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1  CYNULLIAD / WELSH ASSEMBLY

Record of Proceedings 9/06/04

1.1 Child Poverty Report

The Minister for Health and Social Services (Jane Hutt): ... experience of child poverty has implications for education, social services, health, leisure and housing ...

Sure Start programmes within Cymorth in every local authority are vital for providing the early intervention that can lift the life chances of children. ...

... working with the new opportunities fund to create at least one integrated children's centre in each local authority area.

Lynne Neagle: ...with baby clinics, a health centre, mother and baby groups, parenting groups, toy libraries, early years learning, childcare, vocational training and skills classes, children's centres can and should become centres of opportunity in our communities.

http://www.wales.gov.uk/assemblydata/N0000000000000000000000000021421.pdf

Culture, Welsh Language and Sport Committee 12/05/04

1.2 Report Of The Minister For Culture, Welsh Language And Sport

"I recently announced the appointment of members of the new CyMAL Advisory Council from April this year. ... I anticipate that members of the Advisory Council will play an important role in influencing decision making in the key development areas to be taken forward by CyMAL. "
NB A reminder that library members are Rona Aldrich, Mike Hopkins, Alan Watkin and Andrew Green.

http://www.wales.gov.uk/servlet/CultureWelshLanguageAndSportCommittee?area_code=N0000000000000000000000000000007&document_code=N0000000000000000000000000020414&p_arch=post&module=dynamicpages&month_year=5|2004

1.3 Initial Consideration Of Budget Priorities For Budget 2004 Planning Round

"Develop local libraries, museums and archives services fit for the 21st century and provide modern community services which support lifelong learning and are accessible to all."

[note at the end of the figures:]

In addition to this, expenditure in 2004-05 for projects such as the Wales Millennium Centre, National Waterfront Museum, Free Swimming, Development of Libraries and the National Botanic Garden of Wales will be considered as part of the Finance Minister's in year review of all Assembly expenditure."

http://www.wales.gov.uk/servlet/CultureWelshLanguageAndSportCommittee?area_code=N0000000000000000000000000000007&document_code=N0000000000000000000000000020415&p_arch=post&module=dynamicpages&month_year=5|2004

Press releases

1.4 10/06/04: Minister appoints new chair of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales

... Alun Pugh has today announced the appointment of a new chair of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales, Richard Keen, a self-employed consultant from Carmarthenshire, succeeds Thomas Lloyd as chair of the Assembly's expert advisory group on the built heritage of Wales.

http://www.wales.gov.uk/servlet/PressReleaseByDateServlet?area_code=37E752F2000942E000000A2E00000000&document_code=N0000000000000000000000000021437

2  ADDYSG BELLACH AC UWCH / HE AND FE (gan/from RSC Cymru/ Wales www.rsc-wales.ac.uk)

2.1 MIMAS News

The latest edition of the MIMAS Newsletter is at

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/04jun/

And details of the next MIMAS Open Forum (free) in Manchester on 30 June is at http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news/mof2004/

JISC Collections News

2.2 Does your college/university make use of audio material?

JISC and the British Library want to know your priorities for future digitisation projects based on the British Library Sound Archive. If interested, please respond by 30 June.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=form&formid=3366105531

2.3 Consultations, free trials and new deals

See all the latest updates on the RSC Wales website including resources for Hairdressing, Biology and Business Studies as well as the new deals for Know UK, Know Europe and Infotrac.

http://www.rsc-wales.ac.uk/english/resources/jisc/jisctrials.shtml

Read all the latest JISC news at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

JISC Collections News http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=collections_latest_news

2.4 JISC Circular 4/04: Call for Projects in Supporting Institutional Digital Preservation and Asset Management

http://www.rsc-wales.ac.uk/english/info/funding.shtml#4/04

2.5 Channel 4 Resources

FE colleges can have a free trial of GCSEase and Life Stuff during June. For details contact Elaine Edwards [log in to unmask] giving your name and college.

2.6 Fforwm LRC Managers Network 17 June Coleg Powys

Joint meeting with ILT Champions. More details at

http://www.rsc-wales.ac.uk/english/events/display.asp?ID=529

2.7 New PATLIB UK Centre for Wales

New patent library at Swansea University provides free basic information & advice to academics, general public and businesses.

http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/library_services/patlib.asp

3  CILIP CYMRU / WALES

The post of Executive Officer will be re-advertised in the next Gazette on 18 June.

4  LLYFRGELLOEDD CYHOEDDUS / PUBLIC LIBRARIES

4.1 Total visits to UK Libraries

The 'Society Facts' section of the Guardian (9 June) reports CIPFA's 42nd annual report on public libraries, covering the year April 2002 to March 31 2003, which shows that the number of people using libraries was up by 5 million on the previous twelve months - equivalent  to 93,000 extra visits a week.   The report can be found at www.cipfastats.net

Guardian, Society, p11, 9 June

4.2 New resource for Dual Use Libraries

A Community of Practice has recently been set up by the University of Central England to support anyone working in or managing a dual use library and to provide information for anyone with a general interest in the area.

http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/dualuse/index.htm

5  DATBLYGU DARLLENWYR / READER DEVELOPMENT

5.1 Story of Jamaican migrants wins Orange prize for Andrea Levy

The British author, Andrea Levy, has won the £30,000 women's fiction with Small Island, a tale of Jamaican migration to London after the Second World War. 

Independent 9/06/04 p9

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=529595

5.2 Book ends: 17,000 aspiring writers take a shot at finishing short stories started by their heroes

'End of Story', a BBC competition which involved participants writing their own endings to stories begun by their favourite authors, attracted 17,000 entries and generated more than 20 million words. Independent, p21, 10 June

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=529953

5.3 Poetry Power

Flintshire County Council's Library and Information Service is inviting entries for its annual poetry competition, "Poetry Power".  This event forms part of the Flintshire Festival                    programme and is supported by Academi.

http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/__80256BD700313C77.nsf/0/4EE5EC4DB51B4F4880256EA80044B638?opendocument

6  LLYTHRENNEDD / LITERACY

Downing Street seminar on literacy and social inclusion

The Literacy and Social Inclusion project held a seminar last month to open up the debate around literacy and social inclusion, and to discuss some of the issues highlighted in the project's recent paper, 'Literacy and social inclusion: the policy challenge' . A copy of the project paper can be downloaded from http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/socialinclusion/policychallenge.html

Contributions and responses need to be made by 25 June.

National Literacy Trust News, May 2004

http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/may04.html

7  CYLLID / FUNDING

7.1 Demonstrating Value

Demonstrating Value is a one-day conference exploring the innovative ways in which public and voluntary sector organisations are measuring their value and demonstrating the benefits they deliver.  21 June, British Library Conference Centre, £100. 

http://www.bl.uk/cgi-bin/events.cgi

7.2 SEMLAC Project Planning Pack

This Resource Pack aims to help organizations planning to undertake a project - whether it is a small documentation project or a major building project. It will assist you to develop a strong, well-conceived and sustainable project, capable of responding to the criteria of funding bodies.

http://www.semlac.org.uk/resources_pack1revised.html

7.3 PPRG PR & Publicity Awards

The Publicity and Public Relations Group of CILIP and Farries Library Services have invited nominations for the PPRG PR & Publicity Awards. Further details can be found at http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/pprg/index.html#s2

8  AR-LEIN / ONLINE

8.1 UKOLUG

Congratulations to Chris Armstrong of Information Automation Ltd in Aberystwyth who becomes Vice Chair of UKOLUG.

UKOLUG, the UK e-information group, have redeveloped their website. Free factsheets available.

http://www.ukolug.org.uk

8.2 Internet Resources Newsletter

June 2004 now available.

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn117/irn117.html

8.3 E-MmITS

The new Multimedia and Information Technology Group Scotland newsletter

This issue focuses on Web Accessibility.

http://www.slainte.org.uk/mmits/index.htm

8.4 Official Website Locator for United Nations

Portal to web sites of the United Nations, its funds and programmes, and specialized agencies. (Resource Shelf)

http://www.unsystem.org/

8.5 Library world records moves to a website

'Library world records' has moved to a new website, http://www.lwrw.com

LIS-LINK, 9 June

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0406&L=lis-link&T=0&F=&S=&P=10806

9  DIWYLLIANT / CULTURE

9.1 Veterans Reunited

A GBP 2 million fund has been established to enable England's museums, libraries and archives to participate in Veterans Reunited, a lottery-funded national campaign to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

MLANews, 4 June

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0406&L=mlanews&T=0&F=&S=&P=286

In Wales, contact Gwyn Jenkins, National Library of Wales at [log in to unmask]

9.2 Disaster Recovery

Disaster prevention, and business continuity are vital issues. Much of what is written here is simple common sense, but it is valuable in providing a checklist. The reading and contacts lists will provide you with much more of what you need to know.

http://www.managinginformation.com/disaster_recovery/disaster_recovery.htm

10  RECORDS MANAGEMENT

The draft Local Government Classification Scheme can be viewed on the Records Management Society of Great Britain's website.

http://www.rms-gb.org.uk/

11  DIGITISATION

ErpaDirectory Launched

Searchable resource that list projects involved in digital preservation.

http://www.erpanet.org/php/erpadirectory/

12  ARCHIVES

12. 1 CyMAL Archives Grants Scheme

Now launched.  The closing date is 30 July.  Two workshops will be held on 28 June (Haverfordwest) and 1 July (Llandudno) on the grants scheme.  For more information contact Eluned Jones (01970 610237 / [log in to unmask]

12.2 Transforming our archives: MLA's agenda for archive development

The new 'Action for Archives' section, which has been created on the MLA website at http://www.mla.gov.uk/action/archives/atf.asp  provides access to a number of MLA documents, including the report of the Archives Task Force, recently submitted to the government, 'Listening to the past, speaking to the future'.

MLANews, e-bulletin Issue 105, 3 June

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0406&L=mlanews&T=0&F=&S=&P=182

13  YR ALBAN / SCOTLAND

Public libraries in Scotland are looking to develop a new set of public library standards.

More from the Scottish Libraries Conference next week.

14  Y WASG / PRESS

14.1 Actress to launch Drwm

Western Mail 7/06/04

Actress Sian Phillips will officially launch the long-awaited new auditorium at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth this Saturday.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/page.cfm?objectid=14309404&method=full&siteid=50082

14.2 Giving a voice to Wales' English-language writers

Western Mail 5/06/04

In the cacophony of famous voices that is the Hay Festival it is perhaps inevitable that Welsh writers struggle to make themselves heard. Given the town's strong sense of Welshness, its festival should be a showcase for the nation's talent.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/columnists/page.cfm?objectid=14306135&method=full&siteid=50082

DYDDIADUR / DIARY

28-29 Mehefin / June 2004

DALLAS conference- University of Wales Swansea

Library Support for Non Traditional Learners: aimed at all library & information staff working with part time students, distance learners, lifelong learners - indeed any 'non traditional' learner. 

Contact: Siân Williams  tel: 01792 518603/581693  email: [log in to unmask]

1 Gorffenaf / July 2004

CILIP Affiliated Members Group and Career Development Group Wales

Training for Tomorrow: What the new Qualifications Framework means for you.

Margaret Watson and Marion Huckle from CILIP.

University of Wales Swansea.

Contact: Nina Whitcombe [log in to unmask]

1 Gorffennaf / July 2004  

UC&R Group Wales - Impression Management

1 day workshop at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

What does your image say about you? More than you might think!

Contact: Gillian Anderson [log in to unmask]

http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/ucrwales/eng/events.htm

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Mae'r gwasanaeth ar gael ar y We: / The bulletin is now also available on the web at:

http://users.aber.ac.uk/hle/gwybodae.pdf

Swyddog Datblygu / Development Officer
CWLIS and CILIP CYMRU/WALES

Adran Astudiaethau Gwybodaeth / Department of Information Studies
Llanbadarn Fawr
Aberystwyth  SY23 3AS
Tel: 01970 622174       Fax: 01970 622190
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://users.aber.ac.uk/hle/