Buzz - Dewey Decimal
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Book Review: Powering Search - The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments
Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.
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21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia
Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work.
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Book Review: Information Science in Transition
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. -
JISC Terminology Services Workshop
Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. -
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003. -
ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive
Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service -
BIOME News
Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway. -
I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?
Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri. -
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. -
Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project. -
BULISC '97
John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2. -
BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. -
NISS: National Information Services and Systems
Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians -
IPL: The Internet Public Library
Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library. -
Putting the UK on the Map
Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. -
Link: A New Beginning for BUBL
Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'.