NEWS
Local government white paper: power to the people? Health: is Google a diagnostic tool?
Equal access: disability deadline looms.
Library management systems: new system, new era?
Freedom of Information: fee changes will ‘rip heart out’.
Leadership: funding runs out for national training.
PLA Conference: ‘incredible opportunity’ for libraries.
Creativity: Overdue author asks what we think.
Internet Librarian International: ‘digital Florence’.
Tony Benn lecture: ‘Information is never damaging.’
CILIP Members’ Day: ‘CILIP is worth fighting for.’
Open access: Wellcome funds create new role.
FEATURES
Meeting and greeting new students: Helen Finlay and Dilys Young on Leeds Met’s new service.
Researching pupils’ attitudes to school libraries: Andrew K. Shenton on the challenges involved.
Developing student self-assessment of information skills: the Learning Resources Action Research Group on what they have learned from their research exercises.
Why researching global market data is not for amateurs: Marius Dundulis talks to Elspeth Hyams about Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database.
The need for evidence-based stock management: George Kerr says that systems suppliers need to enable access to evidence in LMSs.
Using metadata to organise an online collection: David Bruce.
Credible and credited: the rise of media librarians: Richard Nelsson of the Guardian.
Partnership in practice: the NW reader
development scheme: Jane Mathieson.
COLUMNS
Are you managing? Ian Snowley
Clip Board: Edward Dudley
Company Club: Annabel Colley
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
Opinion: where are professional ethics in decision-making? asks Karen Thornton.
Updated: 08 March 2007