Ariadne Issue 52 | Contents

DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories: Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study.

ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository: David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF.

Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries: Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries.

The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates: Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback.

Repository Thrills and Spills: Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative.

Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors: Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work.

24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future: As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years.

Web Archiving at the British Library: Trials with the Web Curator Tool: Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool.

EThOSnet: Building a UK e-Theses Community: Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK.

Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University: Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community: Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop.

Repositories Support Project Summer School: Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team.

JASIG June 2007 Conference: Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007.

ALPSP Conference: Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007.

Digital Repositories: Dealing with the Digital Deluge: Pete Cliff gives an overall view of the multi-stranded JISC conference held in Manchester over 5-6 June 2007.

Blogging from the Backroom: Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007.

Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?: Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life.

Newsline: News and events
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: John MacColl reviews the first two volumes of this very substantial three-part work, covering the periods to 1640 and 1640-1850.
Change Management in Information Services: Ian Lovecy examines change theories and strategies, and their application to creating a change culture in an information service.
Managing Technical People: Lina Coelho expected a book that would challenge her technical knowledge and understanding but found a readable and useful guide for the time-pressed manager.