Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Bruce Doern (on half-time three-year secondment from the school of administration, Carleton University, Ottawa), chair of public policy; Duncan Bruce (senior lecturer, University...
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Awards
BRITISH MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission has awarded scholarships, tenable at the institutions named, for two years from this month to the following students from the...
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Appointments
The Council for Hospitality Management Education The Council for Hospitality Management Education has elected the following to the executive committee for 1995/96: Chairman - Dolf Mogendorff, Glasgow...
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Investors for FE
The private sector is expected to revitalise cash-starved further education by investing in colleges for profit and importing management expertise from business. Launching the private finance...
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No cash to expand - Clarke to claw back Pounds 1.8 billion saving?
Higher education is unlikely to get extra funding for renewed expansion under a Conservative government, it emerged this week. Billions of pounds, which Tory policy shapers think could be saved by...
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Road to hell paved with upgrades
Don't get me wrong: I have not regretted for a moment my decision to buy a Macintosh back in 1984. What I wish I had not done was put the latest program on a few months ago. There I was perfectly...
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Just in time economics regulate the data race
New complexities and tight budgets will force libraries to embrace full automation, Tony Durham argues. Not all the changes occurring in libraries can be explained by technology push. As far as...
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Gold-darned predictions
The Environmental Change Unit at Oxford University have won a top award for a project aimed at extracting "nuggets of data" from large databases. The unit suggested using Clementine software to "data...
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Green light in Glamorgan
Environment activist and Greenpeace supporter, computer studies undergraduate Wayne Putterill appears to have found the right spot for publicising his local society and Greenpeace internationally....
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Content with a starring role
Lucy Hodges finds former library schools, such as that at Sheffield, are transforming students into information navigators. Forget your image of the librarian as someone who humps books around and...
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Bells and whistles for the wedding march
Debby Raven argues that campus libraries and computing centres will be locked in marriages of convenience. Libraries and computing centres in universities are coming together increasingly,...
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The quest for Seren-dipity
All library databases may soon be linked, Iola Smith reports. A Bangor project plans to enable lecturers and students in Wales to use all the principality's library materials. The Pounds 350,000...
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Information culture in search of a landslide
They are short of money, running out of space, and threatened by rising crime. They are struggling with technology that offers amazing opportunities but often disappoints in practice and always...
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Delivery focus
Loughborough University will use teams from information and library studies and computer studies departments for a three-year investigation document delivery to specialist users. The project, Focused...
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Wellcome Rom
The Wellcome Trust's financial activities are now available on CD-Rom. Its annual report for 1994 complements the printed version. It contains data on research grants, scientific panels,...