Beyond the Web Site: Philip Hunter on this issue's contents and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

A policy context - eLib and the emergence of the subject gateways: Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library: Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools.
Electronic Homer: Martin Mueller Reading Homer electronically with the TLG, Perseus, and the Chicago Homer .
The Klearinghouse: an inventory of knowledge technologies: George Brett on part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR.
Virtual Universities: Jonathan Foster on the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals.
Application Profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas: Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementators and standards makers.
Technostress: Stephen Harper with detail on a familiar disease.
ZOPE - Swiss Army Knife for the Web?: Paul Browning on this multiple authoring environment.

Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet: Phil Bradley with his latest look at the search engine marketplace.
Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences: Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite.
EEVL: EEVL backs a winner: Roddy Macleod and the team celebrate their 5th birthday with a day at the races, and supply some EEVL News Nuggets.
BIOME News: Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway.
Metadata: Towards the intelligent museum: Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.
Public Libraries: I Just got back from the Windy City... Sarah Ormes reports on the recent American Library Association conference held in Chicago.

Web Focus: Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management: The Joined-Up Web" Workshop, held in Bath.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites.

XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors!: Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris.
DECOMATE II: Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

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Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press.

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