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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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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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Book Review: University Libraries and Space in the Digital World
Hugh Murphy reviews a collection of essays which charts the development and impact of the physical library space and its use in our digital world.
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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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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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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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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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The LIPARM Project: A New Approach to Parliamentary Metadata
Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface.
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Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems.
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Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.
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Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa
Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders.
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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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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. -
10 Years of Zetoc
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. -
International Digital Curation Conference 2010
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. -
Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. -
Repository Fringe 2010
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. -
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. -
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. -
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. -
FRBR in Practice
Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit. -
Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. -
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. -
Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities
Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications. -
Book Review: Information Science in Transition
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planning the Future of the National Library of Mongolia
Monika Segbert-Elbert and David Fuegi describe the National Library of Mongolia's plans to modernise its infrastructure and services. -
RDA: Resource Description and Access
Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010. -
Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way
Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 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. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0
Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world. -
Open Repositories 2009
Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009. -
The Norwegian National Digital Library
Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. -
Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective
Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library. -
iPRES 2008
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Open Repositories 2008
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. -
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use. -
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. -
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
DC 2007
Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore. -
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 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. -
ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF. -
Blogging from the Backroom
Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007. -
IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library
Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects
Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice
Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre. -
Book Review: Digital Preservation
Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series. -
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. -
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving
Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006. -
Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. -
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. -
Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. -
Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context. -
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. -
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. -
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites
Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. -
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. -
Book Review: Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives
Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches to disaster management. -
DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers
Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC. -
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. -
Revealing All
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. -
Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet
Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading. -
National Library Goes Local
Stephanie Kenna and Sue Cook tell the story behind the British Library's online training package for public library staff. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. -
ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience
Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output. -
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. -
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. -
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Public Libraries: Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries?
Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users. -
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. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe
Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development. -
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. -
Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing
Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop -
ECDL-2003 Conference Notes
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage
Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models. -
Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH
David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised. -
A Speaking Electronic Librarian
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. -
Digital Libraries in China
Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau
Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002. -
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. -
Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001. -
Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London. -
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. -
The People's Network and the Learning Revolution: Building the NOF Digitize Programme
Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments. -
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. -
Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research
Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services. -
Metadata: Preservation 2000
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. -
Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch
Sarah Ormes reports on the recent Public Libraries Web Managers Workshop held in the University of Bath. -
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). -
Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet
Phil Bradley offers his latest look at the search engine marketplace. -
In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People
Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software. -
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference -
Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9
Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000. -
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 -
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. -
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission. -
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. -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
Bibliotecas Universitarias Consorcio
Agnès Guyon reports on a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, 26th and 27th April 1999. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. -
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. -
Hybrid Libraries
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps -
Of Arms and the Man We Sing
John MacColl talks to Chris Rusbridge about the eLib programme. -
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. -
Metadata Corner
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16. -
A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?
David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use. -
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. -
What Do National Libraries Do in the Age of the Internet?
Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries. -
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. -
Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning
During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster. -
Interface: Dennis Nicholson
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. -
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. -
Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians
Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway. -
Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45
Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45. -
Down Under With the Dublin Core
Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra. -
JEDDS: Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software Project
Kerry Blinco provides details of a global electronic document delivery project. -
Preserving Oral History Recordings
Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia. -
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. -
OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human
Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources. -
The BNBMARC Currency Survey
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. -
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. -
D-Lib
William Y. Arms, D-Lib publisher and Amy Friedlander, the editor, describe this successful Web-based magazine that carries more technically-minded articles on all aspects of digital/electronic libraries research. -
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet
In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year. -
Provenance
Neal Chan describes Provenance, a Canadian-based Web magazine for Information Professionals. -
Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. -
NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web
Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site. -
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. -
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. -
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.