- Smaller Might Be Beautiful
- Web 2.0: Building the New Library
- Paul Miller explores some of the recent
buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries
and related organisations.
- Putting the Library into the Institution: Using JSR 168
and WSRP to Enable Search within Portal Frameworks
- Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon
Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter
and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical
development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation
Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools
within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards.
- Looking for More than Text?
- Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give
an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services
and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still
images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use,
focusing particularly on JISC developments.
- Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The
User Perspective
- Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore
how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content,
and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches
to repository development.
- A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment
for Dutch Institutional Repositories
- Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil
describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated
a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent
scholars across the Netherlands.
- DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow ePrints Service
- Morag Greig and William Nixon describe
the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints
Service.
- Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly
Communication
- Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars
in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly
communication.
- Planet-SOSIG
- Flora Watson introduces a new podcasting service from Biz/ed and Angela Joyce
reports on the latest developments in the Eurostudies section of SOSIG.
- News from BIOME
- Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health
and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network .
- Search Engines
- Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines.
- Improving DSpace@OSU with a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process
- Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting
a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State
University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process.
- Web Focus: Must Email Die?
- Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the
Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands
on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear.
- Distributed Services Registry Workshop
- John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at
Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005.
- DC 2005
- Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference
on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at
the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005.
- Digital Curation: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005.
- Building the Info Grid
- Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica
Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid
on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held
in Copenhagen in September.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources:a how-to-do-it
manual for librarians
- Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources
into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue
of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed.
- Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services
- Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text
in the acquisitions field.
- Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 38, 2004
- Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.
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