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Ariadne Issue 9 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kirriemuir)
Wed May 21 21:50:59 1997
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:18:54 -0500
From: John Kirriemuir <lisjwk@ukoln.ac.uk>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Issue 9 of Ariadne, the Print and Web newsletter/magazine for librarians
and Information Scientists, is now live and available from:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue9/
The 38 articles/items in this issue include:
* Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians : Emma Worsfold
describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where
European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to
this Social Science Gateway.
* From Aberystwyth to ADAM - Using the skills acquired on a library school
course in the real world : Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and
knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not)
to her current role, developing a network-based subject Gateway.
* The Librarian of Babel - The key to the stacks : The Librarian, ably
assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the
unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal.
* Never mind the quality, check the badge-width! : Alison McNab, Betsy
Anagnostelis and Alison Cooke compare and contrast the methods used to
identify and indicate which Internet-based resources are of high
"quality".
* Metadata, PICS and Quality : Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of
a PICS application acting as a quality filter.
* Extending metadata for digital preservation : Michael Day suggests how
the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the
specific field of digital preservation.
* The NHS, the Internet and libraries: the NHS Anglia and Oxford Internet
Project : Judy Palmer and Myles Chippendale describe an initiative that is
using the Internet to connect widely dispersed health libraries.
* Descriptions and updates from 6 eLib projects: ACORN, CAIN, EEVL,
Eurotext, Netskills, SCOPE.
* An introduction and description of 5 more Digital Library initiatives
and projects in Australia, where much of the electronic library
development mirrors our own in the UK.
* Internationalisation and the Web : Jon Knight looks at how the Web is
currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process
required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web.
* Conference reports from Elvira 4 and the 8th ACM Hypertext conference,
as well as a preview of the 2nd international symposium on Networked
Learner Support.
* Search Engines Corner - Alta Vista LiveTopics : Tracey Stanley looks at
Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta
Vista Web Page index.
...and many more articles and regular columns.
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/
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