Sarah Ashton on Ariadne http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/sarah-ashton/ Recent content in Sarah Ashton on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000 Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/12/down-your-way/ Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/12/down-your-way/ Filled with awe at the prospect of meeting the bearer of the weighty title Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, I journeyed to the Radcliffe Science Library in Oxford to meet Dave Price. Dave is also Head of Systems and, wearing this hat, was keen to show me the work that has been done to advance a range of electronic information services. The Radcliffe Science Library is one of seven libraries attached to the Bodleian Library, the largest academic library in Europe. Down Your Way: Thames Valley University http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/10/down-your-way/ Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/10/down-your-way/ The Paul Hamlyn Learning Resource [1] Centre (LRC) opened in Slough in October 1996. Named after the University’s Chancellor, the publisher Paul Hamlyn, the new Slough building is Thames Valley University’s [2] third LRC, and the first to be purpose-built. Described on the one hand as a ‘beautiful barn of a building’ (by its architect, Lord Richard Rogers), and on the other as ‘an electronic hub’ (Mike Fitzgerald, Vice Chancellor, TVU), the LRC unites a wide range of facilities in an environmentally sound setting. 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/9/netlinks/ Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/9/netlinks/ Issue 4’s At the Event column - featuring the 1st International Symposium on Networked Learner Support [1] - had a distinct football theme. So it seems particularly appropriate that I sit down to write about this year’s Symposium on the day of the FA Cup Final! (No footballs at this year’s event; however, be warned that your Editor is threatening to bring his boomerang!) The venue for the 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS) is Halifax Hall, Sheffield. Sideline: Nick Hornby Made Me Do It.. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/7/sideline/ Sun, 19 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/7/sideline/ Nick Hornby made me do it! This is my defence...Unaware of the distractions that lurked in the suburbs of Milton Keynes, I rose at 5.30 a.m. Jogged between bus-stops, in that hesitant 'does the 52 run at this hour?' kind of way. Caught my train and two connections. Bored of pondering life's mysteries (do you stir your coffee with the square or triangular end of the plastic thingie?), serenaded by the Mobile Phone Chorus, I retreated into my book, High Fidelity [1]. Access V Holdings, Cranfield http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/6/cranfield/ Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/6/cranfield/ I can only apologise for the brevity of parts of this report, and offer my excuses in the Sideline column in issue 7 of Ariadne (mid-January 1997). For reasons to be revealed there, I missed the first half of the Access v Holdings seminar, held at Cranfield University on 30th October 1996. [Out of the 38 delegates, I seemed to be the only one to arrive at Cranfield by public transport; perhaps they all knew something that I didn't! Networked Learner Support Current Practice Case Base http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/6/nls-casebook/ Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/6/nls-casebook/ A new addition to the NetLinkS website is the Current Practice Case Base: [http://netways.shef.ac.uk/rbase/intro.htm] This current awareness resource provides links to relevant sites demonstrating networked learner support (NLS) in the UK and abroad. As you are probably aware, NetLinkS is an eLib training and awareness project which aims to encourage the further development of NLS practice within UK higher education, through promoting the development of a networked professional learning community. NLS is the term we have adopted to refer to the use of networked technologies to provide training or other forms of help to users of electronic information resources. Netlinks Symposium http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/4/netlinks/ Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/4/netlinks/ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN”> International Symposium 1st International Symposium on Networked Learner Support Sarah Ashton describes the presentations at the 1st International Symposium on Networked Learner Support, held in mid-June in Sheffield. Sarah is an MA in Librarianship student in the Department of Information Studies, at the University of Sheffield. The European Championships were well under way when 59 delegates descended on Sheffield for the 1st International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (17th and 18th June 1996).