are you interested in reading some new informative and topical articles on the use of web portals by Libraries? Including their use in teaching and learning?
A new issue of ASSIGNation focuses upon this. The contents are below.
ASSIGNation is published quarterly by the Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences (ALISS) (formerly known as ASSIGN)
one off issues may be purchased for £14
annual subscriptions for volume 22 (of which this is part 3 ) are £20 for individuals, £35 for institutions.
From October 2005 ASSIGNation (which will be renamed ALISS quarterly) will be issued free of charge to ALISS members.
ASSIGNation
Volume 22 no.3 April 2005
Special Issue: Portals
Contents
Editorial
Heather Dawson
Overview
Portals: Useful starting points for research
Heather Dawson, SOSIG Government and Politics Editor
National Initiatives
The JISC Information Environment Service Registry
Ann Apps, MIMAS, The University of Manchester
The Subject Portals Project
Rosemary Russell, SPP Project Manager, UKOLN, University of Bath
ESRC Society Today - Expanding the Online Potential for Social Science Research
Drs. Astrid Wissenburg, Director for Communications and Information at the
Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
Technical Projects.
The CREE (Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment) Project: evaluating contextual use of Internet search tools
Chris Awre, CREE Project Manager
Managing Access in an institutional portal using Shibboleth:
The PERSEUS Project at LSE
Mariam Garibyan, Project and Communications Officer for the PERSEUS Project, London School of Economics and Political Science Library
Institutional Services.
Library Portals Case Studies
Yvonne Hamblin, Research Associate LISU, Loughborough University.
LSE for You
Stephen Emmott, Head of Web Services, London School of Economics and Chris Cobb Director of Business Systems and Services London School of Economics
PORTAL - the British Academy's Online Directory of Research Resources
Abigail Cooke, Web Content Manager, The British Academy
How the Virtual Learning Portal was developed at Nottingham Trent University.
Wendy Hannah, Elearning Developments, Library and Learning Resources
Nottingham Trent University
for further information on the journal or the development of ALISS see our web site at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/other_sites/aliss/news.html
and contact
Heather Dawson
ALISS Secretary
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