The editorials for issue 14 of Ariadne.
Web editorial: The Web editors, Philip
Hunter and Isobel Stark 
Print editorial: Lyndon
Pugh with the editorial from issue 14 of the print version.
The main articles from both the Web and print versions of
Ariadne.
Information
Services - A Mission and a Vision: Les Watson asks
how we use technology in general as part of the learning process, in this
extended version of the main article in the print version of Ariadne The
Peoples Library: Lyndon Pugh discusses the latest
noises from government over public library networking and life long
learning. Dublin
comes to Europe: Paul Miller discusses issues
raised at a recent European Commission meeting on metadata for resource
discovery An
End User's View: Oliver de Peyer with his personal
view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical
electronic issue desk. Internet
resources for older people: Monica Blake describes
some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The
British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research
Programme
Descriptions of the progress of several projects, as written by
the project teams.
Electronic
Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities: Dennis
Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the
Catriona II project.
Superjournal Update: Christine Baldwin describes
work so far on this project which set out to study factors which make
e-journals successful and useful to academia. EDDIS:
David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s
document delivery projects LAMDA:
So what is so exciting about LAMDA? Frederick Friend
explains about electronic document delivery in London and Manchester .
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: Cyberworld Croydon:
Lyndon Pugh took a trip to the cyberworld of Croydon, to
see 'what was going down'
A Knight's Tale: Networked CD-ROM redirectors: Jon Knight
describes how MSCDEX.EXE and networked CD-ROM redirectors can introduce
difficulties when using Windows 95 and NT to provide access to library
CD-ROMs.
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability:
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and
Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements
to the ROADS software
Minotaur: Robin Alston replies to issue 13's
Minotaur, by Louis Schmier. Netskills
Corner: Multimedia Web Design: Walter Scales asks
are we running down an up escalator?
Planet SOSIG: Regard: Social Science Research in the Spotlight:
Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database
now available on the World Wide Web
Public Libraries Corner: An Internet Open Day: Sally
Criddle describes a World Wide Web training event organised by
UKOLN (the UK Office for Library and Information Networking) and the
University of Bath for the 1997 National Libraries Week.
Search Engines Corner: Meta-search engines: Tracey Stanley
on the next level up from conventional search engines in the ‘information
food chain’, which provide a sophisticated approach to searching
across a number of databases
View from the Hill - Mel Collier: Lyndon
Pugh talks to Mel Collier, previously Director of the
International Institute for Electronic Library Research at De Montfort
University and now Director of Strategic and Operational Planning at
Dawson Holdings plc.
Web
Focus corner: Animate your Pages: recent developments are enabling
dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as
Javascript. Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic
HTML
What
is?...: Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource
Description Framework)
Reports from conferences just passed, as well as previews of
forthcoming conferences, are presented.
BOBCATSSS:
Christine Dugdale reports on the 6th BOBCATSSS
International Symposium, Budapest
Task
Force Meeting: Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI
Conference last October.
MODELS:
Rosemary Russell reports on MODELS workshop 6, held on
5-6 February.
A collection of the exotic and weird. The usual cartoon is here,
but the infamous caption competition is resting.
Cartoon: The regular cartoon.
Newsline: Updates on News and Events.
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites and books of
interest.
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