Overview of content related to 'national library'

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.

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.

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.

Neal Chan describes Provenance, a Canadian-based Web magazine for Information Professionals.

Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records.

Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources.

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.

Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra.

Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway.

Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries.

David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility.

Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives.

Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.

Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.

Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.

Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March