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 2008 Volume 6(5)

Issue contents

• 100 not out – celebrating 100 years
  Alan Hasson says we should use the CILIPS Centenary to stake our claim on the future.

• E-books: a new chapter begins?
  Will e-books bring a revolution or more of the same, ask Kathleen Menzies and Richard Fallis.
  

• Aiming Higher
  Jill Evans pays tribute to colleagues coming and going in the academic field.
  
  
• NLS...on tour
  In September NLS enjoyed a third successful three-day roadshow at the Carnegie Library in Ayr, after previous successes in Perth (2007) and Aberdeen (2006).
  
  
• Better choice, better readers
  Celia Jenkins is a ‘whichbook reader’, and here she describes what this means and why the book choice site is such a good idea in reader development.
  
  
• Out of the shadows
  There’s nothing like CILIP’s Carnegie and Greenaway Medals to get young people involved in reading, as Agnès Guyon explains.
  
  
• Books for a better world
  If you are looking for an ethical, easy and profitable way to clear out unwanted books, a US organisation is setting up in Edinburgh to serve just this purpose in the UK.
  
  
• Reading is aloud
  Lillian Downie from Brechin High School in Angus describes how a successful class book group works.
  
  
• An illustration of success
  Picture books open up a rich seam of creativity in children of all ages, which is why the Dundee Picture Book Award is such a great idea. Moira Foster and Stuart Syme explain.
  
  
• Semantic web to social tagging
  The annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group took place 3-5 September at Strathclyde University.
  
  
• Gripping performance
  Alan Jones reports on the SIBMAS Congress, which explored saving performance culture.
  
  
• Defining moments
  We continue the series on the history of CILIPS and the SLA by the late Brian Osborne. Here he looks at key moments that have shaped the professional organisations in Scotland.
  
  
• The conversation continues
  
Colin Will says goodbye to Information Scotland readers – catch up with him on his blog.

Information Scotland Vol. 6(5) October 2008

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