NEWS
Public: Analysis of Conway Report on 10 library authorities referred to CILIP for alleged falling standards, plus follow-up action.
MLA: Poet Laureate Chair chooses libraries as his focus.
Local authorities: Unison strike.
CILIP Council: CPD scheme resolves revalidation issue. Newspapers: Murdoch winds down library. Controversial stock: responses raise self-censorship fears.
Knowledge management: Is KM dead? Knowledge sharing: Learning & Skills Council under fire in leaked report.
Health: response to Hill Report. Surveillance: CILIP survey highlights police and security service activity.
Internet Librarian International: preview.
Digital Age: Digital consumers – book and briefing.
Olympics: Gearing up for Cultural Olympiad.
Web 2.0: Institutional Web Management Workshop 08 report.
Public libraries: guide to new landscape.
CILIP Council: full report.
FEATURES
RDA: a cataloguing code for the 21st century: Ann Chapman asks whether Resource Description and Access is the new cataloguing code we need.
‘Like a light going on’: the Local Living Library project: Linda Constable and Kevin Harris explain how
borrowing a Goth, a nun or an ex-coal miner can be a great way to learn, converse and share life experience.
Are you an entrepreneur?: Siân Lambert and Jennifer Rowley ask if entrepreneurial traits can survive in the public sector.
A partnership with young people: Claire Styles, Liz Roberts and Ruth Harrison talk about the Reading Agency’s new youth innovation programme.
Information science: a waning discipline with a key legacy? Alan Gilchrist and Eugene Garfield talk about the history, legacy and prospects of information science as the Journal of Information Science celebrates 50 years.
COLUMNS
Clip Board: Edward Dudley
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield
NYR Update: Michele Jones on the National Year of Reading
Opinion: Organisations need information managers – are we ready? asks Martin White.
REGULARS
Interviews: Emily Gravett, Kate Greenaway Medal winner, and Philip Reeve, Carnegie Medal winner, talk to Update about Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears and Here Lies Arthur.
LIS Talk: Matthew Mezey
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Updated: 15 August 2008