Issue 52

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52.

• DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories

  Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study.

• ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository

  David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF.

• Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries

  Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries.

• The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates

  Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback.

• Repository Thrills and Spills

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative.

• Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors

  Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work.

• 24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future

  As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years.

• 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.

• EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community

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

• Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University

  Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community

  Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop.

• Repositories Support Project Summer School

  Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team.

• JASIG June 2007 Conference

  Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007.

• 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.

• Digital Repositories: Dealing With the Digital Deluge

  Pete Cliff gives an overall view of the multi-stranded JISC conference held in Manchester over 5-6 June 2007.

• Blogging from the Backroom

  Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 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.

• The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

  John MacColl reviews the first two volumes of this very substantial three-part work, covering the periods to 1640 and 1640-1850.

• Change Management in Information Services

  Ian Lovecy examines change theories and strategies, and their application to creating a change culture in an information service.

• Book Review: Managing the Test People

  Lina Coelho expected a book that would challenge her technical knowledge and understanding but found a readable and useful guide for the time-pressed manager.