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Reviews in Ariadne evaluate books and events of interest to information professionals.
- Total number of 'review' items in all Ariadne issues: 185
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Book Review: Reader Development in Practice |
Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches to the topic of reader development. |
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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: 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: Principles of Data Management |
Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British Computer Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues and benefits of data management across an enterprise. |
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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: 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: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries |
Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software. |
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Book Review: Patent Failure - How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk |
Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key assumptions about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective. |
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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: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture |
Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism. |
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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: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval |
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. |
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Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture |
Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context. |
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Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition |
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. |
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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: Managing the Test People |
Lina Coelho expected a book that would challenge her technical knowledge and understanding but found a readable and useful guide for the time-pressed manager. |
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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 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 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 Electronic Records |
Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management. |
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Book Review: Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up? |
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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 Change |
Donald Maclean reviews a text that lays down guidelines for information managers attempting to analyse, implement and evaluate change within their organisation. |
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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: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management |
Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects. |
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Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It |
While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition. |
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Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice. |
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Book Review: Making Digital Cultures - Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity |
Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both challenging and thought-provoking. |
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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: 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: Library Mashups |
Aldalin Lyngdoh reviews a book on the basics of mashups and how they have been used in libraries worldwide. |
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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: Libraries Designed for Kids |
Sara Wingate Gray considers a practical guide to implementing design change in children's libraries and how to manage a consistent approach. |
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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: Knowledge Management Lessons Learned |
Martin White praises the work of the editors on the 32 essays covering how KM initiatives can deliver tangible outcomes and takes a practical and balanced view of their overall value. |
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Book Review: Joining Up the Dots |
Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society. |
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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: Introductory Concepts in Information Science |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed. |
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Book Review: Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval |
Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition but has reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject. |
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Book Review: Introducing RDA |
Katrina Clifford reviews a work covering the long-heralded change in the cataloguing rule set - RDA (Resource Description and Access). |