UKOLN News

The online booking for the annual Institutional Web Management Workshop is now open. This year the event, which is aimed at members of Institutional Web Management teams, will be held at the University of Birmingham on 27-29 July.

UKOLN has a vacancy for an Assistant Resource Co-ordinator. The closing date is for applications is 26 May

The workshops in Edinburgh (Friday 14th May) and Nottingham (Monday 24th May 2004) are now full. The workshops will provide an introduction to eprints and institutional repositories and the issues surrounding them; they
are aimed at HE/FE librarians, information systems staff and academics and are free to attend.

The latest Collection Description Focus newsletter is now available.

has articles on preservation issues including a detailed report from Michael Day on the Lisbon Erpanet/CODATA Workshop together with articles on a National Archive of Datasets and a major FP6 audio-visual preservation project. Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the current technical
collaboration between the LTSN and RDN in respect of resource discovery while Penny Garrod mirrors the changing face of the public library. Chris
Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme while Brian Kelly investigates a new technology to support conferences. Meanwhile Paul Miller introduces the Common Information Environment. Morag Mackie
looks at strategies for filling institutional repositories and personalisation is hailed as a linchpin in increasing user engagement in
South Yorkshire”s libraries.