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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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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2002, issue32, news and events |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Collection-level Description: Thinking Globally before Acting Locally |
Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
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 |
ISBN-13: New Number on the Block |
Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace |
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report |
Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability |
Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century |
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories |
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre |
Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2005, issue42, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. |
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National Library Goes Local |
Stephanie Kenna and Sue Cook tell the story behind the British Library's online training package for public library staff. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Digital Preservation: Best Practice and Its Dissemination |
Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use in training and professional practice. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Waking Up in the British Library |
Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |