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 2007 Volume 5(5)

Issue contents

• Reflect and apply the best
  Christopher Phillips has learnt to take time to appreciate all the opportunities met on a journey.
  
  
• All round benefits?
  Jill Evans grills two sucessful Chartership candidates on what it has meant for their careers.
  
  
• Getting started
  Tony Ross and Richard Fallis have a blueprint for a successful career right from the start.
  
  
• Interview
  Chris Banks is the new Aberdeen University Librarian.
  
  
• Small acorns
  Isabel Hood urges members to grasp the opportunities of the Revalidation process as a building block in professional development.
  
  
• Content on the go
  Cumbernauld College grasped the potential of MP3/MP4 technology to create ‘learncasts’. Barbara Grigor describes the Innovation and Development-funded project.
  
  
• Positive intervention
  Digital content created in educational institutions should be shared more and stored better, and librarians should lead on this important issue, say Jackie Proven and John Casey.
  
  
• A systematic remedy
  A unified library management system for Scottish health libraries is mid-way through its ten-month implementation schedule. In the first of a two-part article, Andrew Jackson explains the background to this important project.
  
  
• Making an impact
  The i3 conference held in June explored the relationship and interconnections between information behaviour, information literacy and the impact of information. Konstantina Martzoukou reports.
  
  
• Writing with difficulty
  Colin Will on the importance of allowing everybody the right to their own writing.

Information Scotland Vol. 5(5) October 2007

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