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The top stories so far this month are:
Digital Birmingham (UK news)
Consultation on the British Library's Content Strategy (UK news)
Save the Internet.com (International news)
FTSE 100 Web sites fail accessibility tests (Digital divide news)
eGovernment Action Plan (EU news)
Google Co-op (Research and innovation news)
Special Section: Children, Adolescents, and the Internet (New publications)
These can be accessed from:
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More stories will be added to the Web news pages at the end of this month
when the Info@UK bulletin will also be issued.
Contents so far this month are:
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Digital Birmingham
Electronic discharge information for stroke patients
ICT and education reform
Open source and the voluntary sector
The MLA Partnership
Extending Bookstart
Consultation on the British Library's Content Strategy
Consultation on technology strategies
Winner of Libraries Change Lives Award
Communications market across the UK
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
World Information Society Day
World Vote field test
The Webby Awards 2006
World Press Freedom Day
e-Village in Jordan
International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium
Save the Internet.com
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Internet articles on the digital divide
Make a Noise in Libraries Fortnight 2006
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
FTSE100 Web sites fail accessibility tests
Digital Links International
EU DEVELOPMENTS
European women online
eGovernment Action Plan
EU Communication on WSIS implementation
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
Google Co-op
Internet penetration and impact
The Becta Review 2006
Research into the knowledge economy
Pay-per-view journals
Spoken Network
Open source CMS
The role of librarians in knowledge management
Community intermediaries in the knowledge society
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
OpenStreetMap
1841 census online
Learning.now
DSF Newsletter
Drupalib
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
Libraries Without Walls 6
Strong copyright + DRM + weak Net neutrality = digital dystopia?
Special Section: Children, Adolescents, and the Internet
The changing nature of the catalog and its integration with other discovery
tools
Extending access to learning through technology
The digital black hole
Best Practice in data collection
Library and information science resources at the British Library
APPOINTMENTS
Becta appoints new Chief Executive
New ALA President elected
New President of Socitm
New CIO
AND FINALLY
Images of librarians
'I've looked at clouds from both sides now'
Election expenses
Sue Childs
Research Fellow
Information Society Research & Consultancy group
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University
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