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• Internet Librarian International Conference 2014

  Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.

• LinkedUp: Linking Open Data for Education

  Marieke Guy, Mathieu d’Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Eelco Herder and Elisabetta Parodi describe the activities carried out by the LinkedUp Project looking at the promotion of open data in education.

• Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change

  Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work, now in its sixth edition, which examines the information society, its origin, development, its associated issues and the current landscape.

• JABES 2013

  Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013.

• 23rd International CODATA Conference

  Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 70

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.

• IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012.

• Online Information 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.

• Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing

  Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals.

• Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal?

  Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’.

• Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme

  Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.

• A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector?

  Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 2011.

• Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade

  Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66.

• RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration

  Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research.

• Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap

  Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK.

• From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records

  Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow.

• Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting

  Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010.

• Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities

  Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications.

• Book Review: Information Science in Transition

  Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The 2010 Information Architecture Summit

  Elizabeth Coburn reports on ASIS&T's 11th Annual Information Architecture Summit, held in Phoenix, Arizona over 9-11 April 2010.

• Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

  Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did!

• Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?

  Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data

  Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford.

• Book Review: Information Tomorrow

  Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries.

• Live Blogging @ IWMW 2009

  Kirsty McGill provides a live blogger perspective on the three-day Institutional Web Managers Workshop, held by UKOLN at the University of Essex, Colchester, in July 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Norwegian National Digital Library

  Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

• A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator

  Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008.

• Blended Learning and Online Tutoring: Planning Learner Support and Activity Design

  Lyn Parker does not consider that the second edition has changed considerably from the first edition despite the publishers' blurb to the contrary. Nonetheless, she feels there is much of value.

• Book Review: Copyright Compliance

  Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy.

• Book Review: Digital Information Culture

  Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies.

• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch

  Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

• Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections

  Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Digital Copyright

  Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property.

• Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks

  Gill Ferrell reports on a one-day workshop about Blogs and Social Networks, held in Birmingham in November 2007.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ALPSP Conference

  Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007.

• Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?

  Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects

  Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government.

• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching

  Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions.

• New Search Engines in 2006

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals

  Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation

  Dave Thompson reports on a two-day conference on Email Curation organised by the Digital Curation Centre.

• ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith

  Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web 2.0: Building the New Library

  Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations.

• Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project

  Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

• Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity

  Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating.

• EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available

  Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• EuroCAMP 2005

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road

  Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office.

• Assessing the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the FE and HE Sectors

  Steve Bailey describes how the FE and HE sectors have prepared for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and what challenges still lay ahead.

• Shibboleth Installation Workshop

  James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK.

• ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

  Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

• Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements

  Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.

• World Wide Web Conference 2004

  Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

• A National Archive of Datasets

  Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users.

• Book Review: The Accidental Webmaster

  Andy Prue examines a guide aimed at inexperienced Webmasters. While the book covers some interesting and salient points, Andy raises questions as to the ideal audience.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: The Google Backlash

  Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective.

• Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future

  Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals.

• Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services

  Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference.

• 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.

• Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse

  Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36

  Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual.

• Review: Naked in Cyberspace

  Marieke Guy taps into our increasing collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the use of personal information in the Cyber Age.

• eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning

  Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance.

• Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide

  Lina Coelho reviews a practical guide to the Internet.

• The Personalisation of the Digital Library

  Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities.

• OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential

  Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod's second outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

• EEVL: Email Newsletters Examples from Engineering

  Jim Corlett explains how email newsletters can benefit you.

• Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges

  Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.

• After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning

  Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning.

• E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing?

  Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector.

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

  Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

  John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.

• Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?

  Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together.

• Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach

  Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology.

• ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS).

• JISC ASSIST

  Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit.

• Tolimac: 'Smart Card People Are Happy People'

  Sally Rumsey explains a pilot electronic document delivery service at the University of Surrey Library.

• Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services

  Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine.

• ALA '98

  Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C.

• Information Ecosystems

  John MacColl follows up last issue's breakdown of papers with his reflections on the UKOLN conference held in Bath University at the end of June.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• RDF Seminar

  Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath.

• Showing Robots the Door

  Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled.

• Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference

  Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

  Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

  Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

• Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?

  Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine

  Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems.