Organisation - British Library

• Developing Adaptable, Efficient Mobile Library Services: Librarians as Enablers

  Lizzie Caperon describes how library resources can be targeted towards effective mobile services as mobile devices become increasingly prevalent in Higher Education.

• 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.

• Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.

• SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond

  Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.

• Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton

  Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.

• Book Review: Information Consulting - Guide to good practice

  Martin White reviews a book written by three experienced consultants that seeks to support information professionals in setting themselves up as consultants.

• 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.

• Making Citation Work: A British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a workshop on practical data citation issues for institutions, held at the British Library, London, on 8 March 2013.

• eMargin: A Collaborative Textual Annotation Tool

  Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.

• 21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia

  Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work.

• CURATEcamp iPres 2012

  Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto.

• Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant.

• 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’.

• Launching a New Community-owned Content Service

  Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.

• The Second British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012.

• Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres

  Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres.

• Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

  Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.

• Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Project Launch Conference

  Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.

• IMPACT Final Conference 2011

  Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper.

• The Future of the Past of the Web

  Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011.

• The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade

  Liz Lyon proposes that libraries re-position, re-profile and ramp up their engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science.

• Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services

  John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0.

• DataCite UK User Group Meeting

  Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011.

• 10 Years of Zetoc

  Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66.

• 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.

• Turning Off Tap Into Bath

  Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software.

• Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed.

• CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'

  Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access

  Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

• Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls

  Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management.

• E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content

  Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively.

• Evidence, Value and Impact: The LIS Research Landscape in 2010

  Stephanie Kenna reports on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, held at the British Library on 28 June 2010.

• Intute Reflections at the End of an Era

  Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year.

• 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.

• 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.

• Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE

  Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

  Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.

• 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.

• Don't You Know Who I Am?

  John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• RDA: Resource Description and Access

  Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010.

• Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries

  Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project.

• Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way

  Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010.

• A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies

  Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research.

• Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management

  Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

  Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The RSP Goes 'Back to School'

  Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland.

• Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme

  Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme.

• JISC Digital Content Conference 2009

  Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

• Missing Links: The Enduring Web

  Alexandra Eveleigh reports on a workshop on Web archiving, organised by the DPC, JISC and UKWAC at the British Library on 21 July 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers

  Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities.

• EThOS: from Project to Service

  Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?

  Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa.

• Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility

  Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector.

• CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference

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

• Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future With Planets

  Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

• Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution

  Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

• Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective

  Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library.

• What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub

  Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site.

• iPRES 2008

  Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

• Book Review: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0

  Emma Delaney considers the effects of Web 2.0 on delivering information literacy to library students and end-users.

• 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.

• Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia

  Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54.

• Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

  Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.

• Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges

  Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

• EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community

  Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52.

• IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library

  Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool.

• Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project

  Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme.

• Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production

  It's not like writing a paper. Film production, when the camera points at you, can challenge all sorts of sensitivities. Steve Hitchcock survived the ordeal to tell the story of the Preserv Project video.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The JISC Annual Conference 2007

  Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Curator Tool

  Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.

• DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning

  Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.

• Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...

  David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• RDA: A New International Standard

  Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).

• C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series

  Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Digital Policy Management Workshop

  Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006.

• Retrospective on the RDN

  Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.

• The Digital Library and Its Services

  Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006.

• The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference

  Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference.

• C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series

  Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006.

• Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade

  Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005.

• Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

  Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.

• Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites

  Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

  Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.

• The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

  Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

• What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

  Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.

• DC 2005

  Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005.

• Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here?

  Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives

  Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches to disaster management.

• DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers

  Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC.

• EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips

  Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL.

• Revealing All

  Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people.

• Digital Preservation: Best Practice and Its Dissemination

  Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use in training and professional practice.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43.

• National Library Goes Local

  Stephanie Kenna and Sue Cook tell the story behind the British Library's online training package for public library staff.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions

  Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK.

• Waking Up in the British Library

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

• A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre

  Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004.

• Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century

  John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

  Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society.

• ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report

  Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004.

• ISBN-13: New Number on the Block

  Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability

  Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004.

• The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace

  Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• Collection-level Description: Thinking Globally before Acting Locally

  Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry.

• Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service

  Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

• The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference

  Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July.

• The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources

  Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers.

• Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment

  Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services.

• 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.

• The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?

  Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.

• The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution

  Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.

• Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries

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

• What's in SOSIG for Further Education?

  Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003

• MIMAS Ten Years on

  Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape

  Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage

  Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35.

• Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment

  Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Review: Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers?

  Penny Garrod reviews a book on libraries published by Office for Humanities Communication Publications.

• Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century

  Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002.

• Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

  John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

• Digital Libraries in China

  Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002.

• OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential

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

• Public Libraries: United We Stand

  Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world.

• Collection Description in Focus

  Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

  by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project.

• Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002.

• Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel

  Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year.

• The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme

  Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme.

• Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network

  Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.

• Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London.

• Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?

  David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.

• Public Libraries

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

• Architects of the Information Age

  Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.

• Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus

  Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus.

• Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives

  Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29.

