Editorial - Ariadne's Thread: Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28.

Scalable Vector Graphics for the Web: David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics.
Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges: Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.
The eLib Hybrid Library Projects: Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife.
The Reading Experience Database Project: Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history.
The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution: Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector.
INHALE: Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team.
Supporting Material for Database Training: Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services.
Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students: Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments.
INSPIRAL: Sarah Currier introduces the JISC project INSPIRAL, which is investigating what's involved in joining digital libraries and VLEs to create a fully integrated online learning experience.
Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond: Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information.
OpenResolver: a Simple OpenURL Resolver: Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver.

Search Engines: Phil Bradley looks at Ask Jeeves.
Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics? Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre.
EEVL: Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service
EEVL: The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative: Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, supplies information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative set up by Math-Net.
EEVL: Email Newsletters Examples from Engineering: Jim Corlett explains how email newsletters can benefit you.
BIOME: Progressing through Partnerships: Paula Manning reports on recent collaborations.
Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research: Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.
Minotaur: Six Proposals for Freeing the Refereed Literature Online: A Comparison: Stevan Harnad argues for the self-archiving alternative.

Web Focus: Brian Kelly reports on the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, held in Hong Kong on 1-5 May 2001.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

Digital Museums: Braining Up or Dumbing Down?: Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium.
VTS Launch: John Kirriemuir reports on the Edinburgh stage of the launch of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite.
Seminar on Linking Technologies: Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

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