Buzz - Librarything

• Engaging Researchers with Social Media Tools: 25 Research Things@Huddersfield

  Graham Stone and Ellen Collins investigate whether 25 Research Things, an innovative online learning programme, could help researchers understand the value of Web 2.0 tools.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67.

• Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning

  Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials.

• 23 Things in Public Libraries

  Helen Leech describes a collaborative project to increase front-line staff's understanding and use of Web 2.0 in public libraries.

• Public Library 2.0: Culture Change?

  Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries' growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging.

• Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context

  Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.

• CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference

  Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• Googlepository and the University Library

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education.

• What Happens When We Mash the Library?

  Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'.

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.