Issue 46

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding

  John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice

  Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years.

• Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects

  Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Google Challenges for Academic Libraries

  John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments.

• Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

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

• Accessibility Testing and Reporting With TAW3

  Patrick Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to aid in accessibility testing of Web pages.

• 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.

• JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses

  Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at this series of personal and researched historical analyses of the history of computerised information retrieval systems, and finds it makes fascinating reading if you are interested in such things.

• Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

  Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

• Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture

  Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context.

• Book Review: Managing Electronic Records

  Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management.

• Book Review: E-metrics for Library and Information Professionals

  Elizabeth McHugh learns about the importance of locally produced e-metrics and how they could be produced using available technologies.

• Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres

  Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings.

• Book Review: Developing the New Learning Environment

  Stephen Town welcomes this new text on a key issue for the future of academic librarians, and suggests some broader questions for consideration.