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> Croatian Libraries: "The war is behind us, what brings the future?": Jadranka Stojanovski, the head of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library, describes the post-war progress made in implementing IT and networks in Croatian Libraries. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/270/author-info">jadranka stojanovski</a> Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/271/author-info">amy friedlander</a> Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/275/author-info">peter burden</a> John MacCulloch and Jane Batchelor, from UKERNA, detail their training course, designed for those installing, running, supporting, or managing a JANET connection. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/277/author-info">jane batchelor</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/276/author-info">john macculloch</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> Steve Hitchcock describes the Open Journals project. This involves the use of an innovative approach to handling the hyperlinks between Web-based resources, which could have significant implications for on-line journals and publishing. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/281/author-info">steve hitchcock</a> Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/288/author-info">klaas wierenga</a> Jaqueline Pieters describes the evolution of the SURF Foundation, a major IT co-ordination service for the Dutch academic sector. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/289/author-info">jaqueline pieters</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> Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/204/author-info">jon knight</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> Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/295/author-info">julia a. rudy</a> Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some of the Web sites and Bulletin Boards that contain information on copyright issues. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/220/author-info">charles oppenheim</a> Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/299/author-info">jasper tredgold</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> 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>