Buzz - Higher Education
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Developing Adaptable, Efficient Mobile Library Services: Librarians as Enablers
Lizzie Caperon describes how library resources can be targeted towards effective mobile services as mobile devices become increasingly prevalent in Higher Education.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 73
The Editor introduces Issue 73 and provides an update on the future of Ariadne.
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Internet Librarian International Conference 2014
Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.
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Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.
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SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond
Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.
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The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland
Aoife Lawton and Eimear Flynn discuss the value of open access publishing for allied health professions and their work in the health services with particular reference to Ireland.
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Visualising Building Access Data
Gary Brewerton and Jason Cooper describe how the imposition of visitor access control for safety purposes was developed into a useful management tool to measure library building usage.
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Book Review: Digital Dieting - From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness
Kevin Sanders examines Tara Brabazon’s latest analytical work which investigates the proliferation of low-quality information in the digital realm and the issues of excessive reliance on social tools for learning.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 72
The new editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 72.
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LinkedUp: Linking Open Data for Education
Marieke Guy, Mathieu d’Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Eelco Herder and Elisabetta Parodi describe the activities carried out by the LinkedUp Project looking at the promotion of open data in education.
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Open Access and Research Conference 2013: Discovery, Impact and Innovation
Paula Callan, Stephanie Bradbury, Sarah Brown, Philippa Broadley, Emma Nelms and Christopher Hart report on Open Access and Research 2013 which focused on recent developments and the strategic advantages they bring to the research sector.
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Shared Repositories, Shared Benefits: Regional and Consortial Repositories in Japan
Takeo Ozono, Daisuke Ueda and Fumiyo Ozaki describe the work of the ShaRe Project and its influence upon the development of consortial repositories and the benefits they have brought to Japanese institutions.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 71
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.
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Editorial: Ariadne Carries On
The editor writes of the next coils in Ariadne's thread, and bids farewell.
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Hita-Hita: Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Japan Ten Years On
Ikuko Tsuchide, Yui Nishizono, Masako Suzuki, Shigeki Sugita, Kazuo Yamamoto and Hideki Uchijima introduce a number of ideas and projects that have enhanced the progress of the Open Access movement and institutional repositories in Japan over the last ten years.
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ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.
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Engaging Researchers with Social Media Tools: 25 Research Things@Huddersfield
Graham Stone and Ellen Collins investigate whether 25 Research Things, an innovative online learning programme, could help researchers understand the value of Web 2.0 tools.
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Implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System
Gary Brewerton takes us step by step through the various stages of implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System for your institution.
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JABES 2013
Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013.
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KAPTUR the Highlights: Exploring Research Data Management in the Visual Arts
Leigh Garrett, Marie-Therese Gramstadt, Carlos Silva and Anne Spalding describe the exploration of the importance and nature of research data in the visual arts and requirements for their appropriate curation and preservation.
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Making Citation Work: A British Library DataCite Workshop
Alex Ball reports on a workshop on practical data citation issues for institutions, held at the British Library, London, on 8 March 2013.
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The Performance-based Funding Model: Creating New Research Databases in Sweden and Norway
Leif Eriksson describes how the introduction of Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFS) has created new forms of research databases in Sweden and Norway.
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The Potential of Learning Analytics and Big Data
Patricia Charlton, Manolis Mavrikis and Demetra Katsifli discuss how the emerging trend of learning analytics and big data can support and empower learning and teaching.
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'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language
Brian Kelly, Dominik Lukeš and Alistair McNaught highlight the risks of attempting to standardise easy-to-read language for online resources.
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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: The Embedded Librarian
John Azzolini reviews a comprehensive overview of embedded librarianship, a new model of library service that promises to enhance the strategic value of contemporary knowledge work.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 70
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.
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Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant.
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Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework.
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Online Information 2012
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.
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Seb Schmoller Replies
Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning.
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Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management
Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.
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Book Review: Implementing Technology in Libraries
Elizabeth McHugh reviews a first published work that she feels is a straightforward, jargon-free guide on how to implement technology solutions in libraries.
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Book Review: Information Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching.
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Book Review: Managing Research Data
Sally Rumsey reviews a book which describes and explains the topics of interest central to practitioners involved with research data management.
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Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal?
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions.
