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Dearing Report: we all know about one recommendation of the Committee's report, but what about the rest of it? There's plenty to talk about there for the profession, says Roddie Shepherd.

Unobtrusive testing: how do you test the response which meets customers as they use the service? Evelyn Jarvis and Terry Kendrick report on the 'unobtrusive' methods employed in recent research in Northamptonshire.

Job exchanges: what is the difference between Loughborough and Southern California? Deborah Stanley and Jack Cooper, who swapped their jobs in university libraries for nine months, make the comparison.

Community Initiative Award: the shortlisted projects for 1997.

Aerospace information:
no single organisation in the UK provides specialist co-ordination of aerospace information but now Cranfield University is setting out to show what can be done.
Debby Raven reports on plans for a National Aerospace Centre,
and more.

Archives: and what's the difference between a library and an archive search room? The main answer, in the London Metropolitan Archives was 'a wall'. So they pulled it down. Helen Atkinson describes the change it made.

Training: some tips on the special skills of project management from David Cleeton and Ron Rosenhead.

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