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 2008 Volume 6(3)

Issue contents

• Conference: Presidential Address
  Alan Hasson demands your energy and involvement to do justice to our professional past.
  
  
• Electric Connections 2008
  Lisa McLaren reports on the annual event.
  


• Film review
  CILIPS and the Career Development Group Scotland presented a screening of the The Hollywood Librarian in May. Gavin Stuart gives us his opinion of it.
  
  
• Watershed moments
  Tony Ross and Richard Fallis muse on coming full circle, the benefits of attending conferences and the competitiveness of current job-seeking.
  
  
• You can go anywhere too
  Isabel Hood and Amanda Quick offer tips on how to make the most of CPD, the subject of their conference session ‘Regenerating Your Career: the Timelord’s guide to CPD’.
  
  
• Thriving not just surviving
  “Inspire and Transform: regenerating services”, CILIPS Conference, 3-5 June, Peebles. Judy Dobbie reports.
  
  
• Make it happen
  Work together and communicate are the messages Amina Shah gleaned from an inspirational event.
  
  
• Talking about books
  Val Phillips, Senior Library Assistant at Inverclyde Libraries, Greenock attended the “Talking to Readers about Books” session at CILIPS Annual Conference.
  
  
• We have the remedies

Joanna Ptolomey says it is important for the profession to emphasise the evidence of our impact on health information – and other sectors.


• Talking to London
  Brian Osborne looks at structure and the relationship with the UK-wide body in his third article on the history of our professional organisation.
  
  
• Literature brought to life

Kathryn Penfold experiences famous literary figures brought to life during a trip to the impressive John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland.


• Coming home

Colin Will has good news about the StAnza festival – and achieves a lifelong ambition.

Information Scotland Vol. 6(3) June 2008

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