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 April 2008 Volume 6(2)

Issue contents

• At a point full of potential
  Two interesting events cause Alan Hasson to see the increasing importance of our skills.
  
  
• SHEDL for Scotland
  Tony Kidd reports on the progress of SHEDL and ppossibilities for the future
  


• Like something almost being said...
  Tony Ross and Richard Fallis take stock of their position and also the wider career of librarianship – and how people arrive at the profession.
  
  
• How web2.0 tools work
  If you are wary of Wikis or baffled by blogging let Celia Jenkins share what she has learnt at a recent CILIPS workshop led by consultant Karen Blakeman.
  
  
• Colleagues overseas
  Margaret Forrest reports on an IFLA Section meeting in Paris.
  
  
• House of reading.
  Scottish colleaguesvisit ‘LesArt’, the Berlin Centre for Children’s and Youth Literature, on a Study Trip
  
  
• Non-stop development
  Brian Osborne looks at Education & Professional Development in his second article on the history of our professional organisation.



• Could we reach further?
  Prison libraries in Scotland serve one of the hardest to reach user groups. Library professionals have a lot of work to do in developing services for them, says Alan Stanley.
  
  
• Instilling skills for life

Cathy Kearney sets prison libraries in Scotland in context, outlining the hard work going on, which has a particular emphasis on education and information literacy.


• Shared developments

New Zealand-based Bill Macnaught brings news about great steps they are taking in professional development and other issues they share with Scotland.

Information Scotland Vol. 6(2) April 2008

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