ALISS (Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences) http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/other_sites/aliss/
Has just published its first issue of ALISS Quarterly for 2006
The contents are:
Digitisation Projects
Vision of Britain: An on-line statistical database for everybody else
Humphrey Southall, Reader in Geography, University of Portsmouth
Malinowski's Kiriwina: Desktop Access to the Photographs of Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), anthropologist
Sue Donnelly, Archivist, London School of Economics
The Worker's War: Home Front Recalled
Keri A. Myers, Project Worker, TUC Library Collections
The ICOMM/ISA Political Archives Project - Cataloguing and Promoting Political Ephemera from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Danny Millum (Political Archives Project Officer), Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library
e-Learning Initiatives.
COLOSSUS: Collaborating on Learning Objects in Social Science
James Everett, Project Manager, X4L Phase 2 COLOSSUS Project
Innovative Practice with e-Learning: opening the door to 21st Century learning
Ros Smith, consultant and writer on e-learning for post-16 communities
Podcasting - BIZ/ED'S 'In the News Service'
Flora Watson, Biz/ed Content Editor
Research Skills
Overcoming distance: study support for MOSAIC, an online short course in Information Literacy
Kirsty Baker, Information Literacy Unit Manager, Open University Library
Introduction to the 'Companion for Undergraduate Dissertations' online resource
Julia Waldman, Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP) and Malcolm Todd, Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP),
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Single issues can be purchased by non-members for £14.00
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Heather Dawson
ALISS Secretary
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