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Evaluation of Assessment Diaries and GradeMark at the University of Glamorgan
Karen Fitzgibbon and Alice Lau describe a JISC-funded project in evaluating the pedagogical and workload impact that two assessment- and feedback-related innovations have on students and staff and report on lessons for the sector.
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JISC Research Information Management: CERIF Workshop
Rosemary Russell reports on a two-day workshop on research information management and CERIF held in Bristol over 27-28 June 2012.
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Launching a New Community-owned Content Service
Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.
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Making the Most of a Conference
Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project.
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Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal
Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform. -
Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.
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Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 68
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.
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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.
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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.
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The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Liz Lyon proposes that libraries re-position, re-profile and ramp up their engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science.
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A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector?
Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 2011. -
Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. -
Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath
Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath. -
DataCite UK User Group Meeting
Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011. -
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. -
Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment
Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP). -
MyMobileBristol
Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project. -
Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges
Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath. -
UK Reading Experience Database
Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011. -
10 Years of Zetoc
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. -
Never Waste a Good Crisis: Innovation and Technology in Institutions
Tore Hoel reports on the CETIS 2010 Conference, 15 - 16 November 2010 at the National College for Leadership of Schools and Childrens' Services Conference Centre, Nottingham. -
Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?
Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role. -
Book Review: Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies
Brian Whalley looks at a student survival aid in the information age that should also be valuable for tutors. -
CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65. -
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. -
Locating Image Presentation Technology Within Pedagogic Practice
Marie-Therese Gramstadt contextualises image presentation technology and methods within a pedagogic framework for the visual arts. -
Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. -
Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers
Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector. -
Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. -
Book Review: Digital Information - Order Or Anarchy?
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a review of a work which examines the future of digital information and emerging patterns of scholarly communication. -
Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment
Brian Westra describes a data services needs assessment for science research staff at the University of Oregon. -
E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content
Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. -
Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University
Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future. -
Evidence, Value and Impact: The LIS Research Landscape in 2010
Stephanie Kenna reports on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, held at the British Library on 28 June 2010. -
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010
Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services. -
Intute Reflections at the End of an Era
Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year. -
Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS
Nick Sheppard reports on the event examining integrated, systemic approaches to research information management organised by the Welsh Repository Network and supported by JISC and ARMA at Leeds Metropolitan University, in May 2010. -
Open Repositories 2010
Philip Hunter and Robin Taylor report on the Open Repositories Conference held in Madrid between 6 -9 July 2010 at the Palacio de Congresos. -
Public Library 2.0: Culture Change?
Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries' growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging. -
Book Review: Supporting Research Students
Brian Whalley reviews a work which helps Library and Information Science Staff at Higher Education Institutions to support their research students. -
Don't You Know Who I Am?
John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. -
Mobilising the Internet Detective
Diana Massam, Andrew Priest and Caroline Williams describe a recent project to adapt the online Internet Detective tutorial, to deliver a user-friendly mobile site which reflects their market research into user preferences for mobile content. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum
Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010. -
A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies
Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research. -
Book Review: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism. -
Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?
Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset. -
Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management
Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. -
The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers
William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources. -
The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event
Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS. -
Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. -
Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data
Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The RSP Goes 'Back to School'
Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland. -
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. -
Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme
Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme. -
Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context
Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector. -
Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project
Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project. -
JISC Digital Content Conference 2009
Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers
Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities. -
A Support Framework for Remote Workers
Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely. -
EThOS: from Project to Service
Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 59: The Loneliness of the Long-distance Worker
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 59. -
From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society
Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009. -
NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability
Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana University, on 26-27 March 2009. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009
Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009. -
Book Review: Transformative Learning Support Models in Higher Education
Sarah Ward considers a work which brings together perspectives on learner support from academics, librarians and student support professionals. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility
Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector. -
dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days
Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009. -
Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access
Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions. -
Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution
Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008. -
Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers
Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. -
eResearch Australasia 2008
Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008. -
A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator
Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008. -
A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working
Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation. -
Blended Learning and Online Tutoring: Planning Learner Support and Activity Design
Lyn Parker does not consider that the second edition has changed considerably from the first edition despite the publishers' blurb to the contrary. Nonetheless, she feels there is much of value. -
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate
Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008. -
Lost in the JISC Information Environment
Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment. -
New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies
Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting
Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008. -
Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch
Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training. -
Libraries of the Future
Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. -
The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008
Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond. -
Book Review: Blended Learning
Brian Whalley reviews Barbara Allan's book on blended learning for Information and Library Science staff and educational developers. -
Book Review: The University of Google
Judy Reading reviews a work that may engender considerable debate in months to come. -
Book Reviews: Digital Information and Knowledge Management, and Print Vs. Digital
Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship, information providers and library users. -
E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK
Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for Day-to-day Use
Richard Green and Chris Awre describe work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart of its personalised digital repository provision. -
We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54. -
Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53. -
Googlepository and the University Library
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. -
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. -
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. -
Digital Repositories: Dealing With the Digital Deluge
Pete Cliff gives an overall view of the multi-stranded JISC conference held in Manchester over 5-6 June 2007. -
EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community
Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52. -
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. -
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. -
JASIG June 2007 Conference
Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007. -
Repositories Support Project Summer School
Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team. -
Repository Thrills and Spills
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative. -
Book Review: E-learning and Disability in Higher Education
Simon Ball reviews a comprehensive discussion of e-learning and accessibility that gives support and guidance to effect good practice from individual to institutional level. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The JISC Annual Conference 2007
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. -
Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching
Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. -
JISC CETIS Conference, 2006
Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006. -
Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education
Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim provide an overview of some considerations for change agents attempting to introduce an innovative new information communication technology service into Higher Education institutions. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Web Curator Tool
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. -
Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository
Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. -
Book Review: Evaluating the Impact of Your Library
David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology. -
Intute: The New Best of the Web
Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future. -
JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006
Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'. -
Book Review: The Institutional Repository
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. -
Digital Policy Management Workshop
Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico
Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. -
Retrospective on the RDN
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. -
The Digital Library and Its Services
Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006. -
The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference
Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding
John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Projects Into Services: The UK Experience
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services. -
Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects
Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic. -
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. -
What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective
Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. -
Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. -
Looking for More Than Text?
Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. -
Planet-SOSIG
Flora Watson introduces a new podcasting service from Biz/ed and Angela Joyce reports on the latest developments in the Eurostudies section of SOSIG. -
Web Focus: Must Email Die?
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. -
Book Review: Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library
Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library. -
Book Review: The Academic Library
Ruth Jenkins wishes this textbook had been available when she was a library school student. -
Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project
Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet-SOSIG
Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week. -
Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible E-Learning
Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context for their use. -
Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit
Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites. -
10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest Group Meeting
Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal learning profiles. -
Book Review: Managing Digital Rights - A Practitioner's Guide
Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. -
EuroCAMP 2005
Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino. -
Installing Shibboleth
Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. -
Waking Up in the British Library
Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature. -
What Are Your Terms?
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. -
Assessing the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the FE and HE Sectors
Steve Bailey describes how the FE and HE sectors have prepared for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and what challenges still lay ahead. -
Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts
Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'. -
Book Review: How to Find Information
Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition. -
Looking for a Google Box?
Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. -
Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project
Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services. -
EEVL News: EEVL Update
Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at some recent developments to the EEVL service. -
How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries
Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. -
Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation
Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area. -
Planet-SOSIG
Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences. -
Book Review: Developing Web-based Instruction
Lyn Parker finds this compilation a useful overview of the issues involved in developing e-learning and a valuable addition to the literature. -
EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want
Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Tap Into Bath
Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath. -
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. -
Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing
Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development. -
Book Review: Developing Academic Library Staff for Future Success
Stephen Town considers this new multi-author volume, appreciates its many qualities and reflects on the key issues for library staff development in the digital future. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports
This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring. -
Through the Web Authoring Tools
Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing. -
Book Review: Centred on Learning
Bruce Royan takes a structured look at this series of case studies and analyses their view of the Learning Resource Centre phenomenon. -
Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy
Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Reaching Out to Your Community: Policies and Practice for Public Library Service
Fiona Leslie gives an overview of this seminar which covered a variety of topics of interest to public library professionals. -
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. -
What the Resource Discovery Network Is Doing for Further Education
Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users. -
What's in SOSIG for Further Education?
Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners. -
Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse
Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse. -
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
OpenURL Meeting
Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003. -
Towards a Typology for Portals
Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them. -
Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available
Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides. -
Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit. -
Framework for the Future: Access to Digital Skills and Services (Including e-Government)
Penny Garrod examines further this government blueprint and argues that some have to walk before they can run. -
Just a Distraction?: External Content in Institutional Portals
Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research.
