Contents Page for Issue 2

The editor's comments for this Web edition of Ariadne. All other issues are also still available and linked from the back issues section.

The main articles, reviews and features from this edition of Ariadne.

• Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) update - a new flock of eLib projects are launched.
• Derek Law, the Director of Information Services and Systems at Kings College and chair of JISC's ISSC, details his vision of the cooperation between the library sectors blossoming through the use of Metropolitan Area Networks.
• Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista.
• John MacColl on why electronic print archives are the key to paperless journals.
• BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark.

In this and every issue, we illuminate a selection of the Electronic Libraries Programme projects.

• SEREN - Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network.
• SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway.
• Netskills - A major eLib project from the Training and Awareness section of the Programme.

Regular columns, covering interviews with people in the LIS field and celebrities, as well as networking skeptics and reviews of networking in academic sites.

• Interface - Jill Foster, director of Mailbase and Netskills, is interviewed.
• Down your way - Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library.
• Down your very long way away - we take a look at the library and networking facilities in more remote places around the world; in this issue, we feature the Faroe Islands.
• View from the hill - Matthew Evans, Chairman of Faber and Faber and of the recently formed Library and Information Commission, in discussion with Lorcan Dempsey.
• Minotaur - In our regular sceptic's column, information nirvana in the form of the Net has not yet reached Ruth Jenkins.
• Wire - Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.
• Sideline - Chris Bailey goes to Heathrow, not to watch the planes but to attend a networking conference.
• Copyright Corner - Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems.
• Burnside Writes - John Burnside confesses that the electronic page does not provide the experience he wants as a writer or for his readers.

Reports from conferences and events.

• Netskills - a report on the Netskills eLib project launch.
• At the Ramada - Chris Bailey at the "Networked Information in an International Context" conference.

Learn more about the Web and the Net.

• Netskills corner - Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting.
• From the Trenches - Network services on a shoestring? Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.
• Check out - reviews of literature and web sites.

Some bits and pieces to keep you informed, and help you relax.

• News - news about the eLib programme and Library and Information Science things in general.
• Correspondence - the letters page; contribute!
• Coming soon... - we take a quick peek at a few of the items coming in the Web edition of Ariadne Issue 3 (launched on May 20th 1996)
• Downtime - Caption competition, poem and cartoon..
• It's not just us... - David Nichols from Lancaster University takes a look at other projects called "Ariadne".
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