Hey Matthew,
I read your article of course. It was very good. I went straight to my local library to borrow a few titles. They didn't have any. I put an order in for one, but now think I've ordered the wrong one, Don't Make me Think.  The Fifth Discipline and Ten Steps to a Learning Organization would be good.  We should have a staff library we could borrow from.
Catch you later
Michael
ps I'm reading the Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman, excellent.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Mezey 
Sent: 20 July 2004 15:41
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Subject: New Update contents + online articles - don't miss it!


Hi everyone,

Below is the contents list for the new issue of Library and Information Update
magazine, along with URLs for the articles and column that we have put online this
month.

Also below is Elspeth Hymans' Editorial for this issue.

I wrote the long article 'A Reflective Librarian's Bookshelf', so do read it and let me
know what you think, when you have a spare moment!

Matthew Mezey
(News Editor, Update)

Ps And do please send me your LIS news for next month's issue. Serials Price
Increase will be published in the September Update.

020 7255 0584

**Features**

Summer reading: a selection from some of CILIP's Councillors.
The five purposes of metadata: David Haynes.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/julyaug04/article3julyaug.html
Metadata and the e-GMS: Liane Broadley.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/julyaug04/article4julyaug.html
Carnegie and Greenaway: flagships for the profession: Sharon Sperling.
A reflective librarian's bookshelf: Matthew Mezey.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/julyaug04/article2julyaug.html#one
Don't get by, get on at Croydon: Fiona Tarn.
Information flows and the Black community: Karen Chouhan & Bobby Miles.
Taking the drudgery out of book acquisitions: Update visits Dawson Books.
IDOX and the information continuum: Tony Burton and Noeleen Schenk.
'We're all doing Framework': Andrew Stevens and Sarah Wilkie.
From (and to) Russia with love: Andrea Barker.
Supporting informed health care: Caroline Plaice et al.
Building the Vital Link: Genevieve Clarke.

**News**
Carnegie and Greenaway: the winners, and shadowing success.
DCMS: report from libraries seminar, dubbed the 'crisis summit'.
Public: visionary report warns of image change danger.
Statistics: Latest Cipfa figures show visits hike.
Reader development: Demos report on 'creativity agenda'.
KM: Prusak, Snowden, Denning at KM UK conference.
RNIB: Gateshead an access winner.
People's Network: John Pateman on new PN impact report.
History: boost for Edzell study.
Iraq: science libraries rehab plan.
New Zealand: £8.5m trusted digital repository go-ahead.
Open access: latest developments.
BBC: Creative Archive progress.

**Conferences**
Seize the power: Ian Snowley at the US Medical Library Association.

**Opinion**
Pragmatism is not enough: Bob Usherwood.

**Columns**
Clip Board: Edward Dudley.
Internet Q&A: Phil Bradley.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/julyaug04/article1julyaug.html
Just a minute...: Bernard Naylor.
Mediawatching: Laura Swaffield.

Elspeth Hyams:

Questioning core values and purpose is part of the debate on how best to modernise
public libraries. This month the soul-searching went on.
Speaking at DCMS's seminar (long-planned but seen, thanks to timing, as a counter-
blast to the disastrous media coverage last month of Tim Coates's/Libri's Who's in
Charge?) Secretary of State Tessa Jowell delivered an unequivocal message.
Public libraries should be 'a test-bed for the public sector reform and modernisation
which is at the centre of our wider government policy,' she said.
'They are ideally placed to become again central points in local communities. But
they can only take back this role if they consult local people' (p. 3).
Think-tanks agree with the British Library's Jill Finney about the under-exploited
powerful brand of the public library. A new report by Ken Worpole for Cabe (p. 4)
gets down to brass tacks. It calls for a debate on what a library is, to inform planning
20 years from now. But it (and Birmingham City Council's Lin Homer, p. 3) is not sure
how best to attract children of the 'lost generation' - those who missed out on public
libraries.
Creative Reading, a new report from Demos, may have some answers. According to
chief executive John Holden (p. 6) public libraries are forgotten factors in the
creativity equation. This report stresses that reading stimulates creativity - and not
only in the arts. This helps achieve national ambitions. Libraries should involve
young people in stock selection and library design, offer work experience and
volunteer schemes, and make connections with arts centres, museums, archives
and theatres to form part of creative clusters.
MLA can show that the People's Network is bringing people into libraries, but a
report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds use of public access ICT sites by
the socially excluded still worryingly low (reports on p.10).
Cipfa figures indicate that public library use (but not book borrowing) is again rising,
up from the all-time low in 2001-02 (p.5). But we may not yet be out of the woods -
and what will happen to figures for visits if more public libraries start to charge for
use of the PN?
If there has been enough angst about fundamental principles, at least now it's
summer and time for creative reading. Some Council members have contributed
reviews, and Matthew Mezey a big cut-out-and-keep round-up of books for
professional development.
Our theme of the month is metadata - but there's much more besides.