Overview of content related to 'repositories'

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

Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners.

Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements.

Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property.

Bruce Royan considers the ironies of communicating the state of the art of digital libraries by means of a print publication.

Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’.

Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed.

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.

Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice.

Sally Rumsey reviews a book which describes and explains the topics of interest central to practitioners involved with research data management.

Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software.

Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.

Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments.

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.

Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September.

Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010.

Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems.

Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.