CILIP | April 2002 : Library + Information Update

News

DCMS: new vision to herald libraries review.
HE: Ingenta buys Heron.
Digital preservation: dire warnings.
BL: truth about microfilm.
Equal opportunities: more duties.
People's Network: public libraries excelled, says NOF.
Public Library Standards: many 2004 targets will be missed.
Public libraries: what users want.
Soapbox: get involved!
Databases: Cornucopia adds library collections.
PLR: CILIP view.
Book supply: more firms go under.
Early years: Bookstart reprieved.
Access: talking web pages.
International: librarians remember Dag Hammarskjöld in NY.
E-government: progress slows.

Columns

Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Just a minute...: Bernard Naylor
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
Profile: Vicky Buser
Soapbox: John Welford
Workplace Briefing: Lyndsay Rees-Jones

Opinion

Classification: are we overdoing it? Simon Jones believes in making things simpler for the user.

Features

The digital information consumer: David Nicholas et al. Checking out company information: Manny Cohen -more to it than the Stock Exchange.

In fair Dublin city: Paul Sheehan on Dublin City University's new Library.
Paying for e-information in Scandinavia: Jens Thorhauge.
Cultural revolution: John Pateman's strategy at Merton.

eCRM through your website: Jennifer Rowley.
Chuck out your e-chintz: Christopher Pressler on websites.
West Lothian wires up: George Kerr.
Talking automated renewals: via mobile phones, by Rose Kenyon and David Eckersley.