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Libraries
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Written by Ingrid Hopson
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Friday, 03 September 2010 07:00 |
Ingrid Hopson, SLA School Librarian of the Year 2007 and a member of the judging panel for this year's award, explains why schools need librarians and what the judges were looking for when they selected this year’s Honour List (BookBrunch story)
You ask: what do school librarians do?
I answer: we help our pupils become better learners.
Libraries exist not as collections of resources but as places that foster creativity and independent thought. We cannot know what the world will be like for our pupils when they reach adulthood, but we can prepare them for their future.
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Digital
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 13:14 |
Ebooks have transformed reading for those with print impairments, and still more can be done, writes Denise Dwyer
Much has been written about the huge potential of ebooks to transform access to books for people with print impairments, i.e. people who cannot enjoy standard print editions because of sight loss, dyslexia, or a disability that makes it difficult to hold a book or turn a page. A number of obstacles have prevented this potential from becoming reality, but the latest advances are set to change that, helping more people with print impairments to buy and enjoy books via the mainstream.
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Digital
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Written by Tom Morton
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Friday, 27 August 2010 17:40 |
 My belov’d Publisher has ask’d me to share some Peregrinations ‘pon how the Internet has chang’d our Use of Language & our Pursuit of Knowledge. I approach this Topick as a Gardener might approach an untended Garden, for no Plant or Vine does grow as heartily, nor merit pruning as ardently as human FOLLY, especially when fed with the pungent Fertilizer of the Internet.
Like a ne’er-ending Cheapside Coffee-House or an infinite Shelf of my Lord HARLEY’S Library, the Internet does bind all the Wits & all the Knowledge of the World in one almighty Highway of ETHER. This Super-Highway is as treacherous as any Turnpike, for it is laid with lewd Aquatints of Harlots in yr. Area & foreign Peddlers of Quack-Medicine. And, like any of the King’s Highways, it does fall Prey to electronick Highwaymen, who might make like a Cut-Purse ‘pon a Man’s Banking-Deeds. Any Corner of the Internet whence Slatterns do emerge to show a Flash of Stocking-Top are likely to be teeming with Footpads, who wait to pilfer an unsuspecting Gentleman’s Pass-Words should he pass a Door mark’d CLICK HERE.
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Publishing
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Written by Simon Kerr
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Friday, 27 August 2010 08:00 |
Getting a foot on the literary ladder has never been easy, unless you have connections. With mainstream houses concentrating on supposed bankers, it's never been harder. With Lightship, author, academic and newbie publisher Simon Kerr hopes to lighten the darkness
Independent publishers with public-financed business models are in for hard times in the coming years if they cannot adapt. The time of Deep Cut is upon us. With the nice people at the Arts Council being told to cut 10% internally this year and maybe 20 to 30% next year, the Literature Relationship Managers, those champions of new writing, are living in fear and trembling of the great labris falling. If grants for arts funding is withdrawn next year, that will undoubtedly be bad news for independent publishers. It may spell the end of what was a fruitful collaboration between the public and private sectors to publish new literary writing, but hopefully it will not be the death knell of independent publishing.
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Publishing
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Written by Kate Russell
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:25 |
Handling poor performance, hissy fits and harassment - that's one of the issues examined by Kate Russell in a new book on managing performance in the workplace
Over the years, the publishing industry has had to deal with a number of well-recorded examples of misconduct - and I don’t mean just the long, liquid lunches. However, though poor work performance is the subject of complaint far more often than misconduct, it is much less well-managed. Many inexperienced managers simply ignore it or make regrettable remarks (“Why are you so lazy?”) which don’t constitute effective management of the problem.
In legal terms, poor work performance is also known as “capability”, which refers to an employee's skills, ability, aptitude and knowledge in relation to the job that he is employed to do. Where an employee falls short of the standards, the employer is required to follow a clearly prescribed process to correct the employee, give him a real and reasonable opportunity to reach the standards, and to follow a formal procedure where he does not. If the employee fails to do so, the employer either has to tolerate the poor performance (which might mean he ends up doing the work, or annoying other more competent employees) or be exposed to the risk of unfair dismissal or constructive unfair dismissal claims.
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