Exploring the Information Environment: Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33.

Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings: Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience.
5 step guide to becoming a content provider in the JISC Information Environment: Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE.
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain with SHERPA: John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.
Student searching behaviour in the JISC Information Environment: Jill R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy report on work in progress and air some initial findings on the EDNER project, which undertakes evaluation of the developing JISC Information Environment.
A speaking Electronic Librarian: Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services.

Public Libraries: "United we stand":Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world.
Planet SOSIG: Lesly Huxley, Emma Place, David Boyd, and Phil Cross report on a spring-cleaning exercise for SOSIG using a systematic approach to collection management.
EEVL: Resident EEVL: Roddy MacLeod 's regular update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages.

Web Focus: "Let's Get Serious About HTML Standards": Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously.
Windows Explorer: Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.
Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis Of UK University Entry Points: Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

Portals, Portals everywhere: Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms.
Digital Libraries in China: Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002.
OCLC-SCURL: 'Collaboration, Integration and "Recombinant Potential"': Pete Johnston reports on the "New Directions in Metadata" conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh

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