- Extended Family Net Works
- Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise
- Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library
systems is altering their service model.
- Intute: The New Best of the Web
- Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the
online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.
- Introducing unAPI
- Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a
tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.
- The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment:
Some Thoughts
- Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will
develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.
- UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go From Here
- Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline
the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs
Assessment and the Mind the Gap report.
- Accoona: Super-Charged Super Target Searching
- Phil Bradley puts a relative newcomer through its paces
and finds some very useful features together with potential for improvement.
- The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years On
- Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the
Arts and Humanities Data Service.
- ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith
- Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution
Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit
from its findings.
- A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation
- Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and
José Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture
to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.
- IWMW 2006: Quality Matters
- Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web
Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.
- C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series
- Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on
the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held
at University College London over April and May 2006.
- Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term
Preservation
- Dave Thompson reports on a two-day conference on Email
Curation organised by the Digital Curation Centre.
- JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006
- Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the
JISC/CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'.
- Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on
Web Archiving
- Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report
on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took
place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.
- Fedora Users Conference
- Chris Awre and Richard Green report from
the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source
Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,
Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006.
- CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond
the Hanseatic League
- Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on
this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Blended Learning and Online Tutoring. A good practice
guide.
- Lyn Parker considers that this book meets its aim of providing practical advice for tutors and staff developers engaged in online activities and blended learning.
- Managing Change
- Donald Maclean reviews a text that lays down guidelines
for information managers attempting to analyse, implement and evaluate change
within their organisation.
- Evaluating the Impact of your Library
- David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers,
which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact
Evaluation methodology.
- The Librarians Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition
- Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne,
Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort.
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