Table of contents: issue43

EuroCAMP 2005

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Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino.

The rapid expansion of the Web and Internet in recent years has brought many benefits. It has never been easier to access scholarly information from anywhere in the world in real time. However, this information is often held in disparate systems and is protected by a variety of access control mechanisms, such as usernames and passwords. Many users have to struggle with increasingly complicated access control systems in order to access information they require. This is especially the case in Higher and Further Education.

Waking Up in the British Library

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Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature.

'The existence of EEBO has completely transformed my teaching as well as my own scholarly life -both entirely for the better'. Regius Professor Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge.

Delegates may have been surprised to hear about a pamphlet discussing Mary II's breasts as the subject for academic discussion at the 'Waking up in the British Library' event hosted by the John Rylands University Library.

United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005

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Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest Group Meeting

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Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal learning profiles.

Having recently joined the CETIS-TechDis Accessibility SIG (Special Interest Group), I attended the 10th meeting of the group in York on 16 March 2005. The meeting was held in the very new (opened that week) Higher Education Academy Building on the University of York campus where TechDis now has its offices. There was in interesting mix of digital artists, metadata officers, lecturers, project staff and programmers from both universities and colleges, along with people from Becta, JORUM and Key2Access Ltd.