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An Online Public Access Catalog (often abbreviated as OPAC or simply Library Catalog) is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Users search a library catalog principally to locate books and other material physically located at a library. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: OPAC)
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 69 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69. |
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Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath |
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals. |
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The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle |
Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System |
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
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Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning |
Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment |
Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP). |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010 |
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
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 |
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 |
Book Review: Library Mashups |
Aldalin Lyngdoh reviews a book on the basics of mashups and how they have been used in libraries worldwide. |
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Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London |
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol |
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation |
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service |
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Introducing UnAPI |
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts |
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Code4lib 2006 |
Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
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 |
The JIBS Workshop on Resource/Reading List Software - the Reality |
Frances Boyle reports on the one-day workshop on the current state of play in the Resource/Reading List software market, held at the SaÔd Business School, University of Oxford, on 9 September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
What Features in a Portal? |
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH |
David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Student Searching Behaviour in the JISC Information Environment |
Jill R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy report on work in progress and air some initial findings on the EDNER project, which undertakes evaluation of the developing JISC Information Environment. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
A Speaking Electronic Librarian |
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Portals, Portals Everywhere |
Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms. |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
Another Piece of Cake? |
Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution? |
Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions |
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver |
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies |
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
Clumps Come Up Trumps |
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book |
Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Public Libraries: I Just Got Back from the Windy City.. |
Sarah Ormes reports on the recent American Library Association conference held in Chicago. |
September 2000, issue25, regular column |
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 |
Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library |
Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century |
Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000. |
June 2000, issue24, event report |
So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue? |
Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
Clumps As Catalogues |
Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?' |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |