Table of contents: issue38

Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries

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Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland.

The National Library of Finland led the organisation of this conference to bring together librarians and researchers from around the world to discuss progress with digital libraries. The aims were to explore how users were responding to digital services and to examine how services could be made more 'user-centred'. The conference was attended by 200 delegates from 23 countries.

Herding Tigers, Part II

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Sophie Clarke describes an event designed to share ideas on accessibility, evaluation and the use of learning technology standards.

'Herding Tigers' was held at Oxford University Computing Services on the 17 December 2003, with a theme of Best practice in e-Learning development. This was the second event of its type organised by the University's Learning Technologies Group [1], the previous year's having had a slightly different focus on raising awareness and collaborative working between e-Learning practitioners and academics.

OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development

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Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service.

OSS Watch [1] is a pilot advisory service set up by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to provide UK higher and further education with neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software and related standards.

Reaching Out to Your Community: Policies and Practice for Public Library Service

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Fiona Leslie gives an overview of this seminar which covered a variety of topics of interest to public library professionals.

The day's programme [1] started with an introduction by Ken Chad, sales director at Talis who welcomed delegates.