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Check out the new look RASCAL

The RASCAL website (Research and Special Collections Available Locally) has been undergoing a major overhaul by a team at Queen’s University Belfast and the new version is now available. Information from the original RASCAL database has been transferred to a … Continue reading

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Update on the AGM

The keynote speaker at the AGM will be Dr Hazel Hall, Executive Secretary of the recently-established LIS Research Coalition. To register to attend the AGM contact Linda Houston.

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LISC 2010 AGM – The Research Landscape

The Annual General Meeting of the above Council which will be held on Wednesday 29 September in the new Antrim Library, 10 Railway Street, Antrim commencing with tea/coffee at 10.00 am and finishing with lunch. The programme will include a keynote … Continue reading

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… and still more discussion

Libraries are continuing to be a topic for discussion following the recent press coverage about falling visit numbers in England. (See the Daily Telegraph, the BBC and ITV’s Meridian News.) You can also see plenty of comment, including  from Tim … Continue reading

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Libraries in the news

There’s been lots of discussion about libraries today on the BBC. You can catch up on it by going to http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/5lnpi/5lnpi_20100824-0936a.mp3 or http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyoursay/2010/08/do_libraries_have_a_future.html where you can also add your comments

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Association of Information Managers (AIM) NI E-news – Issue 10 Welcome to aime Committee report Deep Web Searching Records Management Conference: online presentations available Community Media Council seeks Information Officer Advance notice of LISC AGM Follow aimni on Twitter Contacts Join … Continue reading

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Working for nothing?

Not the most attractive proposition maybe, but Bronagh McCrudden’s presentation “Would you work for free?” won the Best Paper award at the recent New Professionals Conference 2010 where the network for new professionals, LISNPN, was also launched. Bronagh is now … Continue reading

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MLA to be wound up by 2012

DCMS has just announced that the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the Advisory Council on Libraries (for England) and the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel are all to be abolished. MLA has already issued a statement pledging “a smooth and … Continue reading

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Network for new professionals in the LIS sector

Thanks to Bronagh McCrudden for alerting me to LISNPN, a network launched earlier this month for professionals new to the library and information sector, normally anyone who has entered the profession through work or study in the last decade or … Continue reading

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Digital Content Quarterly

Follow this link to find the third issue of Digital Content Quarterly from the Strategic Content Alliance. This issue focuses on those digital projects, initiatives and services that provide ‘best practice’, positive examples and opportunities for emulation in increasingly austere … Continue reading

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