Editorial: 'Ariadne's Thread' by Philip Hunter

An Overview of Subject Gateway activities in Australia: Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.
Z39.50 for All: Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature.
Digitizing Wilfrid:: Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'
'The scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal': Michael Day
ECMS: Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant e-Commerce technology.

The DISinHE Centre: Paul Booth on Web Content accessibility
The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond' Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.
Search Engines: Phil Bradley 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light.
Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest - Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest.
EEVL: 'Not a Success.' Roddy Macleod embarks on a tendentious argument.
Biz/Ed Bulletin: Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites.
Public Libraries: .VITAL - the Value and Impact of End-User IT Services in public libraries - information about the project from the project officer Juliet Eve.

Windows NT Explorer: Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)
Unix: mod_perl: Ian Peacock explains a technology for supercharging the Apache Server.
Web Cache: Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services
Web Focus: Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."
Web Watch: Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

Developing the Bath Profile: Paul Miller with details of the "Bath Profile" - a Z39.50 specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery.
ALISS: Christine Dugdale reports on a conference held in the University of Wales, Bangor.

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