I am forwarding the mail below which I picked up on another discussion list.  Some of you may be able to make a contribution to the reply re patient info or similar.


Helen Farquharson
E-resources Librarian
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
Birmingham
B31 2AP

0121-685-4029
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From: Lis-educ: Library services for education [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lucy Gildersleeves [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 January 2009 01:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: URGENT Fwd: Libraries and learning information request

Dear all

If you have particular points or case examples
that you would like me to include in a formal ELG
response to CILIP for this invitation / request
from Lyn Brown, MP and Secretary of State DIUS ,
please would you send them TO ME
([log in to unmask]) by 5.00pm on Monday
26 January so that I have time to collate the ELG
response before the deadline of 30th January.

Lucy




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>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:27:41 +0000
>Subject: Libraries and learning information request
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>Dear Colleagues
>
>Bob McKee had a meeting last week with Lyn Brown
>MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group
>on Libraries, Literacy and Information
>Management, in which she made a request for help
>from CILIP in preparing a significant speech:
>
>“Lyn Brown is… PPS to John Denham, Secretary of
>State for the Department for Innovation,
>Universities and Skills (DIUS) who recently made
>a policy statement about the government's
>support for informal adult learning in which he
>envisaged a central role for libraries. John
>Denham has now asked Lyn Brown to follow this up
>and she is scheduled to give a major speech on
>17 February on behalf of the government on
>"libraries at the heart of
>learning."  Yesterday, Lyn asked me for CILIP's
>help in preparing this speech. She also asked
>Jonathan Douglas (National Literacy Trust) for
>assistance, as Jonathan and I both serve as
>unofficial professional advisers to Lyn's APPG.
>
>Could you pull together … anything useful which
>links libraries (all types, not just public
>libraries; and all countries, not just the UK)
>to the following agendas: informal adult
>learning; learning within higher education;
>support for skills development; support for
>innovation; social mobility; and economic
>development. Quotable case studies would be particularly welcome.
>
>… This is, obviously, an important opportunity
>to influence a major speech on government policy.” (from Bob’s email)
>
>We would very much like your input to this
>request. We have already done a good deal of
>work in CILIP’s response to the DIUS consultation on informal learning:
><http://www.cilip.org.uk/policyadvocacy/responses/consultations2008/DIUSconsultationinformallearning.htm>http://www.cilip.org.uk/policyadvocacy/responses/consultations2008/DIUSconsultationinformallearning.htm
>
>We would be grateful for any further
>contributions, ideas and examples that you think relevant to the topic.
>
>Please could you send them to
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>by Friday 30 January. Yes the deadline is short but that’s the way it is!
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Jill Howard, Policy Support Officer.
>For Guy Daines, Director Policy & Advocacy Unit.
>
>
>
>Jill Howard
>Policy Support Officer
>Policy & Advocacy Unit, CILIP
>7 Ridgmount Street
>London WC1E 7AE
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L Gildersleeves
Lecturer
Department of Information Studies  (formerly
known as School of Library,Archive & Information Studies)
University College London
Gower Street
LONDON WC1E 6BT

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