Nicky Ferguson is currently Research Director at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol in the UK. He has been working on Internet information issues for eight years. He directs two major services for social scientists and has co-ordinated several Electronic Library projects and led DESIRE2 - a multi-partner international collaborative research project in the EC's Fourth Framework Telematics for Research programme - which finished in July 2000. He also undertakes a number of research projects and consultancies. He has wide experience of training and has run hands-on workshops and practical sessions at many national and international conferences. He has also written extensively for journals in the social sciences and other disciplines on the Internet and the use and utility of networked information. Before joining the University of Bristol he worked for the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on a two year consultancy, gathering information on, and raising awareness of, networked information amongst the UK social science community.