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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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10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar |
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
A Free ISP from the British Library |
Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library. |
December 1999, issue22, 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 |
ACORN |
Paula Kingston outlines the ACORN project, which aims to develop a transferable model for the whole process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
ACORN Implemented |
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
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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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 |
An End User's View |
Oliver de Peyer with his personal view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical electronic issue desk. |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
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 |
Are Print Journals Dinosaurs? |
Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists. |
November 1997, issue12, 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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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 |
Cataloguing E-Journals: Where Are We Now? |
Valerie Wilkins reviews the results of a survey, showing a variety of current practices in cataloguing e-journals. |
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Cataloguing Electronic Sources |
Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham. |
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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 |
Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue? |
Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Clumps As Catalogues |
Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?' |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
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 |
CLUMPS in the Real World |
Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects. |
June 1999, issue20, 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 |
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 |
COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue |
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries. |
January 1998, issue13, regular column |
CURL OPAC launch |
Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
Cybercollege Scorecard: How Does Your University Score? |
Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Disabil-IT? Conference |
Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
Down Your Way |
Loughborough University has a reputation for technological excellence. Its Information Service was revamped last year, and is becoming increasingly dependent upon the Internet. Alison Kilgour reports. |
January 1996, issue1, regular column |
Down Your Way |
Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library. |
March 1996, issue2, regular column |
Down Your Way |
Alison Kilgour checks out the networking facilities in the Library of York University. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Down Your Way: Durham |
Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Down Your Way: Edge Hill University |
Alison Kilgour checks out the network facilities at Edge Hill College. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
Down Your Way: John Moores |
Isobel Stark visits one of the most prominent new university library buildings of recent years. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Down Your Way: Queen's University Library |
Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 69 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69. |
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Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes |
Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event. |
May 1997, issue9, event report |
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 |
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 the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring |
Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like. |
