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9 days ago by Tom Roper

Andy Powell tweeted, tongue in cheek, when he discovered that CILIP were running a training course on Twitter for Librarians: good grief... do #cilip really run a twitter course? - http://tinyurl.com/mxabo3 - speaks volumes methinks If the course were to teach people how to Twitter, then I quite agr ...

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10 days ago by Jupetong

In the second year of their three-year sponsorship deal with CILIP, the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society’s (ALCS) support has enabled CILIP to introduce major developments to the Medals shadowing scheme website. These developments provide improved networking for shadowing groups who are now a ...

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10 days ago by Andy Powell

I'm just back from giving a 30 minute "Twitter for idiots" tutorial for one of our senior management team here at Eduserv. Note that the title isn't intended to be offensive - in fact, he chose it - but it certainly sums up the level of what I had to say. It reminds me that yesterday I tweeted rathe ...

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10 days ago by Bookstart Bear

Harris finds his feet by Catherine Rayner has won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2009. Read our review of Harris finds his feet.

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11 days ago by Bookstart Bear

How many times have you seen an injured bird lying in the road? Have you sympathised but quickened your pace or stopped to see if you could help? In this beautiful book tiny Will begs his mother to bring a stranded pigeon home to convalesce. Graham’s cartoon strip style is almost wordless, but the p ...

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12 days ago by Bookstart Bear

Continuing with our Kate Greenaway selection, after a short hiatus, it’s a real treat to be including the final instalment of Oliver Jeffer’s Boy trilogy. This time the Boy manages to fly all the way to the moon where he meets an alien. The Boy endeavours to help him to find his way home but life ha ...

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12 days ago by Tom Roper

A few days without posting leaves a backlog: Royal Ascot: none of my selections for Friday won; I made no selections on Saturday, as I was sailing Alan Gibbons and the Campaign for the Book are on the front page of the Library and Information Gazette, which is now freely available on the CILIP websi ...

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17 days ago by library2.0

Firstly, i'm off to Seville with my Girlfriend for a long weekend today and taking no phone, ipod or internet. We have one day around the town on friday and a wedding saturday, but it will be nice to get away. Secondly, my contract was extended for a year and being moved to a new department. Thirdly ...

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24 days ago by Alan Gibbons

Wirral inquiry: Bob did the job CILIP members: you got your money’s worth. Bob McKee played a blinder, and all the library users I talked to said what a good job he did. He explained that CILIP’s brief is the public interest, & that’s why we had asked for DCMS intervention way back in January. He ha ...

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26 days ago by Jennie

As mentioned in CILIP Gazette...or Update (my memory sucks!) the Open University has launched a new course for "information professionals": "The Evolving Information Professional: challenges in a digital world" is an online course,. available to begin studying at any time. The blurb says: This cours ...

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