In Issue 68 you will find the following feature articles:

The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle - Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems.

Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations? - Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education.

Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa - Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders.

Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System - Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems.

Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design - Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.

Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia - Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia.

Welsh Libraries and Social Media: A Survey - Alyson Tyler outlines the results of a survey of Welsh libraries, their access to, and use of, social media, and offers a sample business case.

Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres - Sarah Callaghan,   Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres.

Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit - Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories.