Ariadne Issue 7 now up...

[John Kirriemuir]

Ariadne Issue 7  -  Web Version
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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ariadne/


Contains, amongst other items:

* Creating Models for Electronic Citations: Andrew Harnack and Eugene
Kleppinger outline the case for better referencing of electronic sources
* Print Journals: Fit for the future?: We asked Fytton
Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal.
* SCRAN: A taste of Scotland and food for thought: Bruce Royan outlines
an epic millenium project to digitise much of the culture and heritage of
Scotland 
* A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob
Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed
Web site of the largest Library Association in the World
* Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe
Acrobat and PDF
* Public Libraries, Public Support? The Mission Behind Buildings, Books
and Bytes: Laura Weiss outlines a major American survey that looked at the
disparity between key librarians views of the future, and what the public
who used those libraries really wanted 
* IPL: The Internet Public Library: Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based
public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features
of and within a real, large-scale library 
* eLib contributions from the Biz/ed, Deliberations, ERIMS and ESPERE
projects
* The background, workings and purpose behind two JISC-funded services:
      MIDAS - Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services
      Data Archive at the University of Exeter
* Articles on the Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata format, and on
the processing of MARC records
* Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and
takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with
* What can medics get out of the Internet? Sue Welsh of the eLib OMNI
project visits some of the medical sites

...plus several other articles and features, as well as the regular
columns, the cartoon and the much used and abused caption competition -
more fun than a Spice Girls CD.

Some of the articles in this issue have a feedback form for easy reponse, 
either to Ariadne, for public consumption, or privately, to the article 
author.



John Kirriemuir

* Web Editor (Ariadne), (an) Info. Officer (eLib), Info. Officer (UKOLN) *
Tel: 01225 826354 (live)    01225 465064 (messages)      Fax: 01225 826838
Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisjwk/     [28, 6'3", GSOH, sporty, solvent]
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