Ariadne Issue 55 | Contents

Custom-built Search Engines: Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines.

Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008: Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata.

South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides: Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.

Towards an Application Profile for Images: Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC.

Developing the Capability and Skills to Support eResearch: Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

Intute Integration: Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia: Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia’s experience of implementing Ex Libris’s Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative: John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.

Digital Lives: Report of Interviews with the Creators of Personal Digital Collections: Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library.

KIM Project Conference 2008: Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008: Siobhán Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND.

The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008: Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond.

VIF: Version Identification Workshop: Sarah Molloy reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008.

Libraries of the Future: Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008.

Newsline: News and events
The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times.: Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times.
Digital Information Culture: The Individual and Society in the Digital Age: Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies.
Information and Emotion: Stephanie Taylor finds in Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory new ways to understand the emotions of users in a collection of work from the US information behaviour community.
Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements.
Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management: Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects.