- When Technology Alone Is Not Enough
- Opening up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery
- Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy
Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee
demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata
autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments.
- Trust in Global Virtual Teams
- Niki Panteli identifies ways of developing trust within
global virtual teams.
- National Library Goes Local
- Stephanie Kenna and Sue Cook tell the story behind the British Library's online training package for public library staff.
- Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management
in Institutions
- Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme
tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further
Education in the UK.
- Digital Preservation: Best Practice and its Dissemination
- Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use
of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use
in training and professional practice.
- E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management
Software Tools
- Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in
terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how,
and functionalities.
- Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet
- Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer
the art of reading.
- "What Are Your Terms?"
- Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment
Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges
it is facing.
- Planet-SOSIG
- Paul Ayres examines how the SOSIG Subject News blog is keeping
users up to date and providing reusable site content at the same time.
- EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available
- Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to 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: Using the Right Search Engine
at the Right Time
- Phil Bradley takes a look at which search engines to use
depending on what you need to find..
- Installing Shibboleth
- Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation
in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience
more user-friendly.
- Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on
the Road
- Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now
expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies
which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office.
- EuroCAMP 2005
- Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on
the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted
by the Politecnico di Torino.
- Waking up in the British Library
- Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early
English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature.
- United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005
- Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group
(UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
- 10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest
Group Meeting
- Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among
other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal
learning profiles.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global
Environment
- Chris Awre welcomes a useful overview of the global digital
library scene that will help both those coming new to this area and those
wishing to broaden their appreciation of what is involved in developing a
digital library.
- Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
- Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata
for the information professional.
- Managing Digital Rights: A Practitioner's Guide
- Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that
information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it.
- Building an Electronic Resource Collection: A Practical
Guide
- Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this
practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy
the needs of both new and experienced practitioners.
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