Apologies for cross-posting:
Issue 61 of Ariadne was published recently:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/
In this issue the main articles are as follows:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/#main-articles
*Why Are Users So Useful?: User Engagement and the Experience of
the JISC Digitisation Programme
- Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in
the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from
the JISC Digitisation Programme.
*UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery
- Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe
an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced
discovery and retrieval facilities.
*Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to
Web 2.0
- Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales’ development of
a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world.
*Learning to YODL: Building York’s Digital Library
- Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year’s progress in
building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie
Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue.
*Search Engines: Real-time Search
- Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to
some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find
when exploring these engines.
*How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project
- Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan
Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create
overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.
*Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications
- Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and
communication process in which the role of authors will become
more dominant.
*Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian
- Michael Kennedy discusses the value of Archives 2.0 to the online
version of Ireland's 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' series.
At the Event reports:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/#at-the-event
*The RSP Goes “Back To School”
- Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for
repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP),
held in September 2009 in Northumberland.
*Internet Librarian International 2009
- Katherine Allen reports on Internet Librarian International 2009
which took place in London in October.
*Live Blogging @ IWMW 2009
- Kirsty McGill provides a live blogger perspective on the three-day
Institutional Web Managers Workshop, held by UKOLN at the University
of Essex, Colchester, in July 2009.
News and Reviews
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/#news
*Newsline: News and events
*Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper
- Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but
he also expresses some serious reservations.
*Information Tomorrow: Reflections on Technology and the Future of
Public and Academic Libraries
- Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of
reflections on the technological future of libraries.
*M-Libraries: Libraries on the move to provide virtual access
- Simon Speight reviews a collection of papers from the First
International M-Libraries Conference, which examined potential
library uses of mobile phones and other portable technology.
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