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Front National sacks chiefs in France

Intelligent agents: are they after your job?


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Censorship: the confrontation between librarians and the local authority in the districts of France controlled by the Front National reaches crisis point. Freedom of information: what is the hold up? What are the issues?

Public libraries: Tory local authorities are making a stand on libraries. Plus Durham's bid for big lottery bucks and how the National Deaf Children's Society, supported by Swansea libraries got them for a collection relating to deaf culture.

Unesco: there has been some controversy in the press about the government's decision to rejoin Unesco. So why has the Library Association been campaigning for just such a move? Schools library services: the battle to make them statutory appears to have been lost. So what is now the key issue? Legal deposit: when is a book not a book?

Internet censorship: Reno v. ACLU: The
          CDA on Trial another lawsuit is initiated as civil rights organisations go to court over the rights of academics to view 'sexually explicit' material. IT and schools: report calls for urgent action.

Education news: how to get your library on the agenda of an Ofsted inspector plus the latest findings on education libraries and books in schools.

Books & publications: details of library success in the first round of Arts for Everyone lottery grants and news of the opening of the Centre for the Children's Book.

Library and Information Commission: the research strategy Plus the latest Heritage awards and the BL's purchase of the first map of Britain.


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