With apologies for any cross-posting:
The Summer Issue of Ariadne is now available:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

Main Articles in Issue 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.

*Search Engines: 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 Jos Carlos Ramalho propose a
Service-oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to 
accomplish automatic digital preservation.

Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:

*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.

*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.

Ariadne Reviews
*Blended Learning and Online Tutoring. A good practice guide.
- 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.

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

*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.

*The Librarians 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.

- plus the Ariadne newsline of events and news items.

Note that since issue 47 the content of the current issue is also 
available as an  RSS feed.

Contributions to Ariadne issue 49 are being arranged and prepared;
please send proposals for articles to me at our regular contact point:

[log in to unmask]

Kindly send books for review to the Editor's address (below).
Best regards,
Richard Waller
Editor Ariadne
UKOLN
The Library
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
UK
tel +44 (0) 1225 383570
fax +44 (0) 1225 386838
Email [log in to unmask]
Web http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/