The February 2006 issue of Ariadne is available – it’s their 10th anniversary!
Projects into Services: The UK Experience:
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.
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.
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After: Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.
Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice:
Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years.
Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects: Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.
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.
Excuse Me … Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?: Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.
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