NEWS
Recruitment industry: Idox to downsize TFPL.
Advocacy: Lyn Brown MP takes up key position.
Intellectual property: Gowers review broadly welcomed.
Open access: ‘apocalypse now’ for journal publishers?
Professional qualifications: CILIP mission statement.
LIS research: Brian Perry memorial event builds agenda. Stock: software speeds weeding of classics.
Children’s books: Gordon Brown’s Christmas gift.
Jisc: new mutual trading company seeks better content deals.
Public sector information: OFT slams government.
Lisu: children’s issues up, the last annual statistics show.
Online Information: conference report.
FEATURES
Breaking barriers to safeguard sound: Michel Merten on Memnon’s partnership with the BL.
I am Cataloguer, hear me roar! Anne Welsh and Penny Robertson.
Why bother to work together?: how to avoid stepping on toes in partnership working, by David Chamberlain.
Breaking the mould: the study centre approach: Kate Gardner.
Developing reference services in the electronic age: Andrew Walmsley describes a project set-up.
Boxes, boundaries and sacred cows: Simeon Moore on what can be learnt from industry business models.
Convincing people to join: Katharine Schopflin
Taking stock of convergence: John Akeroyd looks at the rationale for merging IT and LIS in higher education.
Fifteen hundred years of libraries: Peter Hoare stresses the importance of looking at libraries today in context.
Large print books: what the users think: John Feather and Sam Nikoi.
Upgrading 30 libraries with a £5m budget: Margaret Bellamy on squeezing every drop out of each pound.
COLUMNS
Clip Board: Edward Dudley
Company Club: Annabel Colley
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
Updated: 24 January 2007