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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: The Myths of Innovation |
Lina Coelho takes a look at Scott Berkun's challenging view of what innovation and creativity really mean. |
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Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide, 2nd Edition |
Elly Cope reviews the second edition of this book in which the author explains how RSS and blogging can be used by librarians and libraries. |
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Book Review: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries |
Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software. |
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Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services |
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. |
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Book Review: Preparing Collections for Digitization |
Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation. |
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Book Review: The Expert Library |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book taking a hard look at academic libraries, how they are being redefined and what skills will be required of the staff who will move them forward. |
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Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It |
While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition. |
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Book Review: Being an Information Innovator |
John Paschoud reviews a book which formalises the processes of being what many of us would like to be within our information-based organisations - innovators and entrepreneurs of the Information Age. |
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Book Review: The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping |
John Azzolini reviews an anthology of perceptive essays on the challenges presented to archival thought and practice by Web 2.0, postmodern perspectives, and cross-disciplinary interchanges. |
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Book Review: From Lending to Learning |
Tim Davies reviews a spirited defence of public libraries, which tries to define their core purpose and which argues for a re-positioning of their place in society. |
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Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments. |
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Book Review: Innovations in Information Retrieval |
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on a wide range of current topics and challenges in information retrieval. |
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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. |
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Book Review: Mob Rule Learning |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer. |
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Book Review: Managing Research Data |
Sally Rumsey reviews a book which describes and explains the topics of interest central to practitioners involved with research data management. |
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Book Review: Implementing Technology in Libraries |
Elizabeth McHugh reviews a first published work that she feels is a straightforward, jargon-free guide on how to implement technology solutions in libraries. |
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Book Review: Using Games to Enhance Learning and Teaching |
Wajeehah Aayeshah reviews a comprehensive book on educational games that highlights the attributes of effective games usage but which also identifies the potential problems when using them in a pedagogical context. |
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Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal? |
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’. |
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Book Review: Information Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation |
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching. |
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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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Book Review: The Embedded Librarian |
John Azzolini reviews a comprehensive overview of embedded librarianship, a new model of library service that promises to enhance the strategic value of contemporary knowledge work. |
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Book Review: Information 2.0 |
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption. |
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Book Review: The E-copyright Handbook |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting. |
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Book Review: Understanding Information and Computation |
Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics. |
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Book Review: Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a practical guide to mobile technology and its use in delivering library services. |
