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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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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2010, issue62, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2010, issue63, news and events |
NewsAgent for Librarians |
Mark Kerr, research assistant on the NewsAgent for Libraries Project, describes a project to build a news and current awareness service for the LIS community. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Newsline |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2007, issue53, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 1998, issue13, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
March 1998, issue14, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
June 2000, issue24, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
June 2001, issue28, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2002, issue32, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2003, issue36, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2003, issue37, news and events |
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 |
Old Ghosts Rear Their Heads |
Peter Brophy calls for effective use of email. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia |
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
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. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Planet SOSIG |
Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Planet SOSIG |
Heather Dawson with news of the recently merged Social Science Librarians Group. |
June 2000, issue24, regular column |
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 |
Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences |
Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite. |
September 2000, issue25, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: Politically Correct - Editing the Politics Section of SOSIG |
Heather Dawson from The British Library of Political and Economic Science talks about her role as a SOSIG Section Editor. |
January 1998, issue13, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest |
Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics? |
Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System |
Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system. |
June 1999, issue20, feature article |
Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility |
Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Preserving Oral History Recordings |
Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges |
Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
Projects Into Services: The UK Experience |
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003 |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner |
Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: An Internet Open Day |
Sally Criddle describes a World Wide Web training event organised by UKOLN and the University of Bath for the 1997 National Libraries Week. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: Life After the Millenium Bid |
After the recent disappointing turn-down of the millenium bid to connect public libraries to the Internet, Sarah Ormes wonders where we go from here. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures |
Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song |
Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: Stories from the Web |
Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
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 |
Public Libraries: United We Stand |
Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world. |
October 2002, issue33, regular column |
Public Library 2.0: Culture Change? |
Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries' growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
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). |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
