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Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, usually using a scientific method. The primary purpose for basic research (as opposed to applied research) is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Research)
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BULISC '97 |
John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
Caching In? |
George Neisser describes the National JANET Web Caching Service. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage? |
Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University |
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Case Studies in Web Sustainability |
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Cashing in on Caching |
Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it. |
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Catalogues for the 21st Century |
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March |
March 2000, issue23, event report |
Catriona II |
Mary Fletcher introduces a new seeker after Web resources. CATRIONA II is a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the programme. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
CATRIONA II Management Survey |
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
CAUSE / EFFECT |
Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. |
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Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian |
Michael Kennedy discusses the value of Archives 2.0 to the online version of Ireland's 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' series. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
CEDARS |
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection |
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries |
Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change in academic libraries. |
September 1997, issue11, feature article |
Change Management in Information Services |
Ian Lovecy examines change theories and strategies, and their application to creating a change culture in an information service. |
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Changing the Lightbulb – Er, the Culture: How Many eLib Projects Does It Take to Change the Higher Education Culture? |
Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss what it takes to change Higher Education culture. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles |
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. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Checkout Reviews |
Summary of reviews available from this and other issues of Ariadne. |
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CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times' |
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference |
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
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 |
CLIC: An Electronic Chemistry Journal |
CLIC is a project from the Electronic Journals area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. Henry Rzepa, from the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, explains the need for journals in the field of Chemistry that use leading edge technology for molecular information storage, retrieval and manipulation. |
January 1996, issue1, project update |
Clifford Lynch in Interview |
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
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 |
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 |
Collaborations Workshop 2012: Software, Sharing and Collaboration in Oxford |
Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012. |
April 2012, issue68, event report |
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks |
Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library |
Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context |
Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape |
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003. |
April 2003, issue35, event report |
Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel |
Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Collection Description in Focus |
Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002 |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Collection-level Description: Thinking Globally before Acting Locally |
Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus |
Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |