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Knowledge management report launched
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Skills for knowledge management, a research report published on behalf
of LIC by TFPL Ltd was launched on Monday at a seminar in London. The
report looks at the roles, skills and training required to successfully
implement a knowledge culture. A press release announcing the launch is
available from the LIC website at:
http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/pressreleases/knowledg.html and an
executive summary of the report is available at:
http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/executivesummaries/kmskills.html
The full report will be available from TFPL Ltd, 17-18 Britton Street,
London EC1M 5TL. tel: 0207 251 5522 fax: 0207 251 8318. Price £50 (£35
for academic institutions) plus £3 postage & packing in UK and £5
overseas.
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£20,000 in new ICT prizes announced at Umbrella5
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Culture Secretary Chris Smith opened the Umbrella5 conference in
Manchester with an announcement about the New Library Award for ICT
(Ingenious and Creative use of Technology), sponsored by the
Department for Culture, Media & Sport and run by the LIC, with prizes
worth a total of £20,000, in a competition open to individual
public library service points as well as library authorities. A press
release which describes the Award in more detail is available on the
website at:
http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/pressreleases/ictprize.html
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Good news for blind readers
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The Commission and Share the Vision have announced how they intend to
spend the £200,000 made available by the Department for Culture, Media
& Sport to ensure that blind and visually impaired people benefit in a
much wider way from access to library and reading services. A press
release detailing the projects to be funded is available on the
website at:
http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/pressreleases/shrvision.hmtl
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New research grant awarded
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The Commission has recently awarded a grant to Heriot-Watt University
for a project which will investigate how to define and identify
collections to which shared preservation responsibilities can be
applied within a regional or national context, taking into account the
differing scale and scope of significant collections in different
library sectors. Shared preservation in Scotland (SPIS) will also
investigate how priorities for identifying collections to be included
in a shared preservation programme are to be established across a
region or country; how the scope and content of collections for such a
programme is to be identified and handled; and how special and named
collections are to be treated within a shared preservation programme.
It will also try to identify and define the obligations that accepting
a responsibility for shared preservation imposes both upon individual
libraries and on the libraries working collaboratively as a group; and
it will investigate an effective on-line solution for denoting
information about shared preservation responsibilities across a region
or country and mechanisms for keeping it up-to-date. Full details of
this award and details of other current awards in the preservation of
and access to the recorded heritage research programme are available
on the LIC website at:
http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/presproj.html#re081
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Simon Matty
Information Officer
Library and Information Commission
19-29 Woburn Place
London WC1H 0LU
tel:0171 273 8733
fax:0171 273 8701
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