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Editorials

The Grid: the Web twenty years on? Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 32.

Main Articles


The evolution of an institutional e-prints archive at the University of Glasgow: William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience.
Learning Objects and the Information Environment: Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller discuss the place of Learning Objects in the wider environment of learning.
Another piece of cake...?: Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old.
NetLab's digital library gâteau: Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002.
Talking about a revolution? First impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib.
Collection Description in Focus: Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: a Strategy for the UK: by John MacColl.
QA Focus: Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.
Regular Columns

Public Libraries: Penny Garrod on the recently published Audit Commission Report: 'Building Better Library Services.'
Planet SOSIG: Debra Hiom with a report which covers the launch of 'Citizenship Past'; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project.
EEVL: Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels.
Search Engines: Phil Bradley The new kids on the block - copying or competing? This article looks at who is providing the competition for Google and Ixquick, and provides some food for thought for those who use these two search engines.

Get Tooled-up

Web Focus: Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde.
UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users: Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly revists 404 Error Pages in UK University Web Sites.

At the Event


Internet 2 Spring Member meeting: John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware.
Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records: Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002.
The Information Grid: Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002.
WWW2002: Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.
Open Archive Forum Workshop: Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002.CNR, Pisa..

Odds and Ends


The famous Ariadne Caption Competition [added after 15th July]
Oxford Reference Online (2): A user review by Pete Dowdell.
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