Monocultures Threaten More Than Species
Unicode and Historic Scripts
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress
made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.
Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online
by Academic Staff
Theo Andrew supplies a case study from the University
of Edinburgh.
Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available
Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides.
Delivering OAI Records as RSS: An IMesh Toolkit module
for facilitating resource sharing
Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of
providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module.
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where are we now?
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in
ebooks.
Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering
Using Automatic Classification
Kjell Jansson,Jessica Lindholm and
Tomas Schönthal describe the work in setting up a Web
index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection
of resources.
Towards a Typology for Portals
Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call
portals, and argues for better words to describe them.
DAEDALUS: Initial experiences with EPrints and DSpace
at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS
initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the
decision to employ both.
Public Libraries
Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library
Authorities Conference 2003
Planet SOSIG
Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send
further news from the planet of social sciences.
EEVL News
Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to
work.
News from BIOME
Donald Mackay reports on recent work with LTSN
Subject Centres.
Search Engines
Phil Bradley looks at newly emerging search-engines
and even boasts a stop press.
Web Focus
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post
and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit.
ECDL-2003
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference
on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web
Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003.
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open
Archives Forum Workshop.
Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World
Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference,
held in Seattle, Washington.
OpenURL Meeting
Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle
and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL
Meeting held in London, September 2003.
Crime and Punishment
Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking
to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and
abuse.
Newsline: News and events.
Joining Up the Dots
Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices
provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society.
The Accidental Systems Librarian
Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of
another book in the 'Accidental' series .
Implementing Digital Reference Services
Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the
Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference.
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