• Establishing a Digital Library Centre

  John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.

• Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions

  Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services.

• Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down?

  Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread

  Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics?

  Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project

  Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history.

• Hylife: Ten Steps to Success

  Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project.

• Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure

  Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

  John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh.

• After eLib

  Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

• Clumps Come Up Trumps

  Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER.

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

  Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.

• The Future Is Hybrid: London

  Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London.

• Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA)

  Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library).

• A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways

  Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences

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

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

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

• In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People

  Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.

• Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Heather Dawson with news of the recently merged Social Science Librarians Group.

• Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March

• I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?

  Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri.

• What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us?

  Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective.

• A Free ISP from the British Library

  Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

  Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'.

• Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest

  Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest.

• Bibliotecas Universitarias Consorcio

  Agnès Guyon reports on a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, 26th and 27th April 1999.

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20.

• Planet SOSIG

  Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services.

• Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System

  Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project

  Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project.

• WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project

  Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project.

• CEDARS

  Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives.

• Knowledge Management

  Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether.

• Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways

  Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

• Public Libraries Corner

  Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does.

• VERITY

  Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project.

• Why Give It Away?

  David Haynes, Elizabeth Lyon and David Streatfield explore the mysteries of devolved budgeting.

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol

  Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility.

• Information Landscapes

  Rosemary Russell, Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes report on the UKOLN conference held in June 1998.

• A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?

  David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• Internet Resources for Older People

  Internet resources for older people: Monica Blake describes some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries Corner: An Internet Open Day

  Sally Criddle describes a World Wide Web training event organised by UKOLN and the University of Bath for the 1997 National Libraries Week.

• So What Is So Exciting about LAMDA?

  Frederick Friend explains about electronic document delivery in London and Manchester.

• Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine

  Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG: Politically Correct - Editing the Politics Section of SOSIG

  Heather Dawson from The British Library of Political and Economic Science talks about her role as a SOSIG Section Editor.

• The British Library's Digital Libraries Programme

  Lyndon Pugh meets with Sue Howley to discuss the British Library's digital research programme.

• What Do National Libraries Do in the Age of the Internet?

  Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries.

• Old Ghosts Rear Their Heads

  Peter Brophy calls for effective use of email.

• Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song

  Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network.

• The History of History

  Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• Digital Libraries '97

  David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In part two of this report, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years.

• SIGIR '97

  David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

• Theses Unbound

  Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.

• York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet

  Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

• BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians

  Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

• Clifford Lynch in Interview

  Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.

• Interface: Dennis Nicholson

  Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson.

• Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued)

  Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense.

• Public Libraries Corner: Stories from the Web

  Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project.

• Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research

  Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme.

• Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation

  Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

• Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures

  Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes.

• Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library

  Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London.

• COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue

  Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC.

• MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services

  Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps.

• Making a MARC With Dublin Core

  Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records.

• Preserving Oral History Recordings

  Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia.

• RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services

  Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design.

• Public Libraries Corner: Life After the Millenium Bid

  After the recent disappointing turn-down of the millenium bid to connect public libraries to the Internet, Sarah Ormes wonders where we go from here.

• The British Libraries Private Finance Initiative

  The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne an exclusive on its Private Finance Initiative.

• 10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar

  Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement.

• Allerton 1996

  Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science.

• British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?

  Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research.

• Infopolecon

  John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.

• The BNBMARC Currency Survey

  Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records.

• British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines

  Seamus Ross provides the programme for a symposium which seeks to explore how information technology has affected research in the humanities and social sciences.

• British Library Corner: Text and the Internet

  Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 5

  The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5.

• HELIX

  Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme.

• Interface: EARL

  Derek Law threw down the gauntlet to public libraries in a recent issue of Ariadne. Appropriately, an EARL picked it up. Alison Kilgour reports.

• Metadata for the Masses

  Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

• NewsAgent for Librarians

  Mark Kerr, research assistant on the NewsAgent for Libraries Project, describes a project to build a news and current awareness service for the LIS community.

• PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet

  In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year.

• The International Institute for Electronic Library Research: A New Kid on the Block

  Marilyn Deegan describes the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, a significant new centre of research based at De Montfort University.

• Are They Being Served?

  Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs.

• Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection

  Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems.

• Globally Yours

  Hazel Gott gives a brief overview of the Follett Lecture Series, where overseas experts in the fields of Library and Information Science speak in various UK locations.

• JUGL

  Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

• Libtech '96: eLib goes to Libtech '96

  John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at the Libtech '96 event.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility?

  Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference.

• SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network

  Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers.

• Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm

  Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries.

• Adam Farquhar

• Chris Clark

• Clive Billenness

• Helen Hockx-Yu

• J Max Wilkinson

• Jackson Pope

• Jane Humphreys

• Jeremy Leighton John

• Katrina Dean

• Neil Beagrie

• Philip Beresford

• Robina Clayphan

• Ronald Milne

• Sarah Hammond BSc MA

• Tom Pollard