |
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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 |
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 |
NISS: National Information Services and Systems |
Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians |
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BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians |
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. |
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Interface: Dennis Nicholson |
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski |
John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web |
Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 11 |
John MacColl presents the editorial from issue 11 of the print version. |
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Theses Unbound |
Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries. |
September 1997, issue11, feature article |
Down Your Way: Queen's University Library |
Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Conference Goes One Step Beyond |
John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Libtech '97 |
Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
SKIP: Skills for new Information Professionals |
Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS. |
September 1997, issue11, project update |
JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution |
Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
Are Print Journals Dinosaurs? |
Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
The History of History |
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. |
November 1997, issue12, project update |
The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form |
Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site. |
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Interface: Hymns Ancient and Modern |
Lyndon Pugh talks to Mary Auckland, Chair, Committee on Electronic Information (CEI) Content Working Group. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |