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NEWS
Public: controversy over new stock supply/efficiency report.
Info literacy: Jisc ‘i-skills’ row.
Privacy: libraries ‘centres for terrorism training’ claim.
Law: ‘catastrophic blow’ warning.
Response to Select Committee: where’s the money?
Health: employers failing nurses’ needs.
Digitisation: MLA seeks licensing scheme as costs mount.
Social inclusion: IPPR’s manifesto for digital Britain. Buildings: Brighton’s stylish library shortlisted for two awards.
Reader development: prison group is best in UK.
Public: keen to multiply your capital funding 30-fold?
Institutional repositories: Elsevier challenges Google.
BL: Lynne Brindley describes ‘seismic shift’.
Metadata: new software helps government site re-tagging.
Conservation: work begins on BL Centre for Conservation.
MLA: ‘peer review’ assessment finds ‘significant impact’. Reader development: Blind Date site matches ideal books.
Public: new Libri report turns guns on librarians.
Umbrella conference: highlights from CILIP’s biennial gathering.
FEATURES
The Children’s Act: what it means for public services: John Pateman.
Leading a transformation: How did Leicestershire find £5m for a refurb? Margaret Bellamy and Ernie White explain.
A partnership for learners and citizens: with Ufi Chief Executive Sarah Jones.
A new start for Wigan: consultants provided new
direction, say Ian Bancroft and Anna Salaman.
The graduates of tomorrow: Luke Tredinnick reports from London Met’s latest Employer’s Forum.
How do users experience digital information environments?: develop strategies for managing the variability that your users experience, says Jennifer Rowley.
COLUMNS
Are you managing? Ian Snowley
Clip Board: Edward Dudley
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Just a minute... Bernard Naylor
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
Opinion: Elizabeth Chapman writes to Ken Livingstone
Updated: 07 November 2005