- Forces in Train
- ISBN-13: New Number on the Block
- Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard
and its impact on the information community and the book trade.
- The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace
- Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin
for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality
for DSpace.
- Improving Communications within JISC through News Aggregation
- Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications
through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and
Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed
in this area.
- Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project
- Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon
Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin
describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE)
Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how
users wish to use library search services.
- The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience
- Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen
describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI
repositories of Dutch academic output.
- What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning
Object Metadata Standard?
- Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata
elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe
e-learning resources.
- How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian
Digital Libraries
- Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent
standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections
and host federated search services and provide an improved service.
- Planet-SOSIG
- Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent
European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place
introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the
social sciences.
- EEVL News: EEVL Update
- Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at
some recent developments to the EEVL service.
- News from BIOME
- Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on
recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery
Network.
- Search Engines: New and Developing Search Engines
- Phil Bradley looks at some existing search engines and
also some new ones to bring you up to date on what is happening in the world
of Internet search engines.
- Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings
- Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing
tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of
geographically distributed researchers.
- Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished – Let’s Start Embedding
QA
- Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and
argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles.
- ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian’s Report
- Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research
and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath
in September 2004.
- ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving
Workshop, September 2004
- Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving
Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004.
- The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004
- Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management
Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this
year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation.
- The JIBS Workshop on Resource/Reading List Software
- The Reality
- Frances Boyle reports on the one-day workshop on the current
state of play in the Resource/Reading List software market, held at the Saïd
Business School, University of Oxford, on 9 September 2004.
- e-Culture Horizons: From Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences
- Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted
and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September
2004.
- Digital Resources for the Humanities
- Alastair Dunning reviews for us this year's conference
on Digital Resources in the Humanities held at the University of Newcastle
over 5-8 September 2004.
- Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration
for Sustainability
- Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability
of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Libraries Without Walls 5
- 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.
- Knowledge Management Lessons Learned - What works and
what doesn't
- Martin White praises the work of the editors on the 32
essays covering how KM initiatives can deliver tangible outcomes and takes
a practical and balanced view of their overall value.
- Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital
Age
- Chris Awre finds a useful if limited introduction for those
coming new to the field of information representation and retrieval, but is
unconvinced by its overall coverage and depth.
- The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library
with Free Web Resources
- Lina Coelho looks at a book she feels is destined to repay
its purchase price even if you never manage to read it all.
- The Information Society: A study of continuity and
change
- Lise Foster finds this a useful scene setter for the novice
and valuable reminder for the professional of the challenges facing today’s
librarian.
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