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     Press Release
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     ICT Prize - winners announced
     
     The ICT Prize for Ingenious and Creative Use of Technology has been 
     won by Balham Library for its Electronic Promotion of Stock in 
     Libraries (EPOSIL) project. Runners up were Alien Abduction: a story 
     on the Web (from Northamptonshire Libraries & Information Service) and 
     Readers Without Walls (from Essex County Council Libraries)
     
     Full Press Release at:
     
     http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/pressreleases/000207.html
     
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     LIC Annual Report published
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     The 1998/1999 Library and Information Commission annual report has been 
     published. Hard copies are available from Henry Girling (details below).
     The electronic version is available at:
     
     http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/policyreports/annual9899/index.html 
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     Three New Grants Awarded
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     Outsourcing and Externalisation by libraries, museums and archives
     
     Further details at:
     http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/mlis.html
     
     Navigation Preliminary Study
     
     Further details at:
     http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/valproj.html
     
     Sustainable models of learning cultures and resource-based learning for the 
     21st Century
     
     Further details at:
     http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/valproj.html
     
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     New Publication
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     A Survey of Library Services to Schools and Children in the UK 
     1998-1999
     by Claire Creaser
     LIC research report 28
     
     This is the tenth report in the annual LISU series of surveys of 
     library provision to schools and children, which began with a survey 
     of services in England and Wales in 1989-90. It has since expanded to 
     cover the whole UK, and now includes valuable summaries of recent 
     trends in both provision and use. The report covers both public 
     library services to children and the support provided by local 
     authorities to schools via the schools library service. It gives 
     details for individual authorities as well as sector totals and 
     overall estimates of provision, covering staffing levels, service 
     provision, resources and expenditure in both services. For schools 
     library services there is additional detail on organisation and 
     management structures, and the extent of service take-up. There is a 
     comprehensive summary of trends in the main areas, and several 
     appendices giving data on populations, comments on staffing, copies of 
     the questionnaires, lists of non-respondents and details of local 
     government re-organisation. PRICE £27-50
     
     AVAILABLE FROM
     
     Publications Section, LISU, Loughborough University 
     Loughborough, Leics. LE11 3TU 
     
     Tel: 01509 223071 Fax: 01509 223072
     Email: [log in to unmask]
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     People's Network Online
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     The People's Network Online website continues to grow. Information on 
     projects and people is being added all the time. Take the Grand Tour 
     and learn what it is all about.
     
     It can be found at:
     
     http://www.lic.gov.uk/pno/index.html 
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        Henry Girling
        Library and Information Commission
        19-29 Woburn Place
        London
        WC1H 0LU
     
        Tel:   0171 273 8746
        Fax:   0171 273 8701
        Email  [log in to unmask]
     
     



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