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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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Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down? |
Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections |
Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Digital Libraries in China |
Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002. |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
Digital Libraries '97 |
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here? |
Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
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 |
Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade |
Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
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. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives |
Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project |
Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers |
Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning |
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
DC 2005 |
Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
DataCite UK User Group Meeting |
Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres |
Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
CURATEcamp iPres 2012 |
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
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 |
Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue |
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC. |
March 1997, issue8, 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Clumps Come Up Trumps |
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
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 |
Clifford Lynch in Interview |
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference |
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times' |
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection |
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
CEDARS |
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
Catalogues for the 21st Century |
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March |
March 2000, issue23, event report |
C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians |
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. |
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British Library Corner: Text and the Internet |
Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process? |
Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines |
Seamus Ross provides the programme for a symposium which seeks to explore how information technology has affected research in the humanities and social sciences. |
September 1996, issue5, news and events |
Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century |
Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000. |
June 2000, issue24, event report |
Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland |
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000. |