Welcome to the eleventh issue of Ariadne, the Web Version. Please note that articles marked appear in both the web and print versions, while those marked appear only in the web version.

The editorials for issue 11 of Ariadne.
Web editorial: The Web editor, Isobel Stark
Print editorial: John MacColl with the editorial from issue 11 of the print version.

The main articles from both the Web and print versions of Ariadne.
Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries: Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change.
Theses Unbound: Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.
Electronic Document Delivery - a trial in an academic library: In part two of this report, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years.

Descriptions of the progress of several projects, as written by the project teams.
Edbank: Hilary Nunn describes this project to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training, based at the Open University Library.
SKIP: SKills for new Information Professionals: Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS.
Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT): Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography.

Issues of particular interest to librarians. This month cataloguing electronic resources.
York Information Connections: an attempt to catalogue the Internet: Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.
Cataloguing Electronic Sources: Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham.
Cataloguing E-Journals: Where are we now?: Valerie Wilkins reviews the results of a survey, showing a variety of current practices.

From each article, you can move back and forth between articles written for the same column in other issues of Ariadne.
Charles' Copyright Corner: Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.
Down Your Way: Queen's University Library: Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast.
Interface: All pre-prints servers are not the same: Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project.
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library: Books and Bytes: Jon Knight, a regular contributor, gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'.
The Librarian of Babel: for a Public Reading Right: The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right.
Metadata Corner: Naming names: metadata registries: Rachel Heery with this issues look at metadata issues.
Minotaur: John MacRitchie: Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball.
Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS: Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with these organisations and SOSIG.
Public Libraries Corner: A public library metadata initiative: Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.
Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web: Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth.
Web Focus corner: Running An Institutional Web Service: Brian Kelly reports on the workshop held at King's College London on 16/17th July.

Reports from conferences just passed, as well as previews of forthcoming conferences, are presented.
Conference Goes One Step Beyond: John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library.
Digital Libraries '97: David Nichols reports on this important international conference.
SIGIR '97: David Nichols again, on the follow on conference.
BULISC '97: John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2.
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.

The usual collection of the exotic and weird, such as a cartoon and the infamous caption competition.
Cartoon: The regular cartoon.
Caption Competition: The now infamous caption competition - entries by 1st November please.
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites and books of interest.
Mail us!: Send us criticisms, comments, ideas for reviews or features...

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