Ariadne Issue 26, ISSN 1361-3200, December 2000

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Editorials

New Landscapes: Philip Hunter on the new Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, the eLib Programme, and the DNER.

Main Articles


After eLib: Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.
Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU project's Most Valuable Lessons. Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project.
Building on BUILDER: Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project.
AGORA: the Hybrid Library from a users perspective: Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies.
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library: Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.
Clumps come up Trumps: Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods.
e-Commerce in Higher Education: can we afford to do nothing?: Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector.
It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine) or How I learned to stop worrying and love the e-book: Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective.
Continuity and Collaboration: The Online Bach Bibliography: Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach.
Understanding the searching process for visually impaired users of the Web (NoVA): Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library).
Exam Papers Online: Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers.

Regular Columns

Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected: Debra Hiom and Emma Place.
EEVL: new profile, new office: and coming soon - a new service: Roddy Macleod manager of the EEVL project.
BIOME News: Paula Manning with a brief report on the official launch of BIOME at the Royal Society on the 2nd of November 2000.
Metadata: Preservation 2000: Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.
Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch: Sarah Ormes reports on the recent Public Libraries Web Managers Workshop held in the University of Bath.

Get Tooled-up

Web Focus: Brian Kelly looks at the 'Web Beyond the PC'.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly is 'WebWatching the eLib Project Sites'.
NT Explorer: Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.

At the Event


'The Future is Hybrid': Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London.

Odds and Ends


Cartoon: The regular cartoon
The Caption Competition
Book Review [01 February 2001]: Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier review Stuart Lee's 'Digital Imaging' handbook.
Ariadne 26 Questionnaire: [12 January 2001]
Checkout Archive: An archive of reviews of Web sites and books of interest.
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