CILIPS Council Meeting Tue 27 October

A report on proceedings compiled by CILIPS Assistant Director Rhona Arthur, featuring developments with the Information Scotland journal, CILIPS Annual Conference and updates on all other CILIPS initiatives.

What are you doing (in September)?

CILIPS, as an early adopter of microblogging, developed a Twitter presence as part of our research into how Web 2.0 tools might support member engagement and also be incorporated into workflows – activity which in turn is supporting our efforts to lead discussion on the usefulness to our membership of emergent technologies. What we [...]

Enterprise, engagement and new communications: Web 2.0 in the library

On the warmest day of the year in Edinburgh so far the hottest ticket in town gained admission to this sell out event at the National Library of Scotland where the key themes of the day were communication and engagement.
While some sectors have experienced enthusiastic uptake of social networking technology the public library service has [...]

SLIC and CILIPS in 2009

This year looks set to be a busy time for the team at SLIC and CILIPS.  Here’s a round-up of the main projects we’ll be working on in the first half of the year:

AskScotland – work is currently under way on the national service that will enable people all over the world to have [...]