Ariel

RLG's Ariel rapidly became the medium of choice for the transmission of electronic copies between libraries. Nearly 8,000 individual and group purchasers have made Ariel part of their daily operations and it works seamlessly with RLG's ILL manager. MIMAS announces that it has become its distributor in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. Contact Michelle Bell (michelle.bell@man.ac.uk) for more information.

A collection of studies on the experience of using Ariel in the USA has been published by Haworth. All the studies first appeared in The Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Information Supply, Ives, G. (Ed.),Ariel, Internet transmission software for document supply, Haworth Information Press. ISBN 0 7890 1042 9.

Some useful reports appear on the ALA Web site at: www.ala.org/rusa/mouss/committees/ill/ill.html Below are some of the more relevant highlights.