contains the following articles: Main Articles:
*Developing the Capability and Skills to Support eResearch- Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.
*South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides- Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.
*Digital Lives: Report of Interviews with the Creators of Personal Digital Collections- Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library.
*Towards an Application Profile for Images-Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC.
*Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative- John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.
*Custom-built Search Engines- Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines.
*Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008- Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata.
*Intute Integration- Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.
*Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia- Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. At the Event reports:
*Libraries of the Future- Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008.
*KIM Project Conference 2008- Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge andInformation Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.
*Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008- Siobhán Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND.
*The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008- Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond.
*VIF: Version Identification Workshop- Sarah Molloy reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008. News and Reviews:Newsline: News and events.
*The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times.- Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times.
*Digital Information Culture: The Individual and Society in the Digital Age- Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies.
*Information and Emotion- Stephanie Taylor finds in Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory new ways to understand the emotions of users in a collection of work from the US information behaviour community.
*Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion- Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements.
*Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management- Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects. Contributions to Ariadne issue 56 are being arranged and prepared; please send proposals for articles to me at our regular contact point:
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