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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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Article summary | Date |
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The Future Is Hybrid: London |
Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh |
John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh. |
March 2001, issue27, event report |
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 |
The Digital Library and Its Services |
Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
The British Library's Digital Libraries Programme |
Lyndon Pugh meets with Sue Howley to discuss the British Library's digital research programme. |
January 1998, issue13, feature article |
The British Libraries Private Finance Initiative |
The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne an exclusive on its Private Finance Initiative. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
The BNBMARC Currency Survey |
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, 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 |
So What Is So Exciting about LAMDA? |
Frederick Friend explains about electronic document delivery in London and Manchester. |
March 1998, issue14, project update |
SIGIR '97 |
David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research |
Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Serving the Arts and Humanities |
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network |
Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers. |
March 1996, issue2, project update |
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 |
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project |
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. |
March 1999, issue19, feature article |
Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap |
Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services |
Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure |
Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. |
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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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Revealing All |
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers |
Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE |
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Public Libraries: United We Stand |
Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world. |
October 2002, issue33, 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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 |
Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does. |
December 1998, issue18, 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 |
Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
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 |
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 |
