CILIP | December 2003 : Library + Information Update

Features

Implementing the FOI Act: Are we ready, asks Duncan Simpson.

Next generation management: Simon Tanner on future skills.
Information to communication: Jackie Lord on the vital role of the Royal College of Nursing's library.
E-futures - N. Ireland's public libraries: Pearl Valentine.
Making IT happen: Philip Payne and Liz Waller on teaching students IT.

Plagiarism & the role of the library: Ruth Stubbings and Alan Brine discuss a growing problem.

Building a common information environment: Jisc can do it if we back it, says Philip Pothen.

Raising e-awareness in health: Alison Turner, Nick Rosen and Fran Wilkie network for NHS staff.
Health on the web: Barrie Gunter. All about Medway: Helen Leech.

Columns

Clip Board: Edward Dudley.

Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley.
Just a minute...: Bernard Naylor.
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield.

News

Wilip: Resource's key new vision for all libraries.
e-publications: historic extension to legal deposit.
Awards: Bournemouth Library wins.
Web: libraries link-up with Google.
Reader development: Bookstart funding boost.
Prisons: reprieve relief.
Health: NeLH trial highlights.
e-resources: £13m Culture Online project kicks off.
Access: the Big Audio Read.
Digitisation: ITN archive online.
Training: skills council takes shape.
National Archives: BBC's Domesday 'people's database' rescued.
AGM/Members' Day: full report.

Profile

Ros Byfield, Enfield Libraries.

Conferences

Dublin Core: Maewyn Cumming
Prison Libraries: Carole Bowe

Opinion

Digitisation is not e-NOF: Robin Yeates on content creation.