Issue 78

• Editorial: Makerspaces, Agile, Reading Lists and Migrations

  In issue 78 we move Ariadne to a new delivery platform, have articles about makerspaces and digital scholarship centres, agile website usability testing, embedding reading list materials into a virtual learning environment, and include some event information and reports.

• Migrating Ariadne from Drupal to a Static Site

  Jason Cooper describes how the Ariadne journal has recently been moved from a Drupal based site, to a static site managed by Hugo and git.

• Building a Digital Scholarship Centre on the Successes of a Library Makerspace

  Heila Pienaar, Isak van der Walt and Sean Kruger discuss the exciting opportunity to build a Digital Scholarship Centre in the University of Pretoria Library based on the huge success of the Library’s Makerspace. This article looks at the possibility to develop a Digital Scholarship Centre on the foundation of a successful Library Makerspace. The University of Pretoria Library Makerspace is the first known Academic Makerspace in a university library on the African continent. The origin of Digital Scholarship in general and Digital Scholarship Centres in libraries are discussed. The overlap in functions of a Makerspace and a Digital Scholarship Centre is also illustrated. By combining the Library Makerspace services with that of a Digital Scholarship Centre, a comprehensive Digital Scholarship Centre in the Library can be established.

• Assessing the impact on the student experience of embedding information resources in the Guided Learner Journey at the University of Hertfordshire

  Helen Singer and Jane Bilson explain how the University of Hertfordshire followed ‘Guided Learner Journey’ principles by embedding resources in their VLE using the Talis Aspire reading list system and their assessment of how this has affected the student experience at the University.

• UX Made EZ: An Agile Approach to Testing a Digital Collection

  Kathryn Gucer provides a case study describing her experience in designing and conducting usability testing of a subject-based digital collection at the National Agricultural Library: the Animal Welfare Act History Digital Collection. While information professionals in libraries increasingly express a need for conducting flexible, low-cost, in-house usability testing on their digital collections, little literature exists addressing this need. This article speaks directly to readers among these groups and offers them a model for developing their own user tests based on Steve Krug’s Rocket Surgery Made Easy and, more broadly, on Agile methodology.

• Figshare Fest 2018

  Dan Towns provides us with a report from Figshare Fest 2018, attended by a range of institutional repository and research data managers from across the world.

• Educause 2018

  Richard Goodman gives a conference report from Educause 2018 held in Denver, Colorado, USA, a vast conference looking at the breadth of technology available for use in educational organisations and their libraries.

• REACH Project Opening Conference "Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe" 10th-11th of May 2018, Budapest, Hungary

  The opening conference of REACH project, will be organized by ELTE University, Eotvos Lora Tudomanyegyetem and it will take place in Budapest (Hungary), the 10th and 11th of May 2018, kindly hosted by the Hungarian National Museum.