Buzz - Information Society
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Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work, now in its sixth edition, which examines the information society, its origin, development, its associated issues and the current landscape.
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Book Review: Information 2.0
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption.
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Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries.
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.
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Book Review: From Lending to Learning
Tim Davies reviews a spirited defence of public libraries, which tries to define their core purpose and which argues for a re-positioning of their place in society.
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Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Project Launch Conference
Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011.
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IMPACT Final Conference 2011
Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper.
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Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources
Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. -
Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?
Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role. -
Europeana Open Culture 2010
David Fuegi and Monika Segbert-Elbert report on the annual Europeana Conference, held at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam in October 2010. -
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. -
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. -
IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation
Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009. -
Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content
Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service. -
Book Review: Copyright Compliance
Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy. -
Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications. -
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. -
ECDL 2007
Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007. -
Newsline
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges
Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. -
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. -
Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project
Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level. -
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. -
Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation
Alastair Dunning reports on a conference in Florence about the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material. -
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. -
Book Review: Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics
Sheila Corrall reviews a new landmark book which explains and promotes a distinctive approach to information-related research spanning traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries. -
Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool
Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool. -
Participate in Your Future: The IST2004 Event
Gabriella Szabo reports on a three-day event addressing European policies, strategies and research activities in all areas of the Information Society held in The Hague. -
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. -
Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change
Lise Foster finds this a useful scene setter for the novice and valuable reminder for the professional of the challenges facing today's librarian. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41. -
Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability
Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004. -
e-Culture Horizons: from Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences
Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September 2004. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. -
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. -
Book Review: Joining Up the Dots
Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37. -
Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World
Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle, Washington. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34. -
A Speaking Electronic Librarian
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. -
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. -
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge
Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol. -
Planet SOSIG
Phil Cross reports on a recent workshop for subject gateways in Europe and Dave Boyd look forward to developments within the Geography section of SOSIG. -
ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. -
Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond
Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information. -
Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down?
Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium. -
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission. -
Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site
Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site. -
VITAL services? Evaluating IT access in Public Libraries
Project officer Juliet Eve discusses the value and impact of end-user IT services in public libraries. -
ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems
Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS). -
Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn?
Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries. -
I Have Seen the Future and IT Works
Chris Batt Director of Library Services, Croydon, discusses Information Technology. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18
The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18. -
UKOLUG
Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference. -
Supporting Learners at a Distance
Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access. -
BOBCATSSS
Christine Dugdale reports on the 6th BOBCATSSS International Symposium, Budapest. -
International FEMIRC Conference, Warsaw
Philip Hunter reports from the International Conference on Activities in Science and Technology in CEEC towards European Integration, organised by the OPI (Information Processing Centre) in Warsaw . -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song
Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network. -
The History of History
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. -
Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10
John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version. -
Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research
Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme. -
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. -
A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site
A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World. -
Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field. -
British Library Corner: Text and the Internet
Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet. -
European Libraries Programme
The European Libraries Programme - instant cash for libraries who can hitch a ride on the Euro gravy train? Or another limited budget R&D programme for those content to live on bread and water? Rosalind Johnson of the UK National Focal Point for the European Libraries Programme explains all. -
The Importance of Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS): The European Connection
David Kay describes ACTS, the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services, a programme under the European Community 4th Framework Research & Technology Development Programme, consisting of around 120 projects. -
Copyright Corner
Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems. -
Interface
Interview with Paul Evan Peters, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information.