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Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) support United Kingdom post-16 and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: JISC)
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Architects of the Information Age |
Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come? |
Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Are Print Journals Dinosaurs? |
Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
Are They Being Served? |
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Assessing the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the FE and HE Sectors |
Steve Bailey describes how the FE and HE sectors have prepared for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and what challenges still lay ahead. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop |
Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
Best eLib Project Web Pages |
In the spring, we held a competition for those eLib projects that had, to date, produced and mounted their own set of Web pages. Here, we announce the winner... |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library |
Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
BIDS Begets Ingenta |
The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
BIOME News |
Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway. |
September 2000, issue25, regular column |
BIOME News |
Paula Manning with a brief report on the official launch of BIOME at the Royal Society on the 2nd of November 2000. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
BIOME: Incorporating the OMNI Service |
Lisa Gray reports on recent developments with the BIOME hub. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics |
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls |
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. |
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Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection |
Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners. |
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Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites |
Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content. |
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Book Review: Developing Academic Library Staff for Future Success |
Stephen Town considers this new multi-author volume, appreciates its many qualities and reflects on the key issues for library staff development in the digital future. |
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Book Review: Developing the New Learning Environment |
Stephen Town welcomes this new text on a key issue for the future of academic librarians, and suggests some broader questions for consideration. |
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Book Review: Digital Copyright |
Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property. |
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Book Review: Digital Preservation |
Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series. |
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Book Review: E-learning and Disability in Higher Education |
Simon Ball reviews a comprehensive discussion of e-learning and accessibility that gives support and guidance to effect good practice from individual to institutional level. |
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Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals |
Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals. |
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Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing |
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals. |
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Book Review: How to Find Information |
Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition. |
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Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal? |
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’. |
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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 - Designing Information Environments for Purpose |
John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole. |
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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 Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation |
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching. |
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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: 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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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 Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library |
Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library. |
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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: Preparing Collections for Digitization |
Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation. |
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Book Review: The Art of Community - Building the New Age of Participation |
Ed Bremner reviews a work on building and supporting online communities. |
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Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland |
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000. |
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Book Review: The E-copyright Handbook |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting. |
