Are Your Hyperlinks Legal? Urgent Consultation
The DTI is carrying out a consultation on the liability of hyperlinkers and location tool providers, and Aslib is putting together a response on this.

Scholarship Friendly Copyright Policies: A Publisher's Perspective (word format)
An article written by Jenny Pickles, New Business Development Manager, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Aslib Emerald Award Winner (word format)
This article, first published in Journal of Documentation, Vol.59, No.1, 2003, is the Aslib members' choice as best article of 2003 in an Aslib/Emerald journal. The main criterion for the best article is the effect that a work has had on our corporate members' work. It has been chosen by the members through Aslib's dynamic groups and branches network, making this award a powerful endorsement of the quality of the article, and indeed the content of the Aslib/Emerald journals as a whole, because it is the choice of the members, the readers.

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP Secretary of State for Education and Skills Keynote address to the JISC 2003 Conference
Charles Clarke, Secretary of State for Education and Skills gave the keynote address at the JISC ICT Conference.

Studying Knowledge Management at Masters Level
The need for more knowledge management courses is starting to be recognised and a few such courses are now being established. This article, firstly, considers the KM course at South Bank University and then looks at a variety of other KM courses that are currently available.

Celebrating Excellence in the Knowledge Economy
A talk given by Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, at an event organised by CILIP, aimed at showing Members of Parliament the vital role that librarians and information managers play in the knowledge economy.

Speech by CILIP President, Sheila Corrall: CILIP Terrace Reception
A talk given by the CILIP president, Sheila Corrall, at the CILIP Terrace Reception on 3 July 2002.

UK Government Accused of Snooping on Citizens
Outrage is being expressed in the UK press at the time of writing over government proposals to give sweeping new powers for citizens' email and telephone records to be 'snooped upