Organisation - American Library Association
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Book Review: Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
Fiona MacLellan reviews the third edition of Peggy Johnson’s text focusing on a key area for libraries: collection development.
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Book Review: Crisis Information Management
Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics.
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Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work, now in its sixth edition, which examines the information society, its origin, development, its associated issues and the current landscape.
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Book Review: The New Digital Scholar - Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students
Julia Robinson reviews a substantial and timely collection of essays related to the research and writing practices of NextGen students. Expressing a call for change in the way educators approach Information Literacy teaching, this book invites the reader to redefine, re-evaluate and reflect on what we think we know about students’ research practices today.
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Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals.
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Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Project Launch Conference
Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011.
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RDA: Resource Description and Access
Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010. -
Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. -
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Book Review: Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up? -
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. -
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. -
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. -
Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications. -
New Search Engines in 2006
Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments. -
What Happens When We Mash the Library?
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. -
RDA: A New International Standard
Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). -
Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico
Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. -
A Librarian's Experience of E-Government
Jane Inman describes the route she has taken as a librarian through the expanding landscape of e-government and highlights the skills librarians can bring to this arena. -
Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. -
Public Libraries: I Just Got Back from the Windy City..
Sarah Ormes reports on the recent American Library Association conference held in Chicago. -
ALA '98
Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17
The web editors, Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly, introduce Ariadne issue 17. -
Minotaur: Widening Access
Lyndon Pugh argues that there must be much more to widening access than changing rules and regulations. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Library Association Web Site
Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site. -
A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site
A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World. -
Public Libraries, Public Support? the Mission Behind Buildings, Books and Bytes
Laura Weiss outlines a major American survey that looked at the disparity between key librarians views of the future, and what the public who used those libraries really wanted. -
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet
In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year.