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A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Blog)
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Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services |
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. |
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Book Review: Information 2.0 |
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption. |
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Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web |
Keith Doyle reviews the 3rd edition of the primary reference book for practising in-house staff and consultants responsible for the development of institutional information architecture. |
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Book Review: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0 |
Emma Delaney considers the effects of Web 2.0 on delivering information literacy to library students and end-users. |
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Book Review: Information Science in Transition |
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. |
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Book Review: Information Tomorrow |
Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries. |
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Book Review: Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies |
Brian Whalley looks at a student survival aid in the information age that should also be valuable for tutors. |
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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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Book Review: Listen Up! Podcasting for Schools and Libraries |
Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential to take library services and activities to new audiences. |
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Book Review: Managing Research Data |
Sally Rumsey reviews a book which describes and explains the topics of interest central to practitioners involved with research data management. |
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Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World |
Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century. |
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Book Review: Managing Your Internet & Intranet Services |
David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but finds unfortunate omissions as well as beneficial inclusions. |
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Book Review: Mob Rule Learning |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer. |
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Book Review: Net Effects |
Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values. |
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Book Review: Presentation Zen - Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery |
Marieke Guy gets in touch with her inner PowerPoint Zen. |
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Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups |
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services. |
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Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence |
Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets. |
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Book Review: Teach Beyond Your Reach |
Lina Coelho looks at this Instructor's guide to developing and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more. |
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Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur |
Stephanie Taylor tries to curb her enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by investigating the dark side of social networking. |
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Book Review: The Embedded Librarian |
John Azzolini reviews a comprehensive overview of embedded librarianship, a new model of library service that promises to enhance the strategic value of contemporary knowledge work. |
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Book Review: The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping |
John Azzolini reviews an anthology of perceptive essays on the challenges presented to archival thought and practice by Web 2.0, postmodern perspectives, and cross-disciplinary interchanges. |
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Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition |
Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort. |
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Book Review: The Thriving Library |
Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times. |
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Book Review: The Web Library |
Lina Coelho looks at a book she feels is destined to repay its purchase price even if you never manage to read it all. |
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Case Studies in Web Sustainability |
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath |
Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Creating Websites for e-Citizens: the Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002 |
In the first of a series of articles, Penny Garrod takes us through some of the choices confronting UK public libraries, and begins by looking at the ramifications of the DCMS report "Framework for the future". |
April 2003, issue35, regular column |
CURATEcamp iPres 2012 |
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Custom-built Search Engines |
Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning |
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design |
Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days |
Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009. |
January 2009, issue58, event report |