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The summer issue of the online magazine Ariadne is now available. Included are articles by Lorcan Dempsey and Robin Murray on the changing environment for library systems, while Caroline Williams, executive director of the newly-launched Intute service, gives an overview of some of the changes at the new service and its plans for the future.

As the Internet continues to expand, argues Caroline Williams, issues of quality and trust will only grow in their importance to education and research. Intute – formerly the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) – is well placed, she continues, to ‘respond[] to those fundamental principles of librarians and information professionals, namely trust, quality, and ease of use and user empowerment in the ever-changing and complex world of education’.

Alastair Dunning writes about the work of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) which celebrates its tenth year this summer. Taking his cue from an article in an early edition of Ariadne in 1996 which looked at the challenges facing the-then fledgling service, Alastair Dunning looks at the changes the AHDS has undergone in a decade of promoting the use of digital resources in the arts and humanities, and looks at the challenges ahead.

Other articles include an introduction by Martin Moyle on the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption project based in London, a look by Najla Semple and Maggie Jones on the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report, regular features, and much more.

To look at the new issue, please go to: Ariadne