**Apologies for cross-posting**
     
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     Education Taskgroup established
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     Mark Wood, Vice Chair of the Library & Information Commission, has 
     announced the formation of a taskgroup to advise the Departments for 
     Culture, Media & Sport and for Education & Employment on ways in which 
     public libraries and education can work better together to improve 
     lifelong learning. A press release which details the members of the 
     Taskgroup is available on the LIC website at:
     
     http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/pressreleases/990922.html
     
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     New LIC research reports published
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     The Commission has recently published two reports:
     
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     CIRCE: better communities through better information 
     by Helen Leech
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     187p
     LIC research report 1
     ISBN 1902394046
     Available from: British Thesis Service, The British Library Document 
     Supply Centre, Boston Spa Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ.
     tel: 01937 546229; fax: 01937 546286; 
     email: [log in to unmask] 
     microfiche £5.00 UK; £6.00 overseas
     photocopy £12.00 UK; £17.00 overseas
     
     Also available on the Internet at: http://www.gloscc.gov.uk/circe/
     
     Project CIRCE was an 18-month research project looking at the 
     feasibility of networking community information between public library 
     authorities in the UK. It ran from December 1997 to May 1999 and 
     studied the technical and practical issues involved in networking 
     materials in the light of developments in the public library sector, 
     including the New Library Network.
     
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     Likely to succeed: attitudes and aptitudes for an effective information 
     profession in the 21st century
     by Anne Goulding...[et al.]
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     97p
     LIC research report 8
     ISBN 1902394097
     Available from: British Thesis Service, The British Library Document 
     Supply Centre, Boston Spa Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ.
     tel: 01937 546229; fax: 01937 546286; 
     email: [log in to unmask] 
     microfiche £5.00 UK; £6.00 overseas
     photocopy £12.00 UK; £17.00 overseas
     
     The report details the findings from a research project which compared 
     the personal qualities demanded by employers with the actual 
     attributes of Information and Library Studies (ILS) students. The 
     project found that employers across sectors identify the ability to 
     accept pressure, deal with a range of users and respond to change as 
     most essential for information work. The project also discovered a 
     significant overlap between the most 'essential' and 'lacking' 
     qualities, which raises the concern that qualities that are high in 
     demand are also in short supply. The report concludes that there is 
     evidence of a mis-match between employer requirements and expectations 
     and the attributes and attitudes displayed by ILS students.
     
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     Other reports recently published
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     Skills for knowledge management: building a knowledge economy 
     by TFPL Ltd
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     This research report, which is based on research jointly funded by the 
     Commission and TFPL Ltd, looks at the roles, skills and training 
     required to successfully implement a knowledge culture. It is available 
     from TFPL Ltd, 17-18 Britton Street, London EC1M 5TL; tel: 0207 251 
     5522; fax: 0207 251 8318; email: [log in to unmask] Price: £50.00
     
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     RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information 
     by William Worthington
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     1v. various pagings
     BLR&I report 176
     ISBN 071239740X
     Available from: British Thesis Service, The British Library Document 
     Supply Centre, Boston Spa Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ.
     tel: 01937 546229; fax: 01937 546286; 
     email: [log in to unmask] 
     microfiche £5.00 UK; £6.00 overseas
     photocopy £12.00 UK; £17.00 overseas
     
     The final report of a project funded by the British Library Research 
     and Innovation Centre prior to its transfer to the Commission. RUDI is 
     a World Wide Web site that aims to provide a single point of reference 
     for all students, educators and professional practitioners with an 
     interest in the various disciplines of urban design and the built 
     environment. The report offers a brief background to the project, 
     detailed descriptions about the tasks carried out and a discourse of 
     lessons with regard to the creation and dissemination of large scale 
     multimedia resources on the Web.
     
     
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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
     
     email: [log in to unmask]
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