CILIP | October 2003 : Library + Information Update

News

Framework for the Future: action plan outlines projects.
Wilip: Resource finalises all-sector plan.
FE: CILIP survey's grim conclusions.
Public: Surrey scotches rumour.
Disability: Guides and good ideas.
Research: new DCMS strategy.
Competencies: OECD reports.
People's Choice Awards: time to vote.
BL: remote users audit.
War on terror: librarians' 'hysteria' denounced.
Young people: summer success.
Health: London's link-up.
Public: the capital's catalogue.
Aid: new books lifeline for Ethiopia.
KM: EU competitiveness warning.
Virtual union catalogues: not so easy.
E-learning: new collaboration shows how to do it.

Columns

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

Conferences

Untangling intangibles: Ralph Adam on 'Accountability, competitiveness and productivity: understanding the value of intangibles in 21st-century organisations', a conference held at Cass Business School.

Features

Fanfare for music: P. Thompson.
Implementing Framework for the Future: Andrew Stevens.
No more ivory towers: Gillian Anderson on public/academic borrowing.

A new kind of worker': TFPL advisers assess the worth of information literacy skills to employers.

Whatever happened to the library schools? John Feather.
Rebuilding with Information Architecture: Eskins & Willson on new degrees at Manchester.
The BL reaches out: Hazel Dakers.
The ThamesPilot project: Zoe Albright takes a virtual trip down the Thames, courtesy of NOF.
Look back and wonder: Helen Fallon on VSO in Sierra Leone.
Dual-use libraries: do they work?: Sarah McNicol on opening up school libraries to the community.