Contents Page for Issue 1

All other issues are also still available and linked from the back issues section.

The main articles, reviews and features from this edition of Ariadne.

• The Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) takes off - how the key IT programme for academic libraries is shaping up.
• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston - An informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development (on-going report).
• Bernard Naylor - At the eye of the Internet Storm.
• What's good and bad about BUBL - Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries.

In this and every issue, we throw the spotlight on a selection of the Electronic Library Programme projects.

• OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information.
• EduLib - The National Network of Electronic Library Accredited Trainers.
• CLIC - An Electronic Chemistry Journal.

Regular columns, covering interviews with people in the LIS field and celebrities, as well as networking skeptics and reviews of networking in academic sites.

• Interface - Paul Evan Peters, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information, interviewed.
• Down your way - how the Information services at Loughborough University are becoming increasingly dependent on the Internet.
• View from the hill - Scottish poet Douglas Dunn waxes lyrical on all things Internet.
• Sceptics column - Jim Smith finds that the Internet is no place to do research.
• Wire - Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.
• Sideline - John MacColl on the delights of sharing the blandest of Midland hotels with a group of eLib project managers for a couple of days.

Learn more about the Web and the Net.

• Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95.
• From the Trenches - HTML: Which Version? - Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with.
• Check out - brief reviews of Web sites.

Some bits and pieces to keep you informed, and help you relax.

• News - news about the eLib programme and Library and Information Science things in general.
• Correspondence - the letters page; read then write in!
• Downtime - a collection of items, such as a cartoon and poem, to help you unwind...
• John Burnside - John Burnside on the problems of adapting to change.
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