- The Loneliness of the Long-distance Worker
- e-Framework Implements New Workplan
- Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe
recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education
and Research.
- The REMAP Project: Steps towards a Repository-enabled
Information Environment
- Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate
what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management
and preservation of its own digital content.
- A Support Framework for Remote Workers
- Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for
Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent
support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.
- Encouraging More Open Educational Resources with Southampton’s
EdShare
- Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar
Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching
materials within and beyond the institution.
- To VRE or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria
Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?
- Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer
identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria
researchers in South Africa.
- EThOS: From Project to Service
- Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses
Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.
- Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments
in the IEMSR
- Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect
on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment
Metadata Schema Registry.
- Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure
of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe
- Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and
Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results
from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research
output in the European Union.
- Publish and Cherish with Non-proprietary Peer Review
Systems
- Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders
to extend OA publishing conditions by stimulating the market.
- The Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference
(LILAC) 2009
- Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information
Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University
over 30 March – 1 April 2009.
- IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation
- Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna
Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor
Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.
- From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building
Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society
- Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting,
held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin
over 19-20 February 2009.
- Handshake Session at International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam
- Adrian Stevenson highlights the Handshake Session which
formed part of the International Repositories InfrastructureWorkshop, at the
Radisson SAS Hotel, Amsterdam, held over 16-17 March 2009.
- NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability
- Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana University, on 26-27 March 2009.
- Newsline: News and events
- Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and
Authenticity
- Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of
modern institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both challenging
and thought-provoking.
- Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries:
Issues and Practices
- Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following
question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up?
- Reader Development in Practice: bringing literature
to readers
- Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches
to the topic of reader development.
- Sketching Tomorrow
- Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship
of modern society to information and communication technologies and observes
more sins of omission than commission.
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