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Charted Institute of Information and Library Professionals

CILIP is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers, with up to 23,000 members working in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries.

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Location Register of 20th-century English literary manuscripts and letters

Reading University have just come to the end of a Laser Foundation funded project to create a website to help people locate literary manuscripts held by libraries across the UK.
 

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Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

MLA is a strategic agency working with and for
museums, archives and libraries in the UK.

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PKF report on public library budgets and stock procurement

PKF report on public library budgets and stock procurement, and a statement of intent from DCMS and MLA about taking forward work to improve efficiency in getting books from publishers to library users.

The report (and appendices) is published on the MLA website

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Stock Quality Health Check

It contains all the information and debates that have been going on over the past year and we have included a Discussion Board for people to continue to contribute.
 
If SCL members want to take a quick look at the way we've used the web to help explain the SQHC try the mouse rollovers on:
 
 
If you want to see how we have presented the results go to:
 
 
and if you would like to see your authority's individual results in comparison with others type your authority's unique ID number in the box at:
 
 
You will find your unique number in the file name of your returned reaveraged results, for example [Name of authority] [unique number] 2004 Stock Quality Health Check Rev 1.5 November Results Master 1.1.  Numbers have been allocated randomly so they protect anonymity.

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The British Library

Search the catalogues, order items for research, view exhibitions and link to information resources worldwide. The Library conserves knowledge for future generations. It is the UK's leading research library.

> Visit this website