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The British Library is the library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books (second only to the USA's Library of Congress), along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: British Library)
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Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service |
Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference |
Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh |
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment |
Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
What's in SOSIG for Further Education? |
Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future |
Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution |
Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004. |
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Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries |
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003 |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2003, issue37, news and events |
MIMAS Ten Years on |
Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2003, issue36, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage |
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. |
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Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment |
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape |
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003. |
April 2003, issue35, event report |
Review: Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers? |
Penny Garrod reviews a book on libraries published by Office for Humanities Communication Publications. |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2003, issue35, news and events |
Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century |
Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Public Libraries: United We Stand |
Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world. |
October 2002, issue33, regular column |
Digital Libraries in China |
Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002. |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential |
Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
Collection Description in Focus |
Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002 |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK |
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Planet SOSIG |
Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project. |
July 2002, issue32, regular column |
Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records |
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2002, issue32, news and events |
The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme |
Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel |
Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy? |
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network |
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar |
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London. |
January 2002, issue30, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29. |
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Architects of the Information Age |
Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions |
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Establishing a Digital Library Centre |
John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus |
Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
