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It is common for libraries to develop Web sites for the provision of access to resources stored on remote systems: the priority of the University of Oslo's Informatics Library, in contrast, is to use Web functionality to place as many as possible of its own services on the desktop of its users. Through a combination of email and Web interfaces with the Library's bibliographic catalogue, classification scheme and housekeeping system, users can search databases, browse indexes, view loan information, display full texts and order documents directly from their Web browser. Other facilities include a clickable floor‐plan, and direct Web access to faculty, university and national OPACs.

This article is a preliminary attempt to discuss and construct an experimental library user interface, connecting different libraries in such a way that each library can search other library catalogues using its own classification codes. The second focus of the article is to develop a viable method to locate specific subject clusters in a library catalogue. The classification codes need not be uniform, and the user interface allows for natural language searching. The technique used is the construction of a concordance table between different library catalogues' subject codes on the bibliographic level, enabling the system to determine relative links between different subject codes. The concordance is established on the basis of shared titles.

The 26th annual seminar of the European Library Automation Group (ELAG) was held in Rome in April 2002. This report provides an overview of the papers presented, including those describing relevant developments in Italy (such as the Italian Digital Library), those covering the theme of the seminar (semantic Web and libraries), as well as papers on functional requirements for bibliographic records and others. Workshops are a key feature of the ELAG seminars and a brief mention is made of these.

In VINE 113 and 114 our authors look at library services on the Web, with half a dozen case studies of excellent applications.

The development of the World‐Wide Web has caught the imagination not only of professional computer users, but also of large sections of the general public: news and feature items concerning aspects of the Internet abound in the popular media, and these commonly specify the Web as the technology of choice for accessing a wide variety of information resources.