NEWS
CILIP: staff restructure.
Health: call for libraries to integrate with mental health services.
Public: branch closures threat.
Stress: what stresses LIS staff?
LIS skills: LLUK consults.
Future vision: ‘Library 2.0’ salvation?
National Digital Library: BL and Microsoft announce partnership plans.
Statistics: glass is half empty/full...
BL: singles ‘Mingle’.
Digitisation: Lammy launches EU cultural ‘space’.
Public: new procurement model coming.
Books: Richard & Judy club.
Research support: Research Information Network launch.
User survey: battling preconceptions.
WSIS: Tunis take.
Online conference: ‘Web 2.0 culture war’ hysteria.
Press & PR Awards: success in so many sectors.
MLA: meet the new policy adviser, John Dolan.
CILIP: meeting the financial challenge, by Nigel Macartney.
CILIP: Staff changes to sustain CILIP, by Bob McKee. Plus Council report and draft Corporate Plan extracts.
Open access: new doubts.
Children: new statistics.
Carnegie and Greenaway: at the crossroads.
FEATURES
Interview: British Library chief Lynne Brindley.
**Information Literacy: issue theme**
Putting our own house in order: CILIP-accredited LIS courses, by Kerry Weller.
Learning in spite of being solo: Humeyra Ceylan.
It’s all about getting ‘A’s: Ross Todd hears how pupils in the US use info sources – with the help of their school librarian.
Information literacy in FE: Alexandra Stearn.
Begin at school: Christine Irving & John Crawford.
Information literacy development in Australia: Angela Newton & Debbi Boden interview Christine Bruce.
Raising the profile of information literacy in public libraries: Rónán O’Beirne.
Hot issues in the government sector: Sue Westcott.
Promoting special collections and archives: Katie Sambrook & Sue Donnelly.
Back to Africa: Helen Fallon set up an environment library.
Did it all go wrong from the start? Jim Francis looks at historical data on libraries in Northern Ireland.
COLUMNS
Are you managing?: Ian Snowley
Clip Board: Edward Dudley
Company club: Annabel Colley
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
New frontiers: Adrian Dale & Anne Goulding
Opinion: Bob Usherwood
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Updated: 26 January 2006