Books on the internet: We hear a lot these days about 'Books vs IT', but, argues Don Watson, the resources on the Internet for readers and writers are growing all the time
Millennium Commission: Technopolis is longlisted, Information for All's Millennium Libraries doesn't make it, but the story's far from over.
Legal deposit: the nationals might think that it's all about archiving the Spice Girls, but we explore the real issues of extending the legislation.
Public Library News: what can we say,
it's cuts and more cuts.
NBA: the great and the good, well Auberon Waugh anyway, make the case for
the protection of the nation's literacy.
Charitable trusts: the first authority is already considering devolving its public library service to an independent body with charitable status. We report on Hounslow and its plans.
Industrial and commercial libraries: the LA's Industrial and Commercial Libraries Group celebrates 25 years.
Internet copyright: the advertising issues that underly the much publicised Shetland Times/News dispute over WWW links.
Academic News: South Bank and the links its new LRC is making with the community.
British Library: cuts at the BL are having damaging effects on small businesses.
Copyright: what are your rights to lend and rent to the public?
Literature News: Labour's Year of Reading; the Fringe Benefits project giving advice on 'under-bought' literature; the Arts Council's poetry 'green paper'.
Graphic novels:
it is ten years now since Art Spiegelman's Maus
and Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons introduced the term to the
British mainstream. Paul Gravett, Director of the Cartoon Art Trust and
a man who dreams frames and speech-bubbles, looks at the history of the
medium and argues 'graphic novels belong in your library too'.
Cyberculture:
after football, autobiography and literary erotica,
the latest publishing boom area is in books about the future.
Don Watson takes a tour through the territory and opts to join
the cross-media snowboarders rather than the print-bound skiers.
Computer books: the theory is all very well, but when you want
a book to teach you the nuts and bolts (or should we say the atoms and
electrons) of the Internet, where do you look? Richard Church resolves
the uncertainty principle.
Librarian as author: distinguished race relations librarian A. Sivanandan has just published his first novel with the newly formed Arcadia Press. Hazel Waters profiles a man whose work 'is known to have changed the whole climate of thinking on "race"'.
How the century lost its poetry: Peter Forbes, Editor of Poetry Review, argues that T. S. Eliot's famous claim that the poetry of our century must be 'difficult' has blinded us to a golden age. Plus the Poetry Society's guide to the core collection.
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