Edinburgh libraries will again be showcasing their services for young people at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. This year a Team Read promotion will be held in the children's book shop with craft activities and an appearance from Doctor Recommenda Book, who will be offering reading advice and issuing reading prescriptions. The Doctor will also be on hand at the Schools Gala Day on 26 Aug. An author outreach programme has been arranged to bring the best of the Festival to school groups within community libraries. Edinburgh's Bookstart team will also run extra Rhymetime sessions at the Festival. Added: 19 Aug
CILIP in Scotland (CILIPS) is holding a Centenary Dinner on Fri 24 Oct. The event will be held at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Edinburgh and all CILIPS members are invited to attend. The cost will be £45 per person and numbers are limited so early booking is advisable. More details can be found on SLAINTE events and bookings can be made online. The Scottish Library Association (SLA), the predecessor of CILIPS, was formed in Edinburgh in October 1908. To mark the Centenary, CILIPS has digitised images from the SLA News archive. A selection of these images has been made into a short video on the SLAINTE website and the others are displayed on photo sharing websiteflickr. Added: 14 Aug
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela on Fri 18 Jul, East Dunbartonshire Libraries ran a promotion of South African Fiction and African Women's Fiction. The promotion featured 49 titles, offering a broad selection of African and South African authors. The list included well-known titles, such as Prester John by John Buchan and The Story of an African Farm by Olive Shreiner, as well as popular modern authors Gillian Slovo and Barbara Trapido The most popular titles at the end of the promotion were Deon Meyer's Dead at daybreak and Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love which respectively accounted for 15% and 13% of total issues. The promotion achieved an average increase in issues of 22% for the titles concerned. A full report by David Kenvyn is available for download (pdf). Added: 4 Aug
Two Scottish councils have announced urban regeneration projects which will place libraries at the centre of the communities. In Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire the library will be part of a new health centre on Main Street, which will also include a registrar's office and Council First Stop Shop. The second building project will take place in Craigmillar, Edinburgh where a library, high school, supermarket and town square will be built over a 50-acre site. Work on the library could commence next year. Photo by Andrew Niddrie.Added: 1 Aug
To kick-start the Edinburgh Festival of Libraries, a Libraries Fair will take place on Sat 8 Nov. The Fair is intended to showcase event to raise the profile of library and information services in Edinburgh. Last year 40 services participated in the event, attracting 700 visitors throughout the day. Exhibitors are invited to book slots before Mon 18 Aug using the registration form. The event will be held at Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh between 10am and 4pm. All enquires should be addressed to the planning coordinator, Anne Donnelly e: anne.donnelly@ed.ac.uk. Added: 1 Aug
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has pledged £3 million to the proposed East Renfrewshire College, which will be formed by Reid Kerr, Cardonald, and Langside Colleges. The College is set to be built by East Renfrewshire Council at a location in Barrhead as a key part of regeneration in the area. A new community library will also be built on the site as well as an educational centre incorporating adult learning. Photo by emmar.Added: 1 Aug
West Lothian Council has been awarded GBP 10,000 to continue the Their Past, Your Future project based on personal experiences of the Second World War. The second phase of the initiative, titled West Lothian and the Forgotten War, will focus on creating an oral history of the war. The end product of the project will be a documentary film and a booklet. The project will be led by the museum service. The lottery funding was allocated by Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) from a total award of GBP 590,000 to develop Their Past, Your Future across Scotland. A further nine projects also received funding and full details are available on the MGS website. Added: 1 Aug
The full programme and booking form for the Mobilemeet held by the Scottish Branch and Mobile Group is now available in pdf or Word format. Grand Designs: Sustainable Services for the 21st Century will take place on Sat 6 Sep at Hopetoun House, South Queensferry. Added: 1 Aug
Information Scotland is the journal of CILIPS, which is published six times a year. The online version is usually made available around three weeks after the printed publication.
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The latest issue of TACIT, the newsletter of Edinburgh Libraries & Information Services Agency (ELISA) is now available. The current edition features an extended article on the information services within the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital. Added: 27 Aug
A JISC Collections initiative to provide Further Education colleges in England with access to a core collection of e- books has been extended to cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In response to this development, JISC Collections has launched an online survey to identify e-books of specific relevance to the Scottish curriculum. All FE practitioners are invited to participate in the consultation by completing the survey or sending informal comments or reading lists to Anna Vernon e: a.vernon@jisc.ac.uk. Added: 19 Aug
Children's author Alan Gibbons is working on a draft charter for Campaign for the Book as part of the 2008 Year of Reading in England and Wales. For more information; download the Campaign for the Book August 2008 Newsletter, check out Alan's blog or email him at: aagibbons@blueyonder.co.uk.
Added: 13 AugProfessor Sir Timothy O'Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed as the new chair of JISC from 1 Jan 2009, replacing Sir Ron Cooke. The appointment was announced by the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) on behalf of the UK funding bodies. Added: 5 Aug
Stockbridge Library in Edinburgh has recently re-opened following a major refurbishment programme. The GBP 400,000 makeover includes a learning centre with new computers, an improved community room and a gallery with coffee shop. A self-service system has also been installed. Added: 5 Aug
The Scottish Information literacy Project has received an award of GBP 41,598 from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The money will be used to restructure the recently piloted National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland), including the development of good practice exemplars. Other areas under review include the role of information literacy in the workplace and CPD activities for teachers. Added: 1 Aug
The latest issue of TACIT, the newsletter of Edinburgh Libraries & Information Services Agency (ELISA) is now available. The current edition features an extended article by Gillian Mapstone and her colleague, John Simmons, from the National Archives of Scotland, outlining the development of Scotland's Images, the new online picture library. Karen O'Brien also reviews a recent ELISA two-day copyright course. Added: 1 Aug
The July edition of the newsletter is now available. The 500 years of printing in Scotland celebration is being led by the Scottish Printing Archival Trust, the National Library of Scotland and Scottish Print. Added: 1 Aug
According to the Information World Review (IWR) Google is now inviting users to participate Knol, an online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. Unlike Wikipedia, however, Knol will display author's names and will feature multiple articles on the same topic. Knol has been in closed beta since it was announced in December 2007. Added: 1 Aug
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