Editorial: Philip Hunter looks at Ariadne's web accesses for the past year, and previews the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER).

RDN: Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network).
Clumps as Catalogues: Peter Stubley asks: 'virtual success or failure?'
Clumping towards a UK National Catalogue?: Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing.
Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.
Digitizing Intellectual Property: the Oxford Scoping Study: Stuart Lee on the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University.
Delivering the Electronic Library: John MacColl on the new ARIADNE Reader.
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach: Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission
Tiny TV: streaming video on the web: Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows.
The ResIDe Electronic Library: an evolving library service: Christine Dugdale looks at the progress of this project to a functional service.
Public Libraries and Community Networks: Malabika Das argues they have a future together.
Aerade: John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce this EEVL-related service.
A free ISP from the British Library: Brian Kefford outlines the services available.

The DISinHE Centre: E. A. Draffon looks at the National Internet Accessibility Database (NIAD)
Search Engines: Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and Personalised Search Engines.
Planet SOSIG: Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.
EEVL: Roddy MacLeod: Round the World: Southern African engineering resources .
BIOME: Lisa Gray reports on recent developments with the BIOME hub.
Metadata: Michael Day on 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

Web Cache: George Neisser on the plans of the National Caching Service.
Web Focus: Brian Kelly on how to promote your web site
Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service: by Mark Russell.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways

MODELS 9 & 10: Tracy Gardner reports on the latest MODELS workshops.
Running a Public Libraries Web Site: Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes review the workshop held at the University of Bath in November.

Cartoon: The regular cartoon.
The Caption Competition returns!
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites and books of interest.
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