http://www.ariadne.ac.uk UKOLN publishes a magazine in electronic format for use over the World Wide Web. The Web magazine, Ariadne, is aimed principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community. Its main geographic focus is the UK, but it is widely read in the US and worldwide. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/ Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/awre/ Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/notay/ Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/thomas-rothery/ Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/vanderkuil/ Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/greig-nixon/ Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/hoorn/ Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/planet-sosig/ Flora Watson introduces a new podcasting service from Biz/ed and Angela Joyce reports on the latest developments in the Eurostudies section of SOSIG. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/biome/ Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network . http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/search-engines/ Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/boock/ Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/web-focus/ Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/dsr-rpt/ John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/dc-2005-rpt/ Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/dcc-1st-rpt/ Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/buildinginfogrid-rpt/ Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/higgins-rvw/ Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/royan-rvw/ Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the acquisitions field. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/day-rvw/ Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.