CILIP | May 2004 : Library + Information Update

Features

Exchanging jobs: Jonathan Tindale swapped his government information work for a rural public library in New Zealand, via Libex.

Doing the business in the city: marketing London's specialist library, by Marianne Howell.

Weblogs and RSS in information work: Ian Winship looks at what is on offer.
Have you thought of blogging? Share professional knowledge with a do-it-yourself blog, says Paul Pedley.
Developing a needs-based service: John Pateman.
Teenagers - where do we start? First of two articles by John Vincent and Jerry Hurst.
Welcome to your library: Helen Carpenter on a joint project by five authorities to serve London's refugees and asylum-seekers.

Achieving single sign-on access: Ben Wynne and Carol Shergold explain how the University of Sussex wove two systems into one.

News

Libraries Change Lives: this year's award winners.
CILIP Qualifications Framework: what members think.
Annual PL reports: DCMS verdict.
Cymal starts up.
ICT: US 'People's Network' threat.
Family learning: now it's a week.
People's Network: story so far.
Chatrooms: mother fights library.
Jisc: 2004 national conference.
Digitisation: slide licence soon?
Piracy: more haste, less speed?
Iraq: undoing the damage.
International: Europe, Africa.
Archives: BL's £10m rescue task.
Lords debate libraries: former minister asks for more funds.
Publicity: army library's Big Read.
Children: sure start, fun reads.
Social exclusion: new blog, new research project.

Profile

Shelagh Levett: high-profile public librarian.

Columns

Clip Board: Edward Dudley.

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