Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary |
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| Editorial: Welcome to New Ariadne |
The editor introduces readers to the new Ariadne. |
March 2012
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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| 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. |
March 2012
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