Overview of content related to 'national library'
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A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: National library)
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Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving |
Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy? |
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Down Under With the Dublin Core |
Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
Down Your Very Long Way Away |
We take a look at the library and networking facilities in more remote places around the world; in this issue, we feature the Faroe Islands. |
March 1996, issue2, regular column |
E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content |
Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
e-Culture Horizons: from Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences |
Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
ECDL-2003 Conference Notes |
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving |
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004 |
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. |
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EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips |
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. |
July 2005, issue44, regular column |
ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon |
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers |
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies? |
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage |
Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet |
Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
FRBR in Practice |
Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society |
Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA) |
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008 |
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries |
Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
Hybrid Libraries |
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library |
Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol |
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. |
July 1998, issue16, project update |
IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation |
Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
IMPACT Final Conference 2011 |
Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective |
Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People |
Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Interface: Dennis Nicholson |
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
International Digital Curation Conference 2010 |
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
iPRES 2008 |
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
JEDDS: Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software Project |
Kerry Blinco provides details of a global electronic document delivery project. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses |
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites |
Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century |
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference |
June 2000, issue24, event report |
Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise |
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Metadata Corner |
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
