UKOLN News

Ariadne Issue no.50 was published on 30 January 2007. It includes (among others) an article by Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim on models of early adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education, a contribution from Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott on the challenges of integrating information across boundaries between knowledge communities, an article by Philip Beresford giving the story from the British Library”s perspective of the development of new software to support all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation and Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre, while Marieke Guy and Paul Walk contribute on interesting wiki and JISC CETIS events.

Gráinne Conole, Professor of e-Learning at the Open University, has recently completed an external evaluation of the JISC-funded eBank Project. Funding for Phase 3 of the Project was recently awarded from the JISC Capital Programme. Professor Conole”s findings are now available.

This is a call for speakers and workshop facilitators for this year”s Institutional Web Management Workshop. IWMW 2007 will be held at the University of York from Monday 16 – Wednesday 18 July 2007. The workshop is for all people involved in the management of institutional Web services.