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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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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 |
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 |
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia |
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Turning Off Tap Into Bath |
Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility? |
Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA) |
Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library). |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries |
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching |
Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project |
Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
VERITY |
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. |
September 1998, issue17, project update |
Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way |
Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
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 |
We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital) |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54. |
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Web Curator Tool |
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges |
Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project. |
November 1997, issue12, 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 |
WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project |
Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project. |
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What Do National Libraries Do in the Age of the Internet? |
Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries. |
January 1998, issue13, feature article |
What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub |
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us? |
Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective |
Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. |
February 2006, issue46, 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 |
Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme |
Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Why Give It Away? |
David Haynes, Elizabeth Lyon and David Streatfield explore the mysteries of devolved budgeting. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet |
Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources. |
