Overview of content related to 'google'

Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations.

Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.

Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Martin White enjoys a random walk through a historical survey of humanity's quest to classify and categorise information.

Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa.

Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009.

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58.

Derek Law describes how the University of Strathclyde is choosing to give priority to e-content and services instead of a new building.

Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.

Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is being indexed, sorted and made available for searching by looking at some representative samples.

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.

Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.

Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good.

Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008.

Emma Delaney considers the effects of Web 2.0 on delivering information literacy to library students and end-users.

Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines.