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 August 2008 Volume 6(4)

Issue contents

• Where we stand
  Alan Hasson urges you to take part in the debate about CILIPS’ relationship with the UK body.



• Web2.0 mullet of tomorrow?
  Don’t rush to embrace what appears to be new without thought, or you might end up looking foolish, say Tony Ross and Richard Fallis.
  
  
• Aiming Higher
  Jill Evans attends the SWOP event "From Parliament Square to Holyrood"
  
  
• Energy and quality
  Jill Evans reports on a busy round of meetings and conferences in the academic sphere.
  
  
• Advocating information literacy
  The Scottish Information Literacy Project has just been awarded substantial new funding. John Crawford and Christine Irving give an update on what it has achieved so far.
  
  
• Progress at colleges
  The 2003 evaluation toolkit for college libraries is being updated. Cathy Kearney explains.
  
  
• Centenary
  The late Brian Osborne looks at how the association has worked with the legislators, in the last article he wrote on the history of CILIPS and the SLA.
  
  
• Obituary: Brian D. Osborne
  Written by Alan Reid and Colin Will
  
  
• The waiting game
  Neil Paterson can sympathise with anyone waiting to take up their first professsional LIS post, but he’s doing all he can in the meantime.

Information Scotland Vol. 6(4) August 2008

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