Table of contents: issue10
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Clifford Lynch in Interview |
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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 |
Web Editorial: Goodbyeee |
The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues. |
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Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10 |
John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version. |
ACORN Implemented |
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
Education-Line |
Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
ERCOMS |
The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
Netskills |
Jill Foster brings us an update of one of the flagship eLib projects, which aims to train many thousands of HE staff on various aspects of networks and the Internet. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. |
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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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The Library Association Web Site |
Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site. |
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r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe |
Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. |
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Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK |
Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK). |
Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface |
Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
OMNI-Corner: LA 97: 'I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Toto!' |
Sue Welsh, the globe-trotting OMNI project manager, presents a report of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association of the U.S.A, held in Seattle from 24 – 28 May, 1997. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine |
The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: Stories from the Web |
Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top |
Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Interface: Dennis Nicholson |
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research |
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. |
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 |
Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued) |
Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense. |
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 |
Down Your Way: Thames Valley University |
Sarah Ashton stumbles across a new learning centre in the Thames Valley University. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Around the Table: Film and Cinema |
Frank Parry discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
The Horse That Isn't There: 1997 US Digital Libraries Initiative Meeting |
Chris Rusbridge reports from the June 1997 US Digital Libraries initiative (DLi) meeting in Pittsburgh. |
July 1997, issue10, event report |
Netskills Corner: The 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS) |
Walter Scales summarises the 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS), held on the 23rd and 24th June 1997 in Sheffield. |
July 1997, issue10, event report |
Cartoon |
New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell. |
July 1997, issue10, odds and ends |
