New Library World: Volume 103 Issue 11/12
Table of contents
Information fluency: critically examining IT education
Pete Reffell, Andrew WhitworthIT education has become a key skill for higher education students, but the teaching of this subject is often ineffective. Office‐related, “button‐pushing” skills are passed onto…
Core competencies in information management education
G.E. Gorman, B.J. CorbittCore competencies have long been discussed and developed in the literature of library science education and information systems education. However, for information management, a…
Right to privacy? The protection of personal data in UK public organisations
Adam WarrenAims to investigate and analyse the extent to which individual privacy is being protected by recent legislation in the UK – in particular, the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998 and…
Finding your place in the information age library
Joseph C. RizzoAs more users access college and university library resources remotely and the promise of managed on‐site collections growth finally appears achievable librarians have developed a…
seamlessUK – building bridges between information islands
Lucy AthertonThis article provides an introduction to seamlessUK from the perspective of a partner project called PINpoint. Medway PINpoint is establishing a local portal which will become…