Overview of content related to 'archives'

David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners.

Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry.

Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository.

Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.

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.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values.

Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users.

Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services.

Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries.

This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.

Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi, India, 24-27 February 2004.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38.

Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.

Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.