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Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is a university in North West England. Its headquarters and central campus is in the city of Manchester, but there are outlying facilities in the county of Cheshire. It is the third largest university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers, behind the Open University and its neighbour Manchester University. It is a member of the University Alliance and is classed as a new university. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Manchester Metropolitan University)
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EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries) |
Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development |
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries. |
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Book Review: Being an Information Innovator |
John Paschoud reviews a book which formalises the processes of being what many of us would like to be within our information-based organisations - innovators and entrepreneurs of the Information Age. |
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Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls |
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. |
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JISC Digital Content Conference 2009 |
Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009 |
Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
Book Review: Reader Development in Practice |
Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches to the topic of reader development. |
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Book Review: Web Accessibility |
Martin White reviews a book that provides advice for managers on how to ensure that Web sites, intranets and library services are fully compliant with guidelines and legislation on accessibility. |
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Libraries of the Future |
Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project |
Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2007, issue50, news and events |
e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and Other VREs for the Social Sciences |
Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Intute: The New Best of the Web |
Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
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 |
Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool |
Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest Group Meeting |
Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal learning profiles. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century |
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5 |
David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners. |
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JISC Terminology Services Workshop |
Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
What's in Artifact for Further Education? |
Jayne Everard writes about the areas covered by the new subject service Artifact and takes us through the facilities on offer to FE practitioners. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 37, 2003 |
Colin Harris declares himself a veteran reader of the ARIST, assesses the kinds of reviewing it performs and balances the strengths and weaknesses of this long-standing publication. |
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Book Review: Joining Up the Dots |
Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society. |
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Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report |
Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage |
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. |
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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 |
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. |
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Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities. |
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Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, 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 |
Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points |
Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites. |
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The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme |
Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers |
Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers. |
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News from the Resource Discovery Network |
Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen with the latest on developments at the RDN. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People |
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001. |
January 2002, issue30, event report |
Establishing a Digital Library Centre |
John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Information Skills and the DNER: The INHALE Project |
Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
The LEODIS Database |
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site? |
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. |
