Table of contents: issue25

Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet

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Phil Bradley offers his latest look at the search engine marketplace.

In one of my earlier columns I looked at the different ways in which it was possible to find information about individuals on the Internet. I thought that for this issue I'd revisit the concept of finding a particular type of information, but instead of looking for people, I'd look for images instead. When I refer to 'images' here, I'm not really talking about small icons, coloured balls or page dividers that web designers like to use on their websites; there are thousands of such libraries available for this purpose, and they can easily be located - simply go to one of the many Yahoo!

Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences

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Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite.

RDN Virtual Training Suite

SOSIG is pleased to announce the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network) Virtual Training Suite - a set of free, interactive, web-based tutorials for students, lecturers and researchers who want to discover what the Internet can offer in their subject area. Each tutorial has been written by an academic or librarian with specialist knowledge of both their subject area and the Internet. There are 11 tutorials available in phase one of the project (with another 27 in production).

Key features include the opportunity for users to:

EEVL Backs a Winner

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Roddy MacLeod and the team celebrate their 5th birthday with a day at the races, and supply some EEVL News Nuggets.

EEVL: is the UK guide to quality engineering information on the Internet. It is a free service, and is funded by JISC through the Resource Discovery Network (RDN).

BIOME News

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Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway.

BIOME Sites goes live!

The BIOME site is now available at http://biome.ac.uk/

Please visit the site and fill in the feedback form accessible from the BIOME home page. We value you comments and suggestions.

Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

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Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.

Like libraries, museums face the daunting task of preserving our cultural heritage, whilst also striving with the often conflicting need to make that cultural heritage available to us today.

Perhaps differently from libraries, interpretation plays an important part in the work of museums, where exhibitions are often designed around the telling of one or more stories about the past in order to place objects within their historical context.

Public Libraries: I Just Got Back from the Windy City..

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Sarah Ormes reports on the recent American Library Association conference held in Chicago.