Overview of content related to 'bibliographic data'

Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'.

Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.

Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages.

In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.

Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.

Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not) to her current role, developing a network-based subject gateway.

In these days of European integration, Freda Carroll, Eurotext project co- ordinator, describes a project that will make European Union documents accessible online.

Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia.

Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources.

John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work.

A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation: Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study.

Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM.

Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records.

Chris Bailey discusses librarians and learning with Jane Core of EduLib.

Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities.

Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records.