Buzz - Microsoft Office

• Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing

  Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals.

• From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records

  Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow.

• Locating Image Presentation Technology Within Pedagogic Practice

  Marie-Therese Gramstadt contextualises image presentation technology and methods within a pedagogic framework for the visual arts.

• 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.

• A Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition

  Dave Thompson sets out the pragmatic approach to preferred file formats for long-term preservation used at the Wellcome Library.

• Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources

  Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization.

• Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

  Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

• Being Wired Or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope With Information Overload

  Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload.

• Book Review: Web Accessibility

  Martin White reviews a book that provides advice for managers on how to ensure that Web sites, intranets and library services are fully compliant with guidelines and legislation on accessibility.

• Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day.

• Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?

  Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.

• Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

  Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.

• Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road

  Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office.

• Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards

  Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously.

• Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion

  Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.

• 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.

• Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project

  Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history.

• Web Focus: Hot News From WWW10

  Brian Kelly reports on the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, held in Hong Kong on 1-5 May 2001.

• Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email

  Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility.

• Down Your Way

  Sarah Ormes visits a public library in Huyton, Liverpool, England.

• The Library Association Web Site

  Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site.

• Netskills Corner: Beneath the Surface of Your Web Pages

  Brian Kelly looks beneath the surface of HTML pages and provides advice on the design of the underlying directory structure.