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          Nine new grants awarded
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          1.Northern Ireland Publications Scoping Study
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/coopproj.html
     
          2. Improved Online Informatin Access
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/ir-curpj.html>
     
          3.Retrieval Through Explanation: An Abductive Inference Approach 
          To Relevance Feedback
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/ir-curpj.html
     
          4.The use of volunteers in Library and Information Services
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/pubaward.html
     
          5. Best Value and Better Performance in Libraries
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/pubaward.html
     
          6. Public places, private spaces: a scoping study of privacy,     
             anonymity and confidentiality in public libraries
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/pubaward.html
     
          7. Harmonising the process of procuring library management        
             systems: a feasibility study
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/mlis.html
     
          8. Electronic governance and electronic democracy
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/valproj.html
     
          9. Reading the situation: book reading, buying and borrowing in   
             Britain
     
          Go to: http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/valproj.html>
     
     
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          Two new reports         
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          Full Disclosure: Releasing the value of library and archive 
          collections
          by Ann Chapman, Nicholas Kingsley and Lorcan Dempsey 
          82p
          LIC research report 10
          ISBN 095168566X
          A report to the Pathfinding Group of the British Library, Library and 
          Information Commission and the Library and Information Co-operation 
          Council by UKPLN and the National Council on Archives on a national 
          strategy for the retrospective conversion of library and archive 
          catalogues.
     
          Cross-sectoral mobility in the LIS profession
          by Pete Dalton, Glen Mynott, Clare Nankivell and Denis Reardon 
          210p
          LIC research report 19
          ISBN 095168566X
          This report contains the findings and conclusions of an 
          investigation within the LIS profession into cross-sectoral 
          mobility, for example, moving between the academic and school 
          library sectors or the commercial and medical library sectors. 
          The project was conceived and conducted by the Centre for 
          Information Research and Training (CIRT) in the School of 
          Information Studies, University of Central England in Birmingham.
     
     
          See http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/researchreports/index.html
     
          Both reports available from:
     
          British Thesis Service
          The British Library Document Supply Centre 
          Boston Spa
          Wetherby
          West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ 
          tel: +44 (0) 1937 546229
          fax: +44 (0)1937 546286
          email: [log in to unmask] 
     
          The charges for on demand copies are: 
          microfiche £5.00 UK; £6.00 overseas
          photocopy £12.00 UK: £17.00 overseas 
     
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     Henry Girling
     Assistant Information Officer
     Library and Information Commission
     19-29 Woburn Place
     London
     WC1H 0LU
     
     Tel:   0171 273 8746
     Fax:   0171 273 8701
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