- Ten Years of Pathfinding
- John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John
Kirriemuir reflect on the rationale and history of the founding of
Ariadne .
- Projects into Services: The UK Experience
- Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic
sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.
- What Users Want: An Academic ‘Hybrid’ Library Perspective
- Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred
approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the
hybrid library.
- The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After
- Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.
- Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice
- Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop
over the next ten years.
- Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects
- Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the
Atlantic.
- Google Challenges for Academic Libraries
- John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries
may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines
a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments.
- Excuse Me … Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?
- Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions
behind digital preservation thinking.
- Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3
- Patrick Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to
aid in accessibility testing of Web pages.
- C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture
Series
- Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on
the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in
the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College
London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006.
- Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining
the Research Agenda for the Next Decade
- Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick
University over 7-8 November 2005.
- JISC and SURF international workshop on electronic
theses
- Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event
at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January
2006.
- Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites
- Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing
Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome
Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006.
- Newsline: News and events
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- The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological
Information Systems
- Charles Oppenheim takes a look at this series of personal
and researched historical analyses of the history of computerised information
retrieval systems, and finds it makes fascinating reading if you are interested
in such things.
- ARIST 39 : Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
- Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual
publication on information science and technology.
- Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
- Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays
and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital
culture by placing digital technology in an historical context.
- Managing Electronic Records
- Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging
collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management.
- E-metrics for Library and Information Professionals
- Elizabeth McHugh learns about the importance of locally
produced e-metrics and how they could be produced using available technologies.
- Delivering Digital Services: A handbook for public
libraries and learning centres
- Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds
a golden egg among the goose droppings.
- Developing the New Learning Environment: The changing
role of the academic librarian
- Stephen Town welcomes this new text on a key issue for
the future of academic librarians, and suggests some broader questions for
consideration.
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