Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/editorial">editorial</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/749/author-info">richard jones</a> Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/791/author-info">annemiek van der kuil</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/792/author-info">martin feijen</a> Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/793/author-info">jean godby</a> Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/557/author-info">debbie campbell</a> Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/629/author-info">angela joyce</a> Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/726/author-info">donald mackay</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/728/author-info">jenny hall</a> Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/729/author-info">jessie hey</a> Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/news-and-events">news and events</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/797/author-info">david parkes</a>