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 2007 Volume 5(3)

Issue contents

• Compare and contextualise
  Christopher Phillips is learning a lot from his Presidential travels and relishes the exchange of ideas.
  
  
• Securing change through advocacy tools
  Chris Milne describes how it came about and discusses other avenues to be considered.
  
  
• Time for a skills review
  Periods of restructuring or refurbishment are a good time to reassess skills, writes Jill Evans.
  
  
• These governance changes will affect you
  Members, will be asked to vote on changes to the governance of CILIP at the AGM in October. Audrey Walker explains all.
  
  
• A change of viewpoint
  Two years ago Bill Macnaught made the move from Britain to New Zealand to an exciting new role safeguarding an important part of Maori culture and identity.
  
  
• A day of skills sharing
  An Open Day in Edinburgh used a variety of interesting formats to help professionals share skills and thoughts on the future of the profession, writes Christine Irving.
  
  
• Knowledge for practice
  Ian Watson explains how SCIE and SIESWE are working together to enable social care staff to access the knowledge they need.
  
  
• All about bees
  Una A. Robertson describes a unique library devoted to material about beekeeping.
  
  
• Gems of the Highlands and Islands
  The Perth College Library Team provides another roundup of useful websites – on Scotland’s rich special collections holdings.
  
  
• Rare Books in Scotland (RBiS)
  Dedicated to landmarks in printing
  
  
• A history of studying at Strathclyde
  The West of Scotland is celebrating 60 years of library studies. Paul Burton recounts how it has developed at what became the University of Strathclyde.
  
  
• The retreat
  Colin Will relishes space to write, and ponders whether web postings are “publication”.

Information Scotland Vol. 5(3) June 2007

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