NEWS
British Library: Bill Gates launch extravaganza.
Public: budgets crunch time.
Education: IL breakthrough.
Open access: publishers unleash ‘pit bull’ on OA lobby.
CILIP/LiS Libraries Change Lives Award: shortlist.
MLA: leadership and Framework assessment reports launched.
Health: Clinical summaries and NLH 2.0 launched.
Health: Muir Gray stresses librarians’ strategic role.
World Book Day: new ideas promise a 10th-anniversary buzz.
Collaboration: London one card feasibility study.
Digitisation: £12m for HE partnerships.
Intranets: RSPB.
Schools: Lisu report reveals sector’s variety.
PL stock procurement: MLA’s next steps on Better Stock.
Government information: bonfire of websites planned.
Teenage services: Big Lottery funds Book Bars.
FEATURES
Developing the best blend? From blended
e-learning to blended learning: Barbara Allen.
Selling the benefits of your service: reassess your service in order to market it, says Fi Emberton.
Stock management: from off-the-shelf to tailor-made?: aligning what’s on offer to the customer profile of the library, with Steve Kettle and Richard Walkuski.
Now we are 36: the impact of age discrimination regulations on advertising jobs: CILIP Advice Team and Teresa Haskins.
Information literacy and the internet
generation: Peter Godwin applies cunning tactics to teaching information literacy.
IL and the petition to the Scottish Parliament: John Crawford and Christine Irving.
Slough – well fit: the Secret Slough Photography Project – Antonia Gray divulges all.
COLUMNS
Are you managing?: Ian Snowley
Boundary-spanning: Simeon Moore looks at how the public library service could be using ideas from the outside.
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
REGULARS
Interview: Kate Stanfield, Head of Knowledge Management at CMS Cameron McKenna.
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Updated: 21 February 2007