Online articles:

Continuing
Professional
Development

Mentoring:
reviewing recent developments

back on the agenda at Sheffield Hallam

essentials of good practice

forthcoming guidelines


Contents of other sections:


FEATURES


REVIEWS





NEWS

Year of Reading: the Spice Girls promoting literacy? The latest thoughts on the shape of the government's drive on the written word.Public library networking:more news on the LIS world's best kept secret. Plus Art at the British Library.



More cuts: confrontations between Unison and library managements in Lambeth and Bristol as staff and specialisms disappear. Co-operation: four authorities in the South West break new ground in IT sharing.

IT & Networking: a study into digitisation; plus Earl invites the public to Ask a Librarian on the Internet. General Household Survey: a temporary reprieve.

International news: making friends in Zimbabwe.

Open learning: the picture nationwide. Poetry on the Internet: Croydon breaks out in digital verse.

National Libraries Week: the country's leading writers of children's literature team up for Stacks of Stories an anthology of stories revolving around libraries. Literacy: Ready Steady Read, a new scheme which sees W.H. Smith putting £1.5m worth of books into deprived schools around the country.

Learning support: a new project focusing on the career development of graduates. Plus a new bid to form a National Training Organisation.

Books and publications: Poetry out loud for National Poetry Day; summing up the past hundred years in a single word; and a new collection of Bangladeshi poetry from Sunderland.


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