Information Scotland The Journal of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland ISSN 1743-5471 Journal contents | About the online edition of the journal October 2003 Volume 1 (5)

Issue contents

• "Reader, I married him"
  Alastair Campbell ponders the ever-increasing range of library activities.

• Inside and out
  A new Assistant Director at SLIC/CILIPS thrives on her varied workload.

• Do you know what I mean?
  Anne Noble and Rhona Arthur attended e-Lit 2003, the international conference on IT literacy, and concluded that more convergance of thinking would be a start.

• "Friendly and helpful and not too complicated"
  They range in age from 19 to 86, and North Ayrshire has 61 of them. Paul Cowan describes a remarkable scheme in which many people are willing to give of their time freely to help others onto the information superhighway.

• More than a librarian
  Dawn Bellamy describes how she tries to keep at the cutting edge in her dual-role job with an oil company.

• Stars for Strathclyde
  Alan Poulter gives an update of research at the University of Strathclyde, which is graded as of national importance for research in information and library management.

• Shut up and read
  Colin Will invites info about prison libraries; and offers coaching on public reading skills.

Information Scotland Vol. 1 (5) October 2003

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