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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Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update |
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research |
Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services. |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
Metadata: Preservation 2000 |
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg |
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine |
Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework |
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework. |
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Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm |
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
National Library Goes Local |
Stephanie Kenna and Sue Cook tell the story behind the British Library's online training package for public library staff. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau |
Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
News and Events |
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April 2003, issue35, news and events |
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April 2010, issue63, news and events |
Newsline |
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October 2007, issue53, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
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October 2002, issue33, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
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October 2003, issue37, news and events |
NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web |
Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
Of Arms and the Man We Sing |
John MacColl talks to Chris Rusbridge about the eLib programme. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human |
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. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information |
Frank Norman, project co-ordinator, describes OMNI, what it can do for you (and you for it). OMNI is an eLib project from the Access to Network Resources programme area. It consists of a well-maintained and expanding database of medical and health resources that can be accessed through JANET/Internet. This database can be searched, via a World Wide Web browser; in addition, catalogues of the resources are available for browsing. |
January 1996, issue1, project update |
Open Repositories 2008 |
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Open Repositories 2009 |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
Participate in Your Future: The IST2004 Event |
Gabriella Szabo reports on a three-day event addressing European policies, strategies and research activities in all areas of the Information Society held in The Hague. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia |
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa |
Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options |
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet |
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. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians |
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. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Planning the Future of the National Library of Mongolia |
Monika Segbert-Elbert and David Fuegi describe the National Library of Mongolia's plans to modernise its infrastructure and services. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
