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The Reading Agency hit back, saying "where libraries offer a more dynamic, interactive reading service, the public respond with alacrity". One of its textbook examples was the Summer Reading Challenge (SRC), its literary initiative that encourages thousands of children to become avid readers every year. - Ian Clark

Non-Yahoo! login page - Ian Clark

What seems clear is that if libraries just sit back and wait to see what happens, rather than participating in the cycle of innovation and competition, they will end up with diminished roles in our culture. It's important that we don't let that happen. - Ian Clark

Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries’ growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging. - Ian Clark

Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries’ growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging. - Ian Clark

One thing that hasn't changed, he stresses, is the company's sense of social responsibility – 10% of the profits are still shared among the staff every year. The business, Gregg says, "has always been based on the philosophy of look after your staff properly and they'll look after the customers, and together, they'll look after the business. I don't know why more companies aren't like that." - Ian Clark

One thing that hasn't changed, he stresses, is the company's sense of social responsibility – 10% of the profits are still shared among the staff every year. The business, Gregg says, "has always been based on the philosophy of look after your staff properly and they'll look after the customers, and together, they'll look after the business. I don't know why more companies aren't like that." - Ian Clark

SCONUL promotes excellence in library services in higher education and national libraries across the UK and Ireland - Ian Clark

SCONUL Access enables staff, students, and research students to borrow material from other libraries. - Ian Clark

Redditch library's Flickr page including photographic updates of progress with their refurb. - Ian Clark

Sample first chapter of Lorna Hughes' book on digitising collections. - Ian Clark

The National Library of Wales' Creative Commons Flickr account. - Ian Clark

A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections provides an overview of some of the major components and activities involved in the creation of good digital collections - Ian Clark

This document provides some recommendations for the use of simple Dublin Core metadata [1] to describe eprints in eprint archives. - Ian Clark

PURLs (Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) are Web addresses that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. Instead of resolving directly to Web resources, PURLs provide a level of indirection that allows the underlying Web addresses of resources to change over time without negatively affecting systems that depend on them. This capability provides continuity of references to network resources that may migrate from machine to machine for business, social or technical reasons. - Ian Clark

First chapter of David Haynes' "Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval". - Ian Clark

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System is for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOI® names are assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet. Information about a digital object may change over time, including where to find it, but its DOI name will not change. - Ian Clark

Paul Miller discusses that almost all-pervasive term, interoperability, and looks at what it really means to be interoperable. - Ian Clark

Defines Dublin Core. - Ian Clark

Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. - Ian Clark

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. - Ian Clark

The role of the integrated library system is, and always has been, to help manage the effective delivery of library services. This has traditionally been anchored on the management of the catalogue and physical collection. The core business and service model could be described as 'Acquire - Catalogue - Circulate'. This is increasingly no longer the case. - Ian Clark

DSpace open source software enables open sharing of content - Ian Clark

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU operating system. - Ian Clark

The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, CMCC (composed of the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum), is pleased to present an evolving searchable catalogue of its collections. Types of artifacts found in our database include: archaeological specimens, aboriginal arts and artifacts, folk art, furniture, war art, military objects, glass, porcelain, textiles and much more. - Ian Clark

Our primary focus is the information retrieval market for structured, textual and multimedia information where high speed of retrieval and potential for data growth are important factors. - Ian Clark

We can audit an existing site to help you identify work which needs to be done to improve its accessibility . Alternatively we can carry out a development audit as you design and build a new site or redesign a site, to help you keep it on track to meet your accessibility target level. - Ian Clark

The JISC TechDis Service aims to be the leading educational advisory service, working across the UK, in the fields of accessibility and inclusion. - Ian Clark

Dublin City Public Libraries avails of a wide range of assistive technology and computer-based solutions to assist: * Blind and visually impaired people * People with learning/intellectual disabilities * People whose first language is not English - Ian Clark

The mission of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online. - Ian Clark