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.

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