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The Ariadne editorials.
Editorials from both the Web and the print versions of Ariadne.

The main articles in the print and Web versions of Ariadne.
Are they being served?: Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs.
Charging ahead?: Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries.
Serving the Arts and Humanities: Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description [5,200 words] of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service; its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..
Globally yours: Hazel Gott gives a brief overview of the Follett Lecture Series, where overseas experts in the fields of Library and Information Science speak in various UK locations.

In the eLib section, we present descriptions of eLib projects and news of a major conference where many eLib projects will be doing presentations.
MIDRIB: Julian Cook describes a project that deals with the storage and access of medical images.
TAPin: Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area.
ResIDe: Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England.
ILEJ: Hugh Wellesley-Smith turns back the clock with a description of the Internet Library for early journals digitisation project.
JILT: Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law.
IMPEL2: What is eLib doing to us all? Catherine Edwards describes this project, from the Supporting Studies area of the programme.

Libtech '96 - John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at this event.

Best eLib project Web pages - the winner is announced...

eLib isn't the only active area of electronic/digital library research and development. In this new section, we will be taking a closer look at other initiatives, programmes, projects and general work in this area, both in the UK and overseas.
CEDAR: The Huddersfield Connection: Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems.
TLTP: Joanna Tiley describes TLTP. The Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK, is a collection of 70+ projects aimed to "make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology".
ACTS: The European Connection: David Kay describes ACTS, the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services, a programme under the European Community 4th Framework Research & Technology Development Programme, consisting of around 120 projects.
NHS Libraries: at home on the Web: Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site.

In this section we present reports from conferences, events and workshops of interest to the digital/electronic libraries and networking communities.
Netlinks Symposium: Sarah Ashton reports from the Netlinks Symposium, organised by the Netlinks eLib project and the Department of Information Studies in the University of Sheffield, in early June.
JUGL: Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

Contains a small number of articles of a slightly more technical nature (though still readable and often of relevance/interest to the less technically skewed amongst us).
Cashing in on Caching: Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it.
Redesigning your Web pages?: In this issue's Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly gives some sensible advice on designing (or, as is more likely, redesigning) Web pages.
Netskills Kit 1: Walter Scales describes the rationale behind, and development of, the first Netskills Training Kit.

Our regular columns and columnists, such as "Down your Way", the copyright corner and interviews with several people with an interest in matters library and networking.
Moral rights: Charles Oppenheim describes the issues and pitfalls in this often overlooked area of copyright legislation - if you are involved in any digital libraries project that deals with other peoples' material held in an electronic form, read this article.
Public Libraries Corner: Sarah Ormes gives a detailed account of the recent Public Libraries in the Information Society Workshop.
Wire: Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.
Down your way: Alison Kilgour checks out the Internet Resource Centre in Heriot-Watt University.
Down your very long way away: J. Correia describes the use of the Internet in Macau.
Interface: John MacColl talks to Peter Nathan, acting president and distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Iowa.
View from the hill: John MacColl meets Ian Kingston, a freelance copy-editor, proof-reader and typesetter.
Minotaur: Dinty Moore, author of The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, worries about who will be the gatekeepers of online information in the future.
Burnside writes: John Burnside takes his first tentative step in Web page creation.
Around the Table: Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars.

The usual collection of the exotic, eclectic and weird, such as poetry, a cartoon and the infamous caption competition.
Poetry Spot: Ralph Hancock with some timely verse of an Olympian nature.
Cartoon: The regular cartoon (this one with a bit more colour than usual...).
Caption Competition: The now infamous caption competition - see if you find last issue's winners funny, and send in your suggestions for this month's caption.
Sideline: Jim Huntingford travels to Cambridge and has trouble with skinhead bus drivers (happens to us all...).
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites and books of interest. Two new Web sites reviewed for this issue are the Fortean Times Web pages and the Cyberhound Web index.
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