John Kirriemuir with the editorial for the Web version of issue 10 of Ariadne.
Also in this issue, Cultural Change, rears its many-faced head, both in the frank and revealing report [9] on how eLib hasn't quite (so far) been the catalyst for cultural change that many people were hoping for, and in the wry Cybercollege article [10], where you can test whether your insitution has embraced Cultural Change and IT to full effect. On the eLib front, it isn't all doom and gloom - Netskills reports some impressive results to date, for example [11], while ACORN reveal how their deliverable will work [12].
The section on resources for librarians (though also embracing all academics) consists of articles from major single-site Web-based resources. So we have NISS [13] and BUBL [14], who form with the ANR services such as SOSIG, OMNI, ADAM and EEVL, a sort of "love triangle" of gateways through which academic librarians can discover quality on-line resources. Speaking of SOSIG, Tracey Hooper reveals the new interface [15] to the premier on-line gateway to Social Science resources, while back in the resources section, the Berkeley Digital Library [16] is an interesting support resource that people involved in building "bits" of the Digital Library should check out.
Other topics of interest to those building the Digital Library include the trials of an Electronic Document Delivery system in an academic library [17], while another article of direct interest to academic librarians and digital library researchers speaks of the implementation of electronic journal systems in libraries [18].
Amidst the many other articles in this issue, the caption competition returns! We were fortunate for someone with a camera to be in the same lobster restaurant as the JISC Head of programmes, Norman Wiseman [19] - have a go, and see if you can win a prize!
Issue 11 and onwards of Ariadne on the Web, as well as lot of other things such as the eLib Web pages until someone replaces moi, is handed over to Isobel, UKOLN's Web Officer (good luck, and beware of thinly disguised adverts for CD-ROMs, masquerading as articles)(you know who you are out there - give it a rest). Suggestions for (proper) articles, comments, thoughts, electronic cash should be sent to: ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk from now on. Similarly, emails about things elib should not go to my email address, but should go to: elib@ukoln.ac.uk (we're too sensible here to go in for all this silly "capital letters in the middle of words" business).
To use the old cliche, there are simply "too many people to thank". So cheers to you all; a very special "ta very much" for various things goes to Emma and Catherine from the ILRT, Sarah (Netlinks), Sue (OMNI), the entire Netskills team (well-excellent people), Beckie and Tony (ADAM), Clare "will the last person to leave the IIELR in Milton Keynes please turn off all the lights? Oh shit, it's me..." Davies, Jon and Martin (ANR would be up the creek without an IAFA template without you), Nicola (fluffy JILT workaholic), Emma (FIDDO) and Fiona from our own library here at Bath.
JISC and the BL have been equally groovy, supportive and useful to Ariadne over the 2 or so years; notable people who well deserve thanks are Dave Cook, Lynne Brindley, Norman Wiseman, Alice Colban, Chris Rusbridge, Kelly Russell and Graham Jefcoate. Finally, but certainly not least, we have the "gang of more or less six or so" who work on Ariadne (all of us part-time), so cheers to Lorcan, John, Isobel, Terry, and (most especially) Alison Kilgour (*huge* thanks and a slice of Dundee cake there - you've done a magnificent job).
Finally, as an afterthought, I'd like to thank the stranger at last years boomerang championships who showed me how to improvise a working boomerang out of a print copy of Ariadne. If you ever read this, it still works, and I did eventually get one made out of an eLib poster to fly - the aptly named "Cultural Change" took off in the end...
[1] UKOLN Staff Index,
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/groups/ukoln/staff/
[2] ILRT Staff Index,
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/about/staff/index.html
[3] Interview with Clifford Lynch,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/clifford/
[4] Dublin Core Management,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/dublin/
[5] Search Engine Corner - Keyword Spamming: cheat your way to the top,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/search-engines/
[6] Minotaur: Gordon Dunsire - Metadata: to be, or not to be (catalogued),
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/metadata/
[7] Metadata Corner - Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/metadata/
[8] Dublin Core Management,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/dublin/
[9] eLib: Changing the Lightbulb - er, the Culture,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/cultural/
[10] Cybercollege Scorecard - How does your University score?,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/cybercollege/
[11] Netskills -
Network Skills for the UK Higher Education Community,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/netskills/
[12] The technical implementation of project ACORN,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/acorn/
[13] NISS: What it is and what we do,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/niss/
[14] BUBL: What it is and what we do,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/bubl/
[15] Planet SOSIG - the new SOSIG interface,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/planet-sosig/
[16] A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/sunsite/
[17] Electronic Document Delivery: A trial in an academic library,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/edd/
[18] Electronic Journals - problem or panacea?,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/journals/
[19] Caption Competition - starring the JISC head of programmes,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/caption/
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