Overview of content related to 'research'

Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries

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Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change in academic libraries.

Theses Unbound

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Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.

Is the age of the printed thesis doomed? The University Thesis On-line Group (UTOG) has recently completed a survey, funded by the British Library and JISC, on the use of doctoral theses in UK universities [1]. The survey forms the first phase of UTOG's work of addressing the problems and opportunities presented by making theses available electronically.

SKIP: Skills for new Information Professionals

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Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS.
This article is an extended version of that which appears in the print edition of Ariadne.

The SKIP project (SKills for new Information Professionals) [1] is drawing to a close. Based within Academic Services at the University of Plymouth, SKIP received JISC funding for one year within the Training and Awareness strand of the eLib Programme. The project team comprises Ivan Sidgreaves, Dean of Academic Services, Project Director, and Penny Garrod, Researcher. A Project Advisory Group has been set up to evaluate and advise SKIP, and is currently looking at effective ways of disseminating the research findings.

Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT)

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Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography.

York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet

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Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

Copyright Corner

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Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

Down Your Way: Queen's University Library

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Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast.

Sunday 6 July, the Royal Ulster Constabulary was under attack on the Lower Ormeau Road, Belfast. The following day, less than a mile away, the RUC band was playing at the Graduation Garden Party at The Queen's University of Belfast. The contrast between the conservation area of the Victorian university and the squat red-brick terraces of the Lower Ormeau Road could not be greater, yet they are both typical, in their own way, of life in the province.

Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same

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Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project.

The Librarian of Babel: for a Public Reading Right

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The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right.

Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries

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Rachel Heery examines metadata issues.

To-day's information user may well have access to a range of resources, and these resources will be described in more diverse resource description formats than traditional MARC. During the search process a user will encounter systems based on several different resource description formats, for example, their local OPAC, an internet subject gateway, an electronic text archive, each of which will manipulate a different variety of metadata.

Minotaur

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Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball.

Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS

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Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG.

Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative

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Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.

Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

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Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

Conference Goes One Step Beyond

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John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library.

Digital Libraries '97

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David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

The ACM conference on Digital Libraries is, despite its short life, the premier conference for the field. This year the computer scientists, librarians and all those in-between travelled to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania for ACM Digital Libraries '97 [1]. The conference, from 23-26 July, took place in the Doubletree Hotel [2] in downtown Philly and was co-located with the more technical SIGIR '97 [3].

SIGIR '97

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David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

SIGIR is a well established technical conference and a little daunting for those hangers-on from Digital Libraries '97 who did not have a background in information retrieval. It was good, therefore, that the opening Salton Award lecture by Tefko Saracevic of Rutgers University made us feel at home with a talk entitled Users Lost. He described the history of the field and, what he felt, was a split in the early 80s between the technical algorithm-based side and the user-oriented side.

BULISC '97

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John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2.

Libtech '97

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Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire.