The editor explains changes in Ariadne format. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/editorial">editorial</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/186/author-info">john kirriemuir</a> The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/editorial">editorial</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/186/author-info">john kirriemuir</a> John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/201/author-info">john maccoll</a> In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/272/author-info">andrew cox</a> Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/278/author-info">dan fleming</a> Mark Kerr, research assistant on the NewsAgent for Libraries Project, describes a project to build a news and current awareness service for the LIS community. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/279/author-info">mark kerr</a> Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/280/author-info">ruth glynn</a> Kelly Russell, the assistant co-ordinator of the eLib programme, with a few words on how the project (and the programme as a whole) can be reflected in terms of success and/or failure. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/282/author-info">kelly russell</a> Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/291/author-info">melanie lawes</a> John Kirriemuir and Isobel Stark with some notes and pictures from the main annual UK library exhibition: Libtech 96. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/212/author-info">isobel stark</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/186/author-info">john kirriemuir</a> Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/292/author-info">paul miller</a> William Y. Arms, D-Lib publisher and Amy Friedlander, the editor, describe this successful Web-based magazine that carries more technically-minded articles on all aspects of digital/electronic libraries research. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/271/author-info">amy friedlander</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/294/author-info">william y. arms</a> Sue Welsh, the OMNI maintainer, examines the perils of using the Internet as a substitute for your local family practitioner. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/300/author-info">sue welsh</a> Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/301/author-info">graham jefcoate</a> Derek Law threw down the gauntlet to public libraries in a recent issue of Ariadne. Appropriately, an EARL picked it up. Alison Kilgour reports. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/197/author-info">alison kilgour</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/210/author-info">derek law</a> Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/247/author-info">sheona farquhar</a> Clare Davies announces the fourth in this series of annual Electronic Library research conferences. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/news-and-events">news and events</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/304/author-info">clare davies</a>