The editorials for issue 17 of Ariadne.
Web
editorial: The web editors, Philip Hunter and
Bernadette Daly.
Print
editorial: Lyndon Pugh with the editorial from
issue 17 of the print version.
The main articles from both the Web and print versions of
Ariadne.
Why
Give it Away?: David Haynes, Elizabeth
Lyon and David Streatfield explore the
mysteries of devolved budgeting in the Ariadne Cover Article. Building
on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations: Clive
Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to
explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation
A
New Publication for a New Challenge: John MacColl
and Lyndon Pugh discuss their proposal for a web and
print magazine for Information and IT professionals in UK Higher
Education.
Teleworking
from Home: Nicola Harrison, Project Assistant at
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), describes her experience of
teleworking.
Descriptions of the progress of several projects, as written by
the project teams.
DEDICATE:
Nancy Fjaellbrant and Philippa Levy A
European Telematics project for online professional development in
information literacy and user education, descended from eLib NetLinkS. VERITY:
Walter Scales writes about this European Telematics
project.
From each article, you can move back and forth between articles
written for the same column in other issues of Ariadne.
Down
Your Way: Kathryn Arnold on the electronic
university and the virtual campus.
Interface:
the IT man's Tale: Lyndon Pugh talks to Phil Brady
at the University of Wales.
Metadata:
BIBLINK.Checksum: Ian Peacock and Andy
Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum
for Web pages. Planet
SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography:
Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and
Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the
main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet
can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences.
Search
Engines: Tracey Stanley writes about "Ask
Jeeves", a search engine which processes natural language enquiries.
View
from the Hill: Mark Clark risks the longer view
Web
Focus corner: Institutional Web Management: Brian Kelly
reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in
Newcastle this month.
What
are Document Management Systems?: Brian Kelly
explains the concept.
Reports from conferences just passed, as well as previews of
forthcoming conferences, are presented.
ALA
'98: Ian Winship reports on electronic library
related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in
Washington D.C.
UKOLUG:
Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday
conference.
Information
Ecosystems: John MacColl follows up last issue's
breakdown of papers with his reflections on the UKOLN conference held in
Bath University at the end of June.
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.
Mail us!: Send us criticisms, comments, ideas for
reviews or features...
Articles
appearing in both the web and print versions. Articles
appearing only in the web version.