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Issue 59 of Ariadne available

In this issue the main articles are as follows:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/#main-articles

*e-Framework Implements New Workplan
- Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming 
developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research.

*The REMAP Project: Steps towards a Repository-enabled Information 
Environment
- Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository
can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation
of its own digital content.

*A Support Framework for Remote Workers
- Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne
with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent
support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.

*Encouraging More Open Educational Resources with Southampton’s EdShare
- Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and 
the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching 
materials within and beyond the institution.

*To VRE or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a 
Virtual Research Environment?
- Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of
a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South 
Africa.

*EThOS: From Project to Service
- Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online 
Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.

*Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR
- Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of 
developing components for the Information Environment Metadata
Schema Registry.

*Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional 
Research Repositories in Europe
- Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf
report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted
to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the 
European Union.

*Publish and Cherish with Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems
- Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders to extend OA 
publishing conditions by stimulating the market.

At the Event reports:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/#at-the-event

*The Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009
-    Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information 
Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University.

*IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation
- Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens 
Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT 
Conference, held in The Hague.

*From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures 
for a Global Knowledge Society
- Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by 
the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin.

*Handshake Session at International Repositories Infrastructure 
Workshop, Amsterdam
- Adrian Stevenson highlights the Handshake Session which formed part
of the International Repositories InfrastructureWorkshop, at the 
Radisson SAS Hotel, Amsterdam.

*NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability
- Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana 
University.

News and Reviews
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/#news

*Newsline: News and events

*Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
- Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern 
institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both 
challenging and thought-provoking.

*Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries: Issues
and Practices
- Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following 
question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up?

*Reader Development in Practice: bringing literature to readers
- Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches to the 
topic of reader development.

*Sketching Tomorrow
- Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of 
modern society to information and communication technologies and 
observes more sins of omission than commission.

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