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The morning of Friday the 13th of November saw the Ask Scotland Development day at the Mitchell library. The day was a chance to outline the overall strategy of implementing the service and was also an opportunity for the first group of librarians involved in Ask Scotland to ask questions about it and give [...]
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Last Friday’s ministerial launch of the ScotlandsPeople discount voucher scheme in public libraries seems to have done a good job in raising the profile of the initiative (view press release). Details of the launch appeared in several newspapers including the Daily Record, the Scotsman, the Sun and the Sunday Telegraph. SLIC has also experienced increased [...]
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The children’s author Alan Gibbons is launching a ‘Campaign for the Book’ which has the aim of establishing “a network of authors, professional bodies, trade unions and local pressure groups to resist attacks on reading for pleasure”. In a recent article Alan writes about how reading for pleasure is being eroded as both public and [...]
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