Ariadne Issue 20, ISSN 1361-3200, June 1999

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Editorial by Philip Hunter

Main Articles


Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC system.
CLUMPS in the Real World: Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects.
ECMS: Pedro Isaias on Electronic Copyright Management Systems
Mailbase: Elaine Blair on Mailbase services ten years on.
Tolimac: 'Smart card people are happy people': Sally Rumsey on a pilot electronic document delivery service at the University of Surrey Library.

Regular Columns

The DISinHE Centre: Professor Alan Newell asks "How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities?"
The Web Editor: Rebecca Linford, From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy.
Search Engines: 'Finding me, finding you'.Phil Bradley This months column looks at the search engines which can be used to trace people
Planet SOSIG: Karen Ford on The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services.
OMNI: John Kirriemuir writes about an informal survey of Internet Access in the NHS.
EEVL Eye on Engineering : The EEVL Team explore patent information web sites, the latest EEVL news, etc.
Biz/Ed Bulletin: 'What Do You Want to Know? Chris Mitchell introduces the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business
Metadata: Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.
Public Libraries: 'Virtual Library - False Dawn?' - an exchange between Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey.
JISC Content: Alicia Wise on NESLI.
JISC ASSIST: Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit.

Get Tooled-up

Windows NT Explorer: Brett Burridge on Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server.
The Unix Column: 'Sandboxes using chroot', by Ian Peacock: the proliferation of network software brings increasing concerns about security, which can be countered by 'restricted perspectives'.
Web Focus: Brian Kelly on WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in the second half of May.
Web Mirror: Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service.
Web Watch: Brian Kelly on 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one.

At the Event


IMS Workshop: Tracy Gardner reports on a meeting held in March in the Francis Hotel, Bath
Bibliotecas Universitárias em Consórcio: Agnès Guyon reports on a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, 26th and 27th April 1999, (on behalf of EEVL)
CTI-AFM: Christine Dugdale reports on the 10th CTI-AFM Annual Conference, Brighton. [report added 1st July 1999]

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