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Info@UK December edition is now available from the address below.
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Info@UK - is your guide to major UK Information Society developments and
news. The bulletin is compiled by the Information Management Research
Institute, University of Northumbria on behalf of the British Council and is
designed primarily to meet the information needs of British Council staff.
However we recognise that it will be of interest to a wider audience and are
happy to share Info@UK with you.
This month's headlines....
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
UK Online centres under threat
4
New DCMS strategy for libraries
4
Move to extend legal deposit to include electronic publications
4
Data sharing in the public sector - an issue
4
eEnvoy pledges 'enhanced' e-government target
5
Microsoft open source code to UK government
5
ID cards under fire
5
Government report on digital divide in deprived areas
6
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
WIPO summit in China
6
UN's Decade of Literacy programme
6
Latest world news on the digital divide
7
EU DEVELOPMENTS
eEurope 2002 Action plan success
8
Commission urges Europe to move to broadband
8
EC proposes new agency for cyber security in Europe
8
INTERNET RESOURCES
New UNESCO UN Literacy Decade web site launched
8
Freedom of Information / Data Protection discussion list
9
UNESCO Information Society Digital Library
9
A library events web site
9
World Bank's eLibrary
10
'Your Voice in Europe'
10
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
UNESCO discusses development of open source software
10
NEW PUBLICATIONS
The People's Network: a turning point for public libraries
11
Web of Deception: misinformation on the Internet
11
Digital Dilemmas & Solutions for Today's Librarians
12
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Second annual eGovernment summit
12
The JISC conference
12
eGovernment UK Conference
13
Building a Knowledge Framework: Practical Taxonomy Design and Application
13
Challenges and opportunities for library and information professionals
13
Internet Librarian International conference 2003
14
Culture: from information to knowledge: the role of culture in the knowledge
based society
14
2003 Information Resources Management Association, fourteenth
annual international conference
14
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2003
15
eLit2003: The second international conference on Information and IT Literacy
15
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
15
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Selling the benefits of library and information services in a cost-conscious
world 16
Freedom of Information
16
Creating & managing information pages for the world wide web: getting
started 16
Introduction to the Internet
17
APPOINTMENTS
New appointment for Resource
17
New EBLIDA Director
17
...AND FINALLY...
Return of the Domesday Book
18
First lady announces increased funding to address shortage of librarians
in the USA
18
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