Issue 48

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48.

• Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise

  Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.

• Intute: The New Best of the Web

  Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

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

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

• UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go from Here

  Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report.

• Accoona: Super-Charged Super Target Searching

  Phil Bradley puts a relative newcomer through its paces and finds some very useful features together with potential for improvement.

• The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on

  Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

• 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.

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

  Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

• IWMW 2006: Quality Matters

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.

• 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.

• 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.

• JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006

  Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'.

• 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.

• Fedora Users Conference

  Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006.

• CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League

  Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Blended Learning and Online Tutoring

  Lyn Parker considers that this book meets its aim of providing practical advice for tutors and staff developers engaged in online activities and blended learning.

• Book Review: Managing Change

  Donald Maclean reviews a text that lays down guidelines for information managers attempting to analyse, implement and evaluate change within their organisation.

• Book Review: Evaluating the Impact of Your Library

  David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology.

• Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition

  Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort.