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THIS MONTH'S HEADLINES:
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Free books for under fives
ID cards - Home Office response to LSE report
Government response to Select Committee's report on public libraries
National Smartcard Project
Information Commissioner' s Annual Report
Management of government IT procurement
Libraries can help to 'make poverty history'
Switch to digital publishing by 2020
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Libraries Without Walls
World Summit Youth Award
The September Project
E-government toolkit for developing countries
African digital library survey
Conference on Electronic Imaging, the Visual Arts & Beyond
WSIS pre-conference on Libraries
US government to retain control of Internet servers
World Book Capital 2007
Measuring e-readiness
Conference on Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications
for Libraries
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Consultation on broadband access in Europe
Evolution of the digital divide
Radio programme on digital divide in Africa
EU DEVELOPMENTS
Improving communicating Europe
Data retention and information sharing to tackle terrorism
Faster wireless access to the Internet
European Parliament rejects software patents directive
Reform of music licensing on the Internet
MLA commitment to eEurope digitisation
eGovernment in the Member States of the European Union
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
Analogue to digital TV switchover trial
Web site browsers
Problems with assistive technology
Talking bus stops
e-Innovations
Access the court by phone
UK communications market
Oakgrove Millennium Community
The global networked readiness in education survey
Libraries impact project
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
Inspire
International Calendar of Information Science Conferences
Search engine for Brighton and Hove
The European Library on Mozilla/Firefox
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
Modernising with purpose
The library and information professional's Internet companion
The commercialized Web
Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance
What ICT?
Open source software
Spinning the Web
E-deliberation and local governance
Music and the Internet: Special Issue
APPOINTMENTS
Changes at the Laser Foundation
Emerald appoints International Library Advisers
New Chair of Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport
New Head of Library Policy to be recruited
New chair for All Party Parliamentary Group on Libraries and Information
Management
BL Chief Executive accepts permanent contract
AND FINALLY
Listen to nature
Weasel words
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School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
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