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Issue 52 of Ariadne contains the following articles:

Main Articles
*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.

*Web Archiving at the British Library:
Trials with the Web Curator Tool
- Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford 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.

At the Event
*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.


Ariadne Reviews
*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.


*Managing Technical 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.

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