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Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.

Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education.

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.

Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories.

Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector.

Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation.

Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation.

Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments.

Niki Panteli identifies ways of developing trust within global virtual teams.

Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective.

David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.

Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach.

Jonathan Foster examines the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals.