The Spring issue of Ariadne was published on 30 April and includes articles by Pete Johnston who introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project, Marieke Guy who examines what the Internet has to offer the art of reading, two articles on digital preservation and supporting best practice as well as a description of how the British Library”s training package for public library colleagues came to be designed. Our colleague here at University of Bath, Niki Panteli, identifies ways of developing trust within global virtual teams and Daniel Chudnov and his fellow authors” article on a “gather locally, share globally” approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments has much to offer.