1. The future of digital information provision2. The usability of digital information environments: planning, design and assessment3. The history of Enquire: the story of UK public libraries on the Web4. Children of the cloud5. Surviving or thriving? Building an information landscape6. The effect the changing digital landscape is having on the dissemination of e-books and e-journals in a world dominated by Google7. Resource discovery8. Using the Mirrorworld to plan and build better futures for our citizens9. Beyond the Google generation: towards community-specific usage patterns of scientific information10. What we leave behind: the future of data curation11. The digital curation toolkit: strategies for adding value to work-related social systems12. The JISC Business and Community Engagement Programme13. Skills Portal: a study skills and information literacy portal created with Open Educational Resources14. Free at last15. Flexible and agile university library and information services: skills and management methodologies16. The future of academic libraries in the digital age17. Roadblocks, potholes and obstructions on the path to new library futures
List of abbreviations
ACT-IF Adaptive Control of Thought in Information Foraging
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
ADDIE Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate
AI Adobe Illustrator
AI Artificial Intelligence
API Application Programming Interface
ASK Anomalous State of Knowledge
ASP Active Server Pages
AURIL Association for University Research and Industry Links
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BCE Business and Community Engagement
BL British Library
BLLD British Library Lending Division
BMA British Medical Association
CAUL Council of Australian University Librarians
CC Creative Commons
CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research
CIBER Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research
CILIP Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
CNN Cable News Network
CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
COPAC National, Academic and Specialist Library Catalogue
CPD Continuing Professional Development
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
CURL Consortium of University Research Libraries
DAM Digital Asset Management
DDE Design, Develop and Evaluate
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DNER Distributed National Electronic Resource
DTD Document Type Definition
EAD Encoded Archival Description
EARL Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries Consortium
EES Effectiveness, Efficiency and Satisfaction
EIT Electronic and Information Technology
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
EPUB Electronic Publication
ESP Extra-Sensory Perception
FE Further Education
FOAF Friend of a Friend
GDP Gross Domestic Product
HAL Hyper Article en Ligne
HCD Human-Centred Design
HCI HumanzComputer Interaction
HE Higher Education
HEA Higher Education Academy
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
HR Human Resources
HSS Humanities and Social Science
HTML HyperText Markup Language
Hz Hertz
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IE Information Environment
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations
ILL Interlibrary Loan
IM Instant Messaging
IP Intellectual Property
IPR Intellectual Property Rights
IRs Institutional Repositories
ISO International Organization for Standardization
IT Information Technology
ITT Invitation to Tender
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP Java Server Pages
JURA Joint Universities Research Archive
LASER London and South Eastern Library Region
LF&G Lead, Follow and Get Out of the Way
LIBRIS Library Information System
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging
LIS Library and Information Science
MARC Machine Readable Cataloguing
MBTI Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
MEDEV Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MLA Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
MSP Managing Successful Programmes
MT Machine Translation
NCCPE National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement
NHS National Health Service
NLL National Lending Library for Science and Technology
OAI-PMH Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
OCW OpenCourseWare
OER Open Educational Resources
OGC Office of Government Commerce
OOER Organising Open Educational Resources
OS Ordnance Survey
OWL Web Ontology Language
PC Personal Computer
PCT Primary Care Trusts
PDA Patron Driven Acquisitions
PDF Portable Document Format
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PLoS Public Library of Science
POS Parts-of-Speech
PRINCE Projects in Controlled Environments
RDF Resource Description Framework
RDF Researcher Development Framework
RDFS Resource Description Framework Schema
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RIN Research Information Network
RLO Reusable Learning Object
RLUK Research Libraries United Kingdom
ROI Return on Investment
RSS Really Simple Syndication
SAF Self-Analysis Framework
SCL Society of Chief Librarians
SCOAP3 Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
SCONUL Society of College, National and University Libraries
SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model
SME Small to Medium Enterprises
SPIRIT Strategic Priority Investments in Research and Innovation Translation
STM Science, Technology and Medicine
SUNCAT Serials Union Catalogue
TCR The Combined Regions
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
UCD User-Centered Design
UCT University of Cape Town
UI User Interface
UKNUC United Kingdom National Union Catalogue
UKOLN United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking
URI Uniform Resource Identifiers
URL Universal Resource Locator
UX User Experience
VDT Visual Display Terminals
VLE Virtual Learning Environment
VR Virtual Reality
W3C World Wide Web...
