Issue 55

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.

• Custom-built Search Engines

  Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines.

• Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008

  Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata.

• South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides

  Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.

• Towards an Application Profile for Images

  Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC.

• 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.

• Intute Integration

  Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

• 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.

• Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative

  John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.

• 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.

• KIM Project Conference 2008

  Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

• Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008

  Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND.

• The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008

  Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond.

• VIF: Version Identification Workshop

  Sarah Molloy reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008.

• Libraries of the Future

  Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: The Thriving Library

  Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times.

• Book Review: Digital Information Culture

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

• Book Review: Information and Emotion

  Stephanie Taylor finds in Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory new ways to understand the emotions of users in a collection of work from the US information behaviour community.

• Book Review: Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion

  Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements.

• Book Review: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

  Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects.