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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Issue 67, July 2011, event report
Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.
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Issue 67, July 2011, review
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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Issue 67, July 2011, review
Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation.
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Issue 67, July 2011, review
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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Issue 66, January 2011, feature article
Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example.
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Issue 66, January 2011, feature article
Richard Collmann describes how experience using a portable Virtual 3D Object Rig in cultural institutions has led to significant improvements in apparatus design and workflow.
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Issue 66, January 2011, feature article
Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard.
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Issue 66, January 2011, feature article
Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK.
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Issue 66, January 2011, feature article
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service.
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Issue 66, January 2011, event report
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago.
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Issue 66, January 2011, event report
Tore Hoel reports on the CETIS 2010 Conference, 15 - 16 November 2010 at the National College for Leadership of Schools and Childrens' Services Conference Centre, Nottingham.
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Issue 66, January 2011, event report
Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011.
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Issue 66, January 2011, review
Katrina Clifford reviews a work covering the long-heralded change in the cataloguing rule set - RDA (Resource Description and Access).
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Issue 66, January 2011, review
Lina Coelho takes a look at Scott Berkun's challenging view of what innovation and creativity really mean.
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Issue 66, January 2011, review
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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