Table of contents: issue10

A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

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

Few topics in librarianship seem as "hot" these days as digital libraries, and yet for all the heat being generated there is little light. What are digital libraries? How are they built? How are they maintained and preserved? How will they be funded? These questions and more abound, while answers are few and far between. We don't have all the answers, but we're a great place to start looking for them. We are the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [1], and this article is about who we are and how we may be able to help you.

NISS: National Information Services and Systems

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Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians

NISS. What does it mean ? What does it do ? Why ? Answers to these questions will strike different chords for everyone reading this article, depending upon your experience of networked information resources and the type or area of work with which you're involved. Can NISS help with your work ?

BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians

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

The Library Association Web Site

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Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site.

r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe

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Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences.

Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK

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Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK).