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• Darrell Gunter, Terry Hulbert, Thane Kerner, Steve Leicht - The Semantic Web: what you need to know, and why it is important for your user community (March 2010)
• Richard Gedye and Fytton Rowland - Usage Factors (November 2009)
• Jenny Walker - Mining information-seeking behaviour data to enhance library services (July 2009)
• John Milner - A UK Research Data Service (UKRDS): the way forward for research data management? (March 2009)
• Jean Crawford - Securing access to print: the UKRR (November 2008)
• Amy Kirchhoff - Traditional and digital preservation: appraisal, accessioning and arrangement (July 2008)
• Amy Brand - CrossCheck (March 2008)
• Charlie Rapple - Social networking (November 2007)


• Mark Bide - Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) (July 2007)
• Frank Cervone - Federated Searching (March 2007)
• Leigh Dodds - Web 2.0 (November 2006)
• Timo Hannay - The Nature Podcast (July 2006)
• Adam Chandler and Tim Jewell - The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) (March 2006)
• Peter T Shepherd - COUNTER: for online journals, databases and books (November 2005)
• Ian Winship - Weblogs and RSS (July 2005)
• Chuck Hamaker and Brad Spry - Google Scholar Search (March 2005)
• Amy Brand - CrossRef Search (November 2004)
• Phil Bradley - What are weblogs? (March 2004)
• Barry Mahon - The Invisible/Deep Web (November 2003)
• Harry Collier - Data mining: does it have applications within the world of libraries? (July 2003)
• José Manuel Barrueco Cruz and Imma Subirats Coll - Documents in Information Science: a free space for our profession on the internet (July 2003)
• Paul Harwood - Courting controversy (role of the agent) (March 2003)
• Suzanne Wilson-Higgins - Print on Demand (March 2003)
• Stephen Pinfield - Creating institutional e-print repositories (November 2002)
• Chris Beckett - Aggregators - a taxonomy (November 2002)