Overview of content related to 'amazon'
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is the largest online retailer in the United States, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995.... Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Amazon)
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ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective |
Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes |
Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools. |
January 2008, issue54, 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 |
Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide |
Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples. |
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Book Review: Digital Information - Order Or Anarchy? |
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a review of a work which examines the future of digital information and emerging patterns of scholarly communication. |
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Book Review: Implementing Technology in Libraries |
Elizabeth McHugh reviews a first published work that she feels is a straightforward, jargon-free guide on how to implement technology solutions in libraries. |
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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: iPad - The Missing Manual |
Brian Whalley reviews a manual to help support your use of an iPad - 'the book that should have been in the box'. |
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Book Review: M-Libraries |
Simon Speight reviews a collection of papers from the First International M-Libraries Conference, which examined potential library uses of mobile phones and other portable technology. |
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Book Review: Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services |
Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the acquisitions field. |
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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 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 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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Book Review: Visualizing Data |
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. |
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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 |
Case Studies in Web Sustainability |
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable. |
November 2012, issue70, 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 |
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 |
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 |
E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing? |
Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
e-Framework Implements New Workplan |
Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 70 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70. |
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Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal? |
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions. |
July 2012, issue69, event report |
EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want |
Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service. |
July 2004, issue40, regular column |
EEVL: Resident EEVL |
Roddy MacLeod provides an update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages. |
October 2002, issue33, regular column |
Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10) |
Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books |
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation |
Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Google Challenges for Academic Libraries |
John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century |
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. |
January 2005, issue42, 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 |
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference |
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010 |
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
