Articles in this issue were added on January 27th,
except for those indicated by an
icon; not surprisingly, these articles were added on February 13th.
OMNI Seminar:
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar.
Mind the Gap!:
Sheila and Robert Harden
describe the making of their public library Web pages.
Creating Models for Electronic Citations:
Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger outline the case for
better referencing of electronic sources.
Acrobat a High Flyer:
John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF.
Print Journals: Fit for the future?:
Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals
continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of
scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional
scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of
the debate.
SCRAN:
A taste of Scotland and food for thought:
Bruce Royan outlines an epic millennium project to digitise much of the culture and heritage of
Scotland
A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site:
Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the
largest Library Association in the World.
Networking Moving Images:
Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British
Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film
Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic
networks for multimedia applications.
Promoting the Internet to staff at a UK University:
Paul Hollands is the human part of a project to promote the use of Internet based information
services among teaching and research staff at the university; in his own words, this is how the project has
progressed to date.
IPL: The Internet Public Library:
Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and
improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library.
Public Libraries, Public Support? The Mission Behind Buildings, Books and
Bytes:
Laura Weiss outlines a major American survey that looked at the
disparity between key librarians views of the future, and what the public who used those libraries really
wanted.
In the eLib section, we present descriptions of several eLib projects.
Biz/ed:
Catherine Sladen describes an information gateway for Business Studies and Economics
Deliberations:
Graham Alsop explains how an interactive electronic magazine can improve teaching methods
ERIMS:
Catherine Hanratty issues a call to ERIMS
ESPERE:
Dee Wood reports on the Electronic Submission and Peer Review Project
In this section, we take a closer look at a pair of JISC-funded services.
MIDAS - Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services
:
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider
communities.
Data Archive at the University of Essex
:
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for
computer-readable data in the
social sciences and humanities.
This section 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).
Controlling Access in the Electronic Library:
Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of
electronic authentication
MCF: Will Dublin form the Apple
Core:
Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make
useful and interesting bed fellows.
Handling MARC with PERL:
Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary
distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read
and write MARC records.
Our regular columns and columnists from both the paper and Web
versions.
The British Libraries Private Finance Initiative:
The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne
an exclusive on its
Private Finance Initiative.
Public Libraries Corner: Life after the Millenium Bid.
After the recent disappointing turn-down of the millenium bid to connect public
libraries to the Internet,
Sarah Ormes wonders where we go from here.
Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme
-
After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the
eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a
risen.
Web Access for the Disabled:
In the first of a regular column on this subject, Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources.
Wire:
Nick Gibbins is put
under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web:
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a
few examples you may wish to play with.
OMNI corner:
In her regular appearance in Ariadne, Sue Welsh,
introduces a new
experiment in network indexing underway at OMNI.
Down your Way - Durham:.
Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project.
View from the Hill:
John MacColl quizzes John Kelleher of the Tavistock Institute about the E-word.
Minotaur: In Minotaur, the
collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue,
Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western
hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources.
Burnside Writes:
John Burnside on pornography and the Internet.
Around the Table - Health and Medicine:
What can medics get out of the Internet? Sue Welsh of the eLib OMNI project visits some of the medical sites.
Interface:
Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden.
The usual collection of the exotic and weird, such as poetry, a
cartoon and the infamous caption competition.
Cartoon: The regular
cartoon - this issue, a slant on Virtual Reality.
Caption Competition: The now
infamous caption competition - see if you find last issue's winners funny, and send in your
suggestions for the current competition.
Sideline:
Sarah Ashton takes the long route to Cranfield
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites
and books of interest.
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