Table of contents: issue18

Debbie Lock introduces a new service, Distance Learners Information Service (DiLIS), from the University of Surrey Library and Information Services.

Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

Chris Batt Director of Library Services, Croydon, discusses Information Technology.

Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth.

Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine.

Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals

John MacColl talks to Chris Rusbridge about the eLib programme.

Linda Kerr and Roddy MacLeod attended the recent CEI meeting at the Policy Studies Institute, London.

Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources.

Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

In this edition, Stuart Macwilliam, the section editor for Sociology, gives an overview of the resources likely to be found in his section. This is preceded by news of some 'mutual mirroring' across the Atlantic, involving SOSIG and the Internet Scout Project.

Walter Scales responds to Dave Beckett's article on search engines in issue 16.

Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.

Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata.