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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: 185
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Book Review: Listen Up! Podcasting for Schools and Libraries |
Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential to take library services and activities to new audiences. |
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Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur |
Stephanie Taylor tries to curb her enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by investigating the dark side of social networking. |
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Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition |
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. |
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The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland |
John MacColl reviews the first two volumes of this very substantial three-part work, covering the periods to 1640 and 1640-1850. |
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Change Management in Information Services |
Ian Lovecy examines change theories and strategies, and their application to creating a change culture in an information service. |
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Book Review: Managing the Test People |
Lina Coelho expected a book that would challenge her technical knowledge and understanding but found a readable and useful guide for the time-pressed manager. |
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Book Review: E-learning and Disability in Higher Education |
Simon Ball reviews a comprehensive discussion of e-learning and accessibility that gives support and guidance to effect good practice from individual to institutional level. |
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Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills |
Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors. |
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Book Review: Digital Literacies for Learning |
Pete Cliff reviews a work that challenges traditional notions of literacy and how suggests that new literacies need to be developed to empower both learners and teachers in the digital age. |
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Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web |
Keith Doyle reviews the 3rd edition of the primary reference book for practising in-house staff and consultants responsible for the development of institutional information architecture. |
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Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide |
Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples. |
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Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems |
Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services. |
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Book Review: Digital Preservation |
Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series. |
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Book Review: Google Hacks |
Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming 'know-how' to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible. |
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Book Review: Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography |
Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson. |
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Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals |
Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals. |
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Book Review: Ambient Findability |
Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges. |
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Book Review: Teach Beyond Your Reach |
Lina Coelho looks at this Instructor's guide to developing and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more. |
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Book Review: Blended Learning and Online Tutoring |
Lyn Parker considers that this book meets its aim of providing practical advice for tutors and staff developers engaged in online activities and blended learning. |
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Book Review: Managing Change |
Donald Maclean reviews a text that lays down guidelines for information managers attempting to analyse, implement and evaluate change within their organisation. |
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Book Review: Evaluating the Impact of Your Library |
David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology. |
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Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition |
Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort. |
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Book Review: The Institutional Repository |
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. |
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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. |
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Book Review: The Virtual Reference Desk |
Lina Coelho feels that digital reference has come of age and that this work is one of its adornments where reference information professionals are concerned. |
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Book Review: The Successful Academic Librarian |
Stephen Town finds this US multi-author work may not meet the needs of readers in the UK, and offers some ideas which a UK version might incorporate. |
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Book Review: The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at this series of personal and researched historical analyses of the history of computerised information retrieval systems, and finds it makes fascinating reading if you are interested in such things. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Book Review: Managing Electronic Records |
Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management. |
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Book Review: E-metrics for Library and Information Professionals |
Elizabeth McHugh learns about the importance of locally produced e-metrics and how they could be produced using available technologies. |
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Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres |
Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings. |
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Book Review: Developing the New Learning Environment |
Stephen Town welcomes this new text on a key issue for the future of academic librarians, and suggests some broader questions for consideration. |
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Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources |
Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed. |
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Book Review: Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services |
Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the acquisitions field. |
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Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38) |
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. |
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Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites |
Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content. |
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Book Review: The Academic Library |
Ruth Jenkins wishes this textbook had been available when she was a library school student. |
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Book Review: Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives |
Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches to disaster management. |
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Book Review: Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library |
Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library. |