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John Kirriemuir provides a review of Lorcan Dempsey's book
"The Network Reshapes the Library" which collects together some of the thoughts he has had on libraries, networked information retrieval, publishing and Irish literature.
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John Kirriemuir reports on a British Library Labs and University of Nottingham event in the National Videogame Arcade on 3rd February.
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Marieke Guy,
Philip Hunter,
John Kirriemuir,
Jon Knight and
Richard Waller look back at how Ariadne began 20 years ago as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), how some of the other eLib projects influenced the web we have today and what changes have come, and may yet come, to affect how digital libraries work.
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John Kirriemuir, editor of the first ten issues of Ariadne, reminisces about library and information science e-journals back in the day, looks across the current landscape of online “free to read, free to write for” publications, considers a few questions for budding authors to ask, and highlights some publications to house their words.
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John Kirriemuir reviews the ALA Tech Report "Understanding Gamification" by Bohyun Kim, and finds a high quality introduction to the subject.
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John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.
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John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.
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John Kirriemuir reports on the Edinburgh stage of the launch of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite.
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John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.
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John Kirriemuir writes about an informal survey of Internet Access in the NHS.
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John Kirriemuir outlines current areas of concern in: Information or Hysteria? "Talking sensibly" in the biomedical field.
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Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.
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John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum.
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The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5.
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The editor introduces descriptions of some journals, freely available over the Web, that may be of interest to librarians and information specialists.
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In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance.
John Kirriemuir is the Information Officer for UKOLN and the editor of the Web version of Ariadne.
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In the spring, we held a competition for those eLib projects that had, to date, produced and mounted their own set of Web pages. Here, we announce the winner...
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The editor explains changes in Ariadne format.
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John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at the Libtech '96 event.
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John Kirriemuir gives calls attention to articles describing research of interest elsewhere.
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Ariadne offers its readers a cartoon, poem, and caption competition.
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John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne.
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We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use.
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We take a look at the library and networking facilities in more remote places around the world; in this issue, we feature the Faroe Islands.
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Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.
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The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater.
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Ariadne explains how the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a key IT programme for academic libraries, is shaping up.