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 December 2007 Volume 5(6)

Issue contents

• Sharing the good things
  Christopher Phillips has learnt to take time to appreciate all the opportunities met on a journey.
  
  
• Read and blog to succeed
  Ross McGregor describes the new ‘Read To Succeed’ Blog at James Hamilton Academy, Kilmarnock, where he is Librarian.
  
  
• Challenging access
  Karen Brown and Karen Macdonald report on the seventh annual E-books Conference.
  
  
• Space on the web
  The Perth College library team provides another roundup of useful websites.
  
  
• A little restraint, please, this is a library
  Tony Ross and Richard Fallis are going to write a regular column for Information Scotland. First, they have something to say about buildings.
  
  
• Working on air
  Kirsty Crawford describes how the new BBC Scotland building has placed library services (now the Media Management Department) at the heart of the production process.
  
  
• A learning curve
  The design of the new Learning Resource Centre at Edinburgh’s Telford College is flexible enough for it to accommodate changing student needs. Mark Glancy describes its success one year on.
  
  
• A new face for the public
  Edinburgh Libraries & Information Services Agency (ELISA) planned a festival of libraries for the public, Wendy Ball describes the difficult but successful process.
  
  
• All systems go
  Andrew Jackson continues his account of implementing a unified library management system for Scottish health libraries, going live in February.
  
  
• Standing down
  Brian Osborne has stumbled upon an excellent new subject for a book, and he tells us about his new series of articles for Information Scotland.

Information Scotland Vol. 5(6) December 2007

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