+ e-Framework Implements New Workplan Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research.
+ A Support Framework for Remote Workers Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.
+ To VRE or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment? Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa.
+ Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.
+ Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union.
+ Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both challenging and thought-provoking.
+ Book Review: Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries: Issues and Practices Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up?
+ Reader Development in Practice: bringing literature to readers Abigail Luthmann examines a varied collection of approaches to the topic of reader development.
+ Sketching Tomorrow
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of modern society to information and communication technologies and observes more sins of omission than commission.
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