- Horses for Courses
- Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing
- Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer
Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee
describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse
information resources and distributed personal collection development.
- Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements
- Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression
languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may
differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.
- An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)
- Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols
designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as
the structure of the responses.
- Collection-level Description: Thinking globally before
acting locally
- Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write
on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap
into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry.
- Tap Into Bath
- Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the
development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath.
- Cornucopia
- Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development
and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.
- The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting
the use of electronic resources
- Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment
Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers
and portal developers.
- Targeting Academic Research with Southampton's Institutional
Repository
- Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the
evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton
Research Repository.
- Public Libraries: Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries?
- Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities
in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public
library users.
- Planet-SOSIG
- This month Neil Jacobs introduces a new book for information
professionals in the social sciences and Heta Virnes describes
her experience of running virtual helpdesks for SOSIG.
- EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want
- Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire
which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service.
- News from BIOME
- Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health
and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.
- Search Engines: A Mixed Bag: A review of some
new search engines
- Phil Bradley takes a look at some new search engines to
see if they are up to challenging the top dogs.
- WebWatch: Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability
- Dey Alexander and Derek Brown demonstrate
how the layout of a Web page has a direct influence upon users' capacity and
willingness to engage with a Web site.
- Web Focus: The Web on your TV
- Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides
Web and email access in your living room.
- PALS Conference: Institutional repositories and
their impact on publishing
- Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning
Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.
- World Wide Web Conference 2004
- Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference
held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.
- Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference
- Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference
of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University
of Bath, 30 June - 2 July.
- Support Models for Open Source Deployment
- Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report
on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June
2004.
- Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure:
The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh.
- John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first
general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National
E-Science Centre.
- Erpanet Persistent Identifiers Seminar
- Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent
identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Information Architecture: Designing information
environments for purpose
- John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and
finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole.
- Managing your Internet & Intranet Services : the
information professional's guide to strategy
- David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but
finds unfortunate omissions as well as beneficial inclusions.
- Staying Legal
- Stuart Hannabuss examines an interesting collection of
essays and, with reservations, likes the second edition a lot more.
- Developing Web-based Instruction
- Lyn Parker finds this compilation a useful overview of
the issues involved in developing e-learning and a valuable addition to the
literature.
- Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet
- Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing
librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values.
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