Friday, May 19, 2006

eLucidate May/June issue now available

The May/June issue of eLucidate is out now:
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/index.html

Feature (members only)
The NPRIE Website - A Glance Behind the Scenes by Steve Burgess (West Yorkshire Probation Board) An account of a purpose-built content management system for the National Probation Research and Information Exchange.

Online (members only) by the Aberystwyth Online User Group. Essential updates on new online resources....

Internet (members only)
Library 2.0 - more questions than answers, by Susan Miles, Kingston University. Library 2.0: various views of what it is, and how it can be used.

Intranets (members only) by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd. An account of the 2006 Search Engine Meeting, held this year in Boston, USA, in April 2006.

Public Sector News (members only) by Jane Inman, Warwickshire County Council. Public Sector News is supplied by ALGIS (The Affiliation of Local Government Information Specialists) which represents information professionals providing information services to local authority staff and elected members. Update on e-local authority websites, and developments in Europe.

Letters Response to the piece in the last eLucidate on Institutitional Repositories and a recent posting on the JISC-REPOSITORIES list.

Meeting reports Searching the Internet: Google and beyond and Taming your Intranet

Current Awareness (members only) This column contains summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries etc. including, with permission, abstracts identified with an * next to the author initials, drawn from Current Cites, the monthly publication distributed electronically by a team of Librarians and library Staff and edited by Roy Tennant. This issue covers content management, digital libraries, education, electronic publishing, information access and retrieval, legal issues, preservation, security and web design.

Book Reviews Peopleware: Electronic Resources in the Virtual Learning Environment: a Guide for Librarians, reviewed by Russell Burke.

Press Releases and News
News on SAGE agreements with CLOCKSS and Portico to Preserve E-Journal Content, PerX (Pilot Engineering Repository Xsearch), and the UK and New Zealand ICT agreement.

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