UKOLN News

This is a reminder that the deadline for booking a place on the “Initiatives & Innovation: Managing Disruptive Technologies” workshop – which will be held at the University of Warwick on 24 February 2006 – is 17 February 2006.

The tenth anniversary issue of Ariadne has appeared containing specially commissioned articles on the developments that have occurred in the lifetime of the Magazine and their authors” view on potential changes for the future. Peter Brophy, Reg Carr, Lorcan Dempsey, Patrick Lauke, Derek Law, Clifford Lynch, John MacColl, Charles Oppenheim and Chris Rusbridge have all contributed to this issue supported by submissions on reviews and events in the usual way. We are confident that readers will all find something to engage their interest in this reflective decennial issue of Ariadne.

Michael Heaney of Oxford University Library Services has extended his entity-relation model of collections and their catalogues to include modelling of the means by which users obtain access to collections. The result is a new document “Users and Information Resources: An
Extension of the Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues into Usage and Transactions”

Ariadne Web Magazine”s 10th Anniversary Issue will be appearing soon and will carry material reflecting in a number of ways on the period in which the Magazine has operated. Among others, Derek Law will be writing on “Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice” and how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years. In “Projects into Services: The UK Experience”, Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services, while in “What Users Want: An Academic “Hybrid” Library Perspective”, Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. In “Google Challenges for Academic Libraries” John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments. There will also be a bumper pack of reviews on works which cover a slightly broader spectrum in the light of Ariadne”s 10 years on the Web. We take this opportunity to thank the many well-wishers and hope they will continue to read and support Ariadne”s work.

Congratulations to EDINA, who, on 25 January 2006, celebrate ten years as a JISC National Data Centre.

Final papers, presentations and posters presented at the PV 2005 conference – which took place at The Royal Society, Edinburgh, in November 2005 – are now available.

Notes by Andy Powell identifying some of the technical criteria that might be used to evaluate the different institutional repository (IR) software platform options, particularly in terms of the machine interfaces that the repository offers.

The call for papers is now announced for the CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group”s Annual Conference. Proposals for papers should be submitted no later than 28 February 2006.

The JISC Digital Repositories Programme Support team located in UKOLN has established a discussion list jisc-repositories@jiscmail.ac.uk for discussion about cross domain repository technologies, policies etc.

The call for speakers for this year”s Institutional Web Management Workshop, to held at the University of Bath on Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 June 2006, is now open. The theme for the workshop is Quality Matters.