Hi there,

Amber and her colleagues have an article in this month's Ariadne on 
their current DEL project which I'm sure will be of interest:

Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/thomas-rothery/

All the best
Lorna

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> From: R Waller <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2 November 2005 20:26:01 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Ariadne issue 45  (October 2005) now available
> Reply-To: jisc development discussion forum              
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> With apologies for any cross-posting:
>
> Issue 45 of  Ariadne was published on 30 October 2005:
> http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/
>
> Main Articles:
>
> *  Web 2.0: Building the New Library
> -   Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 
> 'Web 2.0'
>     and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations.
>
> *  Putting the Library into the Institution:
>     Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search within Portal Frameworks
> -   Chris Awre, Ian Dolphin, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J 
> Dovey and
> Jon Hunter and  describe the investigations and technical development
> undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation 
> Environment
> (CREE)Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools 
> within
> portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards.
>
> *  Looking for More than Text?
> -   Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments
> in digitisation programmes, online delivery services and specialised 
> search
> engines which cater for searching and locating still images and 
> time-based
> media and consider the issues that surround their use,focusing 
> particularly
> on JISC developments.
>
> *  Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective
> -   Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories 
> are being
> used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the 
> user
> perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository 
> development.
>
> *  A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch
> Institutional Repositories
> -    Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of 
> Science
> Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site 
> offering open
> access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across 
> the
> Netherlands.
>
> *  DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow ePrints Service
> -    Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings 
> of the
> DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service.
>
> *  Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly 
> Communication
> -    Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in 
> managing
> the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly
> communication.
>
> Get Tooled Up:
>
> *   Improving DSpace@OSU with a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission 
> Process
> -    Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a 
> usability
> study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State 
> University
> undertaken to improve the DSpace Electronic Thesis and Dissertation 
> submission
> process.
>
> Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:
>
> *  Distributed Services Registry Workshop
> -   John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman 
> House,
> University of Warwick in July 2005.
>
> *  DC 2005
> -   Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin 
> Core
> and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held in Madrid in
> September 2005.
>
> *  Digital Curation: Where Do We Go From Here?
> -    Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st
> International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 
> 2005.
>
> *  Building the Info Grid
> -   Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the 
> conference
> Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library
> technology  and services held in Copenhagen in September.
>
> Ariadne Reviews:
>
> *  Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources:
> a how-to-do-it manual for librarians
> -   Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a 
> library
> catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of 
> organising
> and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed.
>
> *  Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services
> -   Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the
> acquisitions field.
>
> *  Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 38, 2004
> -   Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication 
> on
> information science and technology.
>
> ..Plus our regular columns and newsline.
>
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>
> Best regards,
> Richard Waller
> Editor Ariadne
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Lorna M. Campbell
Assistant Director, CETIS
University of Strathclyde
+44 (0)141 548 3072
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/