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The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is a leading international association of library organisations. It is a global voice of the library and information profession, and its annual conference provides a venue for librarians to learn from one another. The IFLA forum promotes international cooperation, research and development in all fields related to library activities. The current president of IFLA is Ingrid Parent. A very important and close partner of the IFLA is UNESCO. Several of the manifestos prepared by committees of the IFLA have been recognized as UNESCO manifestos. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: IFLA)
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A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works |
Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation |
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
A Speaking Electronic Librarian |
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning |
During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Book Review: Managing Digital Rights - A Practitioner's Guide |
Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it. |
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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 |
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 |
Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library |
Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, Dave Price. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving |
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access? |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. |
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme |
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. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
FRBR in Practice |
Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society |
Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008 |
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia |
Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People |
Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors |
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Making a MARC With Dublin Core |
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records. |
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Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa |
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Metadata for the Masses |
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. |
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Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways |
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number |
Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers. |
June 2000, issue24, regular column |
NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau |
Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2005, issue45, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2009, issue60, news and events |
Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia |
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa |
Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet |
In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
RDA: A New International Standard |
Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
RDA: Resource Description and Access |
Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication |
Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative |
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning |
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. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure |
Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. |
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Review: The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services |
Book review by Bruce Royan. |
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Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization |
Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press. |
