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 June 2006 Volume 4(3)

Issue contents

• Skills for the future
  Ivor Lloyd pinpoints Information Literacy as the key role for today’s profession.
  
  
• From a distance
  Jill Evans reports on how SCURL members are supporting new residents and developing the knowledge economy.
  
  
• Dundee Central Library Drug and Alcohol Project
  A project funded by the the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) 2005/6 Innovation and Development Fund.
  
  
• Falkirk Homebound Users Online Access
  A project funded by the the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) 2005/6 Innovation and Development Fund.
  
  
• Help Yourself to Learning – Scottish Borders
  A project funded by the the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) 2005/6 Innovation and Development Fund.
  
  
• Solo from scratch
  A project funded by the the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) 2005/6 Innovation and Development Fund.
  

• Wonders never cease
  Derek Law introduces the work being done by ‘Making Wonders’, an impressive and carefully focused project in Malawi.
  
  
• Branching out
  Norma McDermott outlines how Irish libraries have been given a great chance to present to a national forum their case for combating social exclusion.

• Employability skills
  The School Libraries Group (Scotland) ran a Training Day on Information Literacy recently Susan Appleby reports on how it updated librarians about current issues.
  
  
• Sushi, chips and poetry pamphlets
  Colin Will says libraries should do more to support their local poets.

Information Scotland Vol. 4(3) June 2006

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