Overview of content related to 'research'

Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast.

The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right.

Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball.

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

John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library.

David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire.

The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues.

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.

Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

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.

Sue Welsh, the globe-trotting OMNI project manager, presents a report of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association of the U.S.A, held in Seattle from 24 – 28 May, 1997.

Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project.

Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997.

Walter Scales summarises the 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS), held on the 23rd and 24th June 1997 in Sheffield.

Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.