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Reviews in Ariadne evaluate books and events of interest to information professionals.
- Total number of 'review' items in all Ariadne issues: 192
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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. |
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Book Review: iPad - The Missing Manual |
Brian Whalley reviews a manual to help support your use of an iPad - 'the book that should have been in the box'. |
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Book Review: Approximately 97 Things |
Pete Cliff learns something new in this 'Open Source' book every time he makes the tea. |
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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. |
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Book Review: Library Mashups |
Aldalin Lyngdoh reviews a book on the basics of mashups and how they have been used in libraries worldwide. |
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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. |
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Product Review: The IPad and the Educator, First Impressions |
Brian Whalley reports on his initial impressions of the new Apple iPad in the first three weeks since its release in the USA and what it has to offer the mobile educator. |
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Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age |
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! |
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Book Review: Copyright - Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services |
Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback. |
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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. |
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Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper |
Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations. |
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Book Review: Information Tomorrow |
Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries. |
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Book Review: M-Libraries |
Simon Speight reviews a collection of papers from the First International M-Libraries Conference, which examined potential library uses of mobile phones and other portable technology. |
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Book Review: Digital Consumers - Reshaping the Information Professions |
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work which examines digital consumers from both an historical and future perspective. |
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Book Review: GLUT - Mastering Information through the Ages |
Martin White enjoys a random walk through a historical survey of humanity's quest to classify and categorise information. |
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Book Review: Libraries Designed for Kids |
Sara Wingate Gray considers a practical guide to implementing design change in children's libraries and how to manage a consistent approach. |
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Book Review: Making Digital Cultures - Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity |
Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both challenging and thought-provoking. |
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Book Review: Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up? |
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Book Review: Reader Development in Practice |
Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches to the topic of reader development. |
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Book Review: Sketching Tomorrow - The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of modern society to information and communication technologies and observes more sins of omission than commission. |
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Book Review: Presentation Zen - Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery |
Marieke Guy gets in touch with her inner PowerPoint Zen. |
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Book Review: Integrating Geographic Information Systems Into Library Services |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a much needed work on offering GIS services in libraries. |
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Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice. |
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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. |
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Book Review: Website Optimization |
Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband. |
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Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World |
Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century. |
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Book Review: Patent Failure - How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk |
Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key assumptions about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective. |
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Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups |
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services. |
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Book Review: Against the Machine |
Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us. |
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Book Review: Visualizing Data |
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. |
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Book Review: What's the Alternative? |
Lina Coelho takes an enthusiastic view of the opportunities open to library and information professionals presented in this career-enhancing book. |
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Book Review: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0 |
Emma Delaney considers the effects of Web 2.0 on delivering information literacy to library students and end-users. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Book Review: The Thriving Library |
Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times. |
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Book Review: Digital Information Culture |
Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies. |
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Book Review: Information and Emotion |
Stephanie Taylor finds in Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory new ways to understand the emotions of users in a collection of work from the US information behaviour community. |
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Book Review: Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion |
Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements. |
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Book Review: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management |
Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects. |