Ariadne highlights the changing library environment
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