Centering the Periphery: a new equity in information access? Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 30.

Digitization: do we have a strategy? David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: towards equitable distribution of global knowledge: Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol.
Reference books on the Web: Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools.
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network: Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.
Building ResourceFinder: Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol.
The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Jenny Rowley introduces this JISC initiative.
Managed Learning? Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.
My Humbul - Humbul Gets Personal: Randy Metcalfe describes new functionality available for users of the Humbul Humanities Hub.
Content Management Systems: Who needs them?: Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.
The Concept of the Portal: Paul Miller gives his personal view of its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board.
Do they need to know?: Andrew Cox and James Currall on the issue of Web security.

News from the Resource Discovery Network: Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen with the latest on developments at the RDN.
Planet SOSIG: Phil Cross reports on a recent workshop for subject gateways in Europe and Dave Boyd look forward to developments within the Geography section of SOSIG.
EEVL: Roddy Macleod introduces a 'Brand New Service'.
Search Engines: 'Goodbye Alta Vista, hallo AllTheWeb': Phil Bradley's regular column.
Public Libraries: Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

Web Focus: Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities.

The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001.
Image Handling: Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.
Digital Curation: Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London.

Cartoon: The regular Malcolm Campbell cartoon.
The famous Ariadne Caption Competition.
Newsline: News you can use.
Book Review: The Invisible Web: Marieke Napier
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