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NEWS
Subject librarians: academics spearhead job cut revolt.
Digitisation: furore slows $200m Google library project. Hurricane Katrina: coping with the damage and despair.
Records management: paper trumps digital storage.
PL funding: £750k ICT challenge fund launched.
Open access: LIS figures refute ‘journals will die’ claim. BBC: Reading and Writing campaign gears up for launch.
Public: recruitment crisis.
PFI: four library projects chosen.
Collections: first multilingual directory for Europe.
Public: RFID helps Essex with Gershon.
BL: new patents search.
Looked-after children: innovative projects gain funding.
E-books: first in new series from Facet Publishing.
Digital divide: another action plan emerges.
International: tsunami relief, US Patriot Act, Russian reading decline and more.
Public: shock low rating in national public services survey.
Adult learners: getting the image right.
Creativity: no thanks, say public service employers.
Curriculum: new directory highlights citizenship learning role.
FEATURES
Is digital content treated differently in law? Paul Pedley clarifies what you can and cannot do.
The promise of e-books: Barrie Gunter looks at the market.
Enquiry handling: new ways to teach old tricks: an online, modular approach with Chris Booty.
Fulfilling a yearning for e-learning?: Andrew Booth on fun, collaborative courses for NHS support staff.
Spreading a sense of place: digital content on ‘place’ via item-level searching, with Patricia McHugo.
Refocusing traditional roles: the Essex approach: Michele Jones.
Reaching socially-excluded young people: offering information on what to do in Southend, with Mandy Steel and Laurain Zialor.
COLUMNS
Company Club: Annabel Colley: views from the workplace.
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Just a minute...: Bernard Naylor
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
Opinion: Michael Clarke
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Updated: 07 November 2005