Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> April 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/category/authors/simon-choppin">simon choppin</a> 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. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/15041/author-info">mansur darlington</a> 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. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/1088/author-info">david fuegi</a>, <a href="/category/authors/monika-elbert-0">monika elbert</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/14774/author-info">ugne lipeikaite</a> Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/1124/author-info">marie-therese gramstadt</a> Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems.&nbsp; <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/761/author-info">chris awre</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/892/author-info">richard green</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/14861/author-info">simon waddington</a> 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. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/category/authors/alan-hopkinson">alan hopkinson</a>, <a href="/category/authors/tigran-zargaryan">tigran zargaryan</a> Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/1070/author-info">graham seaman</a> The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/editorial">editorial</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/15037/author-info">matthew brack</a> Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/732/author-info">marieke guy</a> Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/973/author-info">sylvie lafortune</a> While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/809/author-info">emma tonkin</a> Sylvie Lafortune reports on the 37th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), held over 30 May – 3 June 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/973/author-info">sylvie lafortune</a> Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/category/authors/ute-rusnak">ute rusnak</a>