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Article title	Summary	Date published
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 including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. feature article	issue68 March 2012
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. tooled up	issue68 March 2012
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. feature article	issue68 March 2012
Editorial: Welcome to New Ariadne	The editor introduces readers to the new Ariadne. editorial	issue68 March 2012
Editorial Introduction to Issue 68	The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. editorial	issue68 March 2012
The Future of the Past of the Web	Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. event report	issue68 March 2012
The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011	Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies. event report	issue68 March 2012
IMPACT Final Conference 2011	Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper. event report	issue68 March 2012
Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Project Launch Conference	Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011. event report	issue68 March 2012
Book Review: The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping	John Azzolini reviews an anthology of perceptive essays on the challenges presented to archival thought and practice by Web 2.0, postmodern perspectives, and cross-disciplinary interchanges. review	issue68 March 2012
Book Review: From Lending to Learning	Tim Davies reviews a spirited defence of public libraries, which tries to define their core purpose and which argues for a re-positioning of their place in society. review	issue68 March 2012
Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments	Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments. review	issue68 March 2012
Book Review: Being an Information Innovator	John Paschoud reviews a book which formalises the processes of being what many of us would like to be within our information-based organisations - innovators and entrepreneurs of the Information Age. review	issue68 March 2012
Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It	While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition. review	issue68 March 2012
Data Science Professionals: A Global Community of Sharing	Sylvie Lafortune reports on the 37th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), held over 30 May – 3 June 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. event report	issue68 March 2012
eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments	Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011. event report	issue68 March 2012
Book Review: Innovations in Information Retrieval	Martin White reviews a collection of essays on a wide range of current topics and challenges in information retrieval. review	issue68 March 2012
Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot	Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. editorial	issue67 July 2011
Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources	Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. feature article	issue67 July 2011
Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture	Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools. feature article	issue67 July 2011

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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 including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.