Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface.
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Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts.
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Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service.
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Issue 70, November 2012, feature article
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Rosemary Russell and Brigitte Jörg report on the bi-annual euroCRIS membership and Task Groups meetings which took place in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012.
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Issue 70, November 2012, event report
Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.
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Issue 70, November 2012, review
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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Issue 70, November 2012, review
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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Issue 70, November 2012, review
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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Issue 70, November 2012, review
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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Issue 70, November 2012, review
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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Issue 70, November 2012, review
Fiona MacLellan reviews a practical guide to mobile technology and its use in delivering library services.
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Issue 69, July 2012, tooled up
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.
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Issue 69, July 2012, feature article
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.
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Issue 69, July 2012, tooled up
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.
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Issue 69, July 2012, feature article
Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.
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Issue 69, July 2012, review
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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Issue 69, July 2012, review
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer.
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Issue 69, July 2012, review
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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Issue 69, July 2012, review
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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Issue 69, July 2012, review
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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Issue 69, July 2012, review
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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Issue 69, July 2012, event report
Rosemary Russell reports on a two-day workshop on research information management and CERIF held in Bristol over 27-28 June 2012.
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Issue 69, July 2012, review
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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Issue 68, March 2012, feature article
Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems.
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Issue 68, March 2012, review
While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition.
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Issue 68, March 2012, review
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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Issue 68, March 2012, review
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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Issue 68, March 2012, review
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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Issue 68, March 2012, review
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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Issue 68, March 2012, review
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on a wide range of current topics and challenges in information retrieval.
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Issue 67, July 2011, feature article
Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools.
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Issue 67, July 2011, feature article
Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.
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Issue 67, July 2011, event report
Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011.
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