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MIMAS Ten Years on
Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet SOSIG
Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service. -
Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different
Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme -
The 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop
Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003. -
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. -
Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report
Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments. -
Apart from the Weather, I Think It’s a Good Idea: Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals
Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. -
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation
Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment. -
JISC 2003 Conference Report
Philip Pothen reports on Secretary of State Charles Clarke's view of the importance of ICT in the education sector and the role of the JISC in its implementation. -
Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses
Alejandro Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs presents a new course for social researchers in Government. -
Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. -
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. -
What Features in a Portal?
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34. -
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage
Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models. -
Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century
Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002. -
Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002
Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. -
The Personalisation of the Digital Library
Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002. -
Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities. -
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Portals, Portals Everywhere
Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms. -
Public Libraries: United We Stand
Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world. -
Student Searching Behaviour in the JISC Information Environment
Jill R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy report on work in progress and air some initial findings on the EDNER project, which undertakes evaluation of the developing JISC Information Environment. -
Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards
Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously. -
Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points
Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites. -
EEVL
Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels. -
First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?
Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib. -
Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting
John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware. -
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. -
Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop
Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde. -
News from the Resource Discovery Network
Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite. -
Oxford Puts Its Reference Works Online
Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford University Press reference Web site. -
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. -
The AIM25 Project
Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions. -
The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme
Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme. -
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. -
Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies
Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column. -
Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers
Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers. -
eVALUEd: An Evaluation Model for e-Library Developments
Becky Hartland-Fox and Pete Dalton on a project to develop a transferable model for e-library evaluation. -
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. -
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. -
Do They Need to Know?
Andrew Cox and James Currall on the issue of Web security. -
Managed Learning?
Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Public Libraries
Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus. -
The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Jenny Rowley introduces the JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. -
Architects of the Information Age
Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29. -
Establishing a Digital Library Centre
John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions. -
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. -
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. -
Subject Portals
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. -
Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey
Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community. -
INSPIRAL: Digital Libraries and Virtual Learning Environments
Sarah Currier introduces the JISC project INSPIRAL, which is investigating what's involved in joining digital libraries and VLEs to create a fully integrated online learning experience. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges
Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems. -
Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students
Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments. -
The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution
Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector. -
The eLib Hybrid Library Projects
Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife -
Virtual Training Suite Launch
John Kirriemuir reports on the Edinburgh stage of the launch of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite. -
Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages
Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages. -
After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning
Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning. -
E-Books for Students: EBONI
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. -
EEVL
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng with some useful tips on Shoestring Marketing for projects. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw
Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27. -
Hylife: Ten Steps to Success
Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project. -
Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. -
After eLib
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy. -
BIOME News
Paula Manning with a brief report on the official launch of BIOME at the Royal Society on the 2nd of November 2000. -
Clumps Come Up Trumps
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. -
E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing?
Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER. -
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. -
Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA)
Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library). -
Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV
Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC. -
A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways
Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site
Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives. -
Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press. -
The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies
George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR. -
Virtual Universities: Institutional Issues for Information Professionals
Jonathan Foster examines the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals. -
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web
Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath. -
Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites. -
Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library
Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering. -
Agora: From Information Maze to Market
Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24. -
JASPER Further Education Meeting
Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community. -
JSTOR Usage
Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success. -
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Theory and Practice of the Virtual University
Neil Pollock and James Cornford report on UK universities use of new technologies. -
Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9
Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000. -
Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers
How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers. -
Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March -
Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems
John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access. -
EEVL: EMC Update
Sheridan Dunkley on the partnership between Islington Libraries, London, and CyberSkills. -
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. -
Planet SOSIG
Justine Kitchen of the Resource Discovery Network Centre reports on the recent SOSIG relaunch, and Debra Hiom explores New Learning and Teaching Support Networks in the Social Sciences -
The DISinHE Centre: Web CT Accessibility
Murray Rowan examines WebCT from the point of view of accessibility. -
The World's Greatest Dictionary' Goes Online
Juliet New explains the background to the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, launched on the 14 March 2000. -
Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services
Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services. -
Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites. -
Clumps As Catalogues
Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?' -
Delivering the Electronic Library: The ARIADNE Reader
John MacColl on the new ARIADNE Reader. -
Digitizing Intellectual Property: The Oxford Scoping Study
Stuart Lee discusses the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 22: Ariadne's Thread
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 22, looks at Ariadne's web accesses for the past year, and previews the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). -
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. -
RDN: Resource Discovery Network
Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network) -
Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways
Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways. -
An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia
Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives. -
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. -
DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility
Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility. -
Developing the Bath Profile
Paul Miller with details of the "Bath Profile" - a Z39.50 specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery. -
EEVL: 'Not a Success'
Roddy Macleod embarks on a tendentious argument. -
Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?
Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services -
Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." -
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know?
Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business -
CTI-AFM Conference
Christine Dugdale reports on the 10th CTI-AFM Annual Conference, Brighton. -
Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20. -
JISC ASSIST
Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit. -
JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community
Alicia Wise discusses NESLI. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. -
Milestone for Mailbase: Ten Years Value-Added Service to UK Higher Education
Elaine Blair discusses Mailbase services ten years on. -
Planet SOSIG
Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services. -
Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn?
Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries. -
The DISinHE Centre
Professor Alan Newell asks: How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities? -
The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy
Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy. -
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. -
Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service
Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service. -
Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?
Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one. -
Instructional Management Systems
John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project. -
Metadata: Image Retrieval
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. -
Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?
Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux. -
The DISinHE Centre
Ian Webb introduces the DISinHE centre. -
WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project
Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project. -
BIDS Begets Ingenta
The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered. -
CATRIONA II Management Survey
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources. -
CEDARS
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. -
DiLIS
Debbie Lock introduces a new service, Distance Learners Information Service (DiLIS), from the University of Surrey Library and Information Services. -
Down Your Way: University of Abertay Dundee Library
Ariadne visits the University of Abertay Dundee's new library. -
Exploring Planet SOSIG: Sociology
In this edition, Stuart Macwilliam, the section editor for Sociology, gives an overview of the resources likely to be found in his section. This is preceded by news of some 'mutual mirroring' across the Atlantic, involving SOSIG and the Internet Scout Project. -
Hybrid Libraries
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps -
Knowledge Management
Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether. -
Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. -
Looking Back in Anger: A Retrospective
Don Revill, former Head of Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a retrospective. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Of Arms and the Man We Sing
John MacColl talks to Chris Rusbridge about the eLib programme. -
Public Libraries Corner
Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does. -
Subject-Based Information Gateways
Linda Kerr and Roddy MacLeod attended the recent CEI meeting at the Policy Studies Institute, London. -
The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects. -
Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs
Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth. -
Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? -
A New Publication for a New Challenge
John MacColl and Lyndon Pugh discuss their proposal for a web and print magazine for Information and IT professionals in UK Higher Education. -
Building on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations
Clive Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation. -
DEDICATE
Nancy Fjaellbrant and Philippa Levy DEDICATE, the European Telematics project for online professional development in information literacy and user education, descended from eLib NetLinkS. -
View from the Hill: Mark Clark
Mark Clark risks the longer view. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17
The web editors, Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly, introduce Ariadne issue 17. -
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management
Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle. -
Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium
Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives. -
Heron: Higher Education Resources Online
Carolyn Rowlinson outlines the aims of the Heron eLib project. -
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. -
Law Vs Jordan
Stephen Gough discusses: Who makes the best manager of a converged service? -
Metadata Corner
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. -
SKIP: Skills for New Information Professionals
Penny Garrod reviews the Skills for new Information Professionals project -
Supporting Learners at a Distance
Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access. -
Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies
Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Project Builder
Stephen Pinfield outlines the aims of Project Builder, a phase-3 eLib project. -
Showing Robots the Door
Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled. -
View from the Hill
Lyndon Pugh interviews Anne Mumford, head of JISC ASSIST. -
EDDIS
David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s document delivery projects. -
Information Services: A Mission and a Vision
Les Watson asks how we use technology in general as part of the learning process, in this extended version of the main article in the print version of Ariadne -
MODELS
Rosemary Russell reports on MODELS workshop, held on 5-6 February 1998. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Public Libraries Corner: An Internet Open Day
Sally Criddle describes a World Wide Web training event organised by UKOLN and the University of Bath for the 1997 National Libraries Week. -
Task Force Meeting
Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference. -
The People's Library
Lyndon Pugh discusses the latest noises from government over public library networking and life-long learning. -
Copyright Corner
Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries. -
Dearing, IT and Information Services: Two Cheers (or One and a Half?)
Lyndon Pugh reviews a serious attempt to square a circle. -
Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine
Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine. -
HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)
Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment). -
Hylife
Ian Winkworth describes a Hybrid Library project for all. -
M25 Link
Jean Sykes discusses M25 Link, a virtual clump for London. -
The Impact of IMPEL
Jim Huntingford reviews IMPEL, an eLib project. -
Web Focus Corner: The World Wide Web Consortium
Brian Kelly ponders whether the academic community can have a role in shaping the web of the future. -
Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?
Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists. -
Consortium and Site Licensing
Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group. -
Interface: Hymns Ancient and Modern
Lyndon Pugh talks to Mary Auckland, Chair, Committee on Electronic Information (CEI) Content Working Group. -
JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution
Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors. -
Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki. -
Minotaur: We Must Not Be Driven by IT
Ray Lester says IT is not just a tool in an information strategy. -
The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form
Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site. -
The History of History
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. -
Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges
Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project. -
BULISC '97
John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2. -
Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries
Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change in academic libraries. -
Conference Goes One Step Beyond
John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library. -
Libtech '97
Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire. -
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. -
Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT)
Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography. -
SKIP: Skills for new Information Professionals
Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS. This article is an extended version of that which appears in the print edition of Ariadne.
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Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK
Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK). -
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. -
Changing the Lightbulb – Er, the Culture: How Many eLib Projects Does It Take to Change the Higher Education Culture?
Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss what it takes to change Higher Education culture. -
Cybercollege Scorecard: How Does Your University Score?
Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning. -
Dublin Core Management
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. -
Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?
Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals. -
Interface: Dennis Nicholson
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. -
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 -
Press Release – JISC / Caul Collaboration Agreement
Kelly Russell outlines the collaboration between JISC and CAUL, and announces the appointment of the post of International Co-ordinator. -
View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski
John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights. -
Web Editorial: Goodbyeee
The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues. -
r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe
Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. -
2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support
Sarah Ashton introduces the forthcoming 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support, to be held in Sheffield on 23-24 June 1997. -
Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes
Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event. -
From Aberystwyth to ADAM: Using the Skills Acquired on a Library School Course in the Real World
Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not) to her current role, developing a network-based subject gateway. -
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine
Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create. -
Minotaur: David Allen and Tom Wilson
David Allen and Tom Wilson lament the return of IT strategies. -
Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures
Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes. -
SCOPE
Leah Halliday believes there is SCOPE for a major shift in the publication of study texts. -
The NHS, the Internet and Libraries: The NHS Anglia and Oxford Internet Project
Judy Palmer and Myles Chippendale describe an initiative that is using the Internet to connect widely dispersed health libraries. -
View from the Hill: Anne Dixon
Amy Tucker peers into the future of Physics journal publishing with Anne Dixon -
Around the Table – Engineering
Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources. -
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library
Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London. -
CEI Looks for Bold Response
John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work. -
Disabil-IT? Conference
Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities. -
Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students With Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues
Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed. -
From MERCI to DESIRE: European Digital Library Projects
Dave Hartland writes the Netskills Corner column for this edition. In it, he provides a brief overview of some of the EU-funded Telematics for Research projects. -
Interface: Jane Core
Chris Bailey discusses librarians and learning with Jane Core of EduLib. -
Introducing Web Focus
UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium. -
Patient Education: A Role for Multimedia
Paul Garrud discusses the potential for on-line patient education multimedia. -
The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)
In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8
John Kirriemuir with the editorial for the Web version of Ariadne issue 8. -
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF. -
Biz/ed
Catherine Sladen describes an information gateway for Business Studies and Economics. -
Controlling Access in the Electronic Library
Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. -
Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme
After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen. -
DeLiberations
Graham Alsop explains how an interactive electronic magazine can improve teaching methods. -
Networking Moving Images
Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. -
Print Journals: Fit for the Future?
Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate. -
SCRAN: A Taste of Scotland and Food for Thought
Bruce Royan outlines an epic millennium project to digitise much of the culture and heritage of Scotland. -
View from the Hill
John MacColl quizzes John Kelleher of the Tavistock Institute about the E-word. -
10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. -
British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?
Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research. -
ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology
Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives. -
Infopolecon
John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way. -
Information Strategies Get Down to Business
John MacColl on the JISC approach to Information Strategies. -
Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia?
The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour. -
MIDRIB
Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images. -
Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users
Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource. -
Networked Learner Support Current Practice Case Base
Sarah Ashton describes the Current Practice Case Base, an index of links to sites that demonstrate a use of networked learner support. -
Review of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net
Marylaine Block describes the construction of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net. -
The BNBMARC Currency Survey
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. -
The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University
Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter. -
CAUSE / EFFECT
Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. -
CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative)
The CTI, set up in 1989, offers a UK-wide service to academic staff in higher education institutions through its network of 24 subject-based centres. Joyce Martin, acting head of the CTI Support Service, describes this HEFCE funded initiative. -
Croatian Libraries: The War Is Behind Us, What Brings the Future?
Croatian Libraries: "The war is behind us, what brings the future?": Jadranka Stojanovski, the head of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library, describes the post-war progress made in implementing IT and networks in Croatian Libraries. -
FDTL: The Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning
Gerry Taggart gives a brief outline of this HEFCE funded programme of projects geared towards teaching and learning using IT. -
HELIX
Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme. -
JISC Projects Ahead
John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document. -
MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship
Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship. -
The International Institute for Electronic Library Research: A New Kid on the Block
Marilyn Deegan describes the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, a significant new centre of research based at De Montfort University. -
The SURF Foundation
Jaqueline Pieters describes the evolution of the SURF Foundation, a major IT co-ordination service for the Dutch academic sector. -
UKERNA: Training the Networkers
John MacCulloch and Jane Batchelor, from UKERNA, detail their training course, designed for those installing, running, supporting, or managing a JANET connection. -
View from the Hill: Internet Cafes
John MacColl orders lunch with a portion of e-mail. -
eLib Column
Kelly Russell, the assistant co-ordinator of the eLib programme, with a few words on how the project (and the programme as a whole) can be reflected in terms of success and/or failure. -
Are They Being Served?
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. -
Charging Ahead?
Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries. -
Down Your Very Long Way Away
J. Correia describes the use of the Internet in Macau. -
IMPEL2: What Is eLib Doing to Us All?
Catherine Edwards describes the IMPEL2 project, from the Supporting Studies area of the programme. -
MIDRIB
Julian Cook describes a project that deals with the storage and access of medical images. -
Netlinks Symposium
Sarah Ashton reports from the Netlinks Symposium, organised by the Netlinks eLib project and the Department of Information Studies in the University of Sheffield. -
Research Elsewhere
John Kirriemuir gives calls attention to articles describing research of interest elsewhere. -
Serving the Arts and Humanities
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. -
TLTP: Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
Joanna Tiley describes TLTP. The Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK, is a collection of 70+ projects aimed to 'make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology'. -
AC/DC
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain. -
ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media
Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead. -
CURL OPAC launch
Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester. -
ELVIRA
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. -
Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview
An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant. -
Link: A New Beginning for BUBL
Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'. -
Mailbase Reviewed
Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK. -
Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib
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. -
Meta Detectors
Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK. -
Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries
Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain. -
A MAN for All Reasons?
Derek Law, the Director of Information Services and Systems at Kings College and chair of JISC's ISSC, details his vision of the cooperation between the library sectors blossoming through the use of Metropolitan Area Networks. -
Down Your Very Long Way Away
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. -
Netskills: A Major Training Programme
The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater. -
SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network
Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers. -
Spotlight on BIDS
BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people. -
View from the Hill
Matthew Evans, Chairman of Faber and Faber and of the recently formed Library and Information Commission, in discussion with Lorcan Dempsey. -
Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley
Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email. -
EduLib: The National Network of Electronic Library Accredited Trainers
EduLib is an eLib project from the training and awareness section of the programme. Jane Core describes the project, and how it will affect librarians in the Higher Education community. -
OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information
Frank Norman, project co-ordinator, describes OMNI, what it can do for you (and you for it). OMNI is an eLib project from the Access to Network Resources programme area. It consists of a well-maintained and expanding database of medical and health resources that can be accessed through JANET/Internet. This database can be searched, via a World Wide Web browser; in addition, catalogues of the resources are available for browsing. -
Sceptics Column
Jim Smith finds that the Internet is no place to do research. -
eLib Starts to Deliver
Ariadne explains how the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a key IT programme for academic libraries, is shaping up.