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JISC Supplement - Libraries of the Future

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Latest postings:
Ban unique views as website metric, says usability guru Neilsen
Public libraries - surprise!
From swine flu to CILIP 2.0 Manifesto?
Public libraries: Swindon hoo-ha
Public libraries - Wirral's fate steps closer
CILIP 2.0 open session live blog here (from 2.30pm)
Live blogging CILIP 2.0 open session - join in from 2.30pm today
Public libraries: huge row brewing?
'Alpha Search Buries the Ref Desk' (from LIS News)
Murray-Rust on Open Access: 'What if Google eats scientific researchers’ lunch?'
Is intellectual property dead?
Public libraries: more time to have your say...
Public libraries: Andy acts at last!
Latest issue of 'Update': have your say here!
Weekend reading inspiration!
BL's Commons digital archiving coup
Phil Bradley talks Twitter in April Update
Stop talking to each other, start talking to the media, or expect more bad headlines
Public libraries: Lyn Brown talks to Unison
Public libraries: what did Ed say, anyway?
Ed Vaizey is watching!
KM disappoints again - in Top 25 management tools survey
Public libraries – have your say!
Social websites harm children's brains - warns Prof Susan Greenfield
'10 ways your public library can save you money' - from MLA
Bible on top shelf - 'sop to Muslims' claims Daily Mail
Professional ethics beat bankrupt banking
100 social media projects - how to share 'Library 2.0' inspiration?
Stop bashing IT companies for civil service project management failures
‘Libraries Change Lives’ – in a recession?
Bit part for libraries in JISC’s mega-model of the scholarly information chain?
Recession boosts library use (TV + radio coverage)
CILIP Council declares Wirral library cuts plan 'a serious concern'
Author predicts ‘the end of the culture of the book’
Dyslexia a 'cruel fiction' - to cover up bad teaching of reading, says MP
Reading: the recession-busting solution to boys' educational under-performance?
Aspiring authors outed (Elspeth visits Career Development Group)
New Unison report shoves foot in public libraries door
How to get the most out of Exalead (beat Google?) - Phil Bradley
How to train staff for 'Library 2.0'
Does Ed Balls know what’s going on?
Allow age-banding - or risk confining child-readers to a middle class ghetto
Libraries should have huge role in NEET agenda!
What is your leadership maturity stage? (CILIP in London)
'PR 2.0' + promoting your info service (my presentation to CLSIG)
'Controversy not allowed in libraries'
Fears FT librarians loss will hit quality
What the DCMS really wants...
Public (library) lashing for Burnham!
'World Names Profiler' - Phil Bradley's site of
the month
'Staggering' library book thefts (BBC News)
Government ‘modernisation review’ to bring libraries
into 21st century
'Enough is enough!' says Lyn Brown MP
Preserve 'the essential ethos of libraries' (Vaizey on
DCMS review)

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