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Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.
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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.
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Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.
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Laura Akerman and
Kim Durante report on Discovery to Delivery, Creating a First-Class User Experience, a NISO Forum on today's information seekers and current standards developments held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.
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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.
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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.
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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.
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Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.
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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.
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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.
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Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.
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Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.
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Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library.
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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
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Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.
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John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.
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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.
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Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme.
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Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?'
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Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.
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Dennis Nicholson and
Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources.
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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.
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David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s document delivery projects.
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Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries.
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Sheona Farquhar gains an insight into the problems of the information-poor.
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Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes.
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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.
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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.