NEWS
Public: £80m Community Libraries programme launched.
NHS: licence letters cause copyright worries.
Intellectual property: BL launches its manifesto.
Book supply: Consortium deals blow to MLA plan.
KM: personal networks are the key at PwC.
Information literacy: teachers and LIS take different views.
Open access: LIS roles lost and found.
Copyright: system stifles scholarship, says British Academy.
MLA Board: ‘Radical’ Ezra joins.
Search: Google vs. Ask.com.
Children’s services: national offer beefs up local profiles.
Reader development: Small is Beautiful book project.
Social exclusion: Cabinet unit ignores culture.
CILIP: Council report.
Copyright: new OS maps agreement.
INTERVIEW
New roles for information professionals in the NHS: an interview with Dr Stephen Singleton on the crucial role of NHS information services.
ONLINE
Online Information 2006: key speakers at this important annual event give a preview of their topics.
FEATURES
The Voice of community information: new software gives librarians an enabling role between communities and local authorities, says Helen Leech.
SuperBook – planning for the e-book revolution: Chris Armstrong et al on a new study looking at the potential of the e-book for teaching and learning.
Librarians need standards: Haynes and Hopkinson with a useful overview of categories of LIS standards and guidelines.
Improving data quality: Beth Jacaruso provides some practical advice.
Love Libraries – creating a fresh image: how the campaign to help public libraries improve and promote their services to readers is proceeding, by Miranda McKearney.
IFLA – nothing less than a lifeline: Helen Brazier reports from this year’s international conference in Seoul.
COLUMNS
Are you Managing? and Clipboard return next month.
Company Club: Annabel Colley
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
New frontiers: Adrian Dale & Anne Goulding
Soapbox: are cataloguing & classification (by any other name) truly back in fashion, ask Christine Goodair and Anne Welsh.
Updated: 12 October 2006