"Looking for Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment" In New Issue (July, 2011) of Ariadne

Ariadne #64 (July, 2011)

Main Articles in This Issue:

Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources
Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources.

Image ‘Quotation’ Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture
Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for ‘quoting’ images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools.

Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath
Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath.

MyMobileBristol
Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.

Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges
Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath.

Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning
Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials.

From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.

Looking for the Link between Library Usage and Student Attainment
Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP).

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