Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary | Date published |
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| Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development |
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries. |
November 2012
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| Book Review: The Embedded Librarian |
John Azzolini reviews a comprehensive overview of embedded librarianship, a new model of library service that promises to enhance the strategic value of contemporary knowledge work. |
November 2012
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| Book Review: Information 2.0 |
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption. |
November 2012
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| Book Review: Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a practical guide to mobile technology and its use in delivering library services. |
November 2012
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| Book Review: The E-copyright Handbook |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting. |
November 2012
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| Book Review: Understanding Information and Computation |
Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics. |
November 2012
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 69 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69. |
July 2012
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| Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme. |
July 2012
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| Evaluation of Assessment Diaries and GradeMark at the University of Glamorgan |
Karen Fitzgibbon and Alice Lau describe a JISC-funded project in evaluating the pedagogical and workload impact that two assessment- and feedback-related innovations have on students and staff and report on lessons for the sector. |
July 2012
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| Launching a New Community-owned Content Service |
Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections. |
July 2012
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| Making the Most of a Conference |
Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project. |
July 2012
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| Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments |
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content. |
July 2012
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| Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal |
Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform. |
July 2012
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| Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System |
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system. |
July 2012
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| Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath |
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals. |
July 2012
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| The Second British Library DataCite Workshop |
Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012. |
July 2012
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| Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal? |
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions. |
July 2012
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| The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012 |
Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012. |
July 2012
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| JISC Research Information Management: CERIF Workshop |
Rosemary Russell reports on a two-day workshop on research information management and CERIF held in Bristol over 27-28 June 2012. |
July 2012
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| Book Review: Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching |
Wajeehah Aayeshah reviews a comprehensive book on educational games that highlights the attributes of effective games usage but which also identifies the potential problems when using them in a pedagogical context. |
July 2012
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