This section contains the main articles and features in this issue of Ariadne.

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.

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