Delivery of public library services: Hounslow finalises plans for the first independent trust to manage a public library service. Prison libraries: launch of new guidelines.

Public libraries: users take over and keep a Bedfordshire library open. British Library: the users are in! So what do they think of it?

Lifelong learning: the Advisory Group on Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning is looking to revive the spirit of Chartism. Roddie Shepherd convinces them of the case for libraries.

National Libraries Week: business links, all-nighters and parachute jumps. The Great County Durham Library Challenge and Operating with Information.

Cuts: radical measures contemplated in what looks like the worst year yet. Matthew Mezey reports.

IT News: libraries in the US face legal challenges from both sides of the censorship lobby. BBC launches new literacy site. The third phase of eLib.

National Libraries Week: business links, all-nighters and parachute jumps. The Great County Durham Library Challenge and Operating with Information.

Copyright News: the new database directive and a meeting with the minister.

International Agenda: John Allred on open learning in Germany.

Election 97: the full results.

Mediawatching: are cartoons really dangerous to children's development, or is Martin Amis not fit to eat Bart Simpson's shorts?

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