FEATURES:

Schools: Anthony Tilke reports on an LA survey which gives the first overall picture of the quality and extent of provision in secondary school libraries.

Marketing/Youth: early literacy projects are all the rage, but what extra steps need to be taken to attract children from other cultural backgrounds? Ayub Khan reports on some ground-breaking work in Birmingham.

Special libraries: how an important information service for the electricity industry made a successful transition from free to fee-earning.

Literature on the Web: we hear a lot about Books vs IT, but the WWW has significant potential in assisting in promoting and distributing literature. Margaret Kendall provides a comprehensive guide to online fiction.

School library services: Nick Chandler, Diane Tiernan and Pam Jones describe how Knowsley School Library Service and Liverpool Libraries saw mutual benefits in a joint arrangement.

Specialist groups: becoming the Career Development Group was more than a change of name for the Association of Assistant Librarians, says Pete Loewenstein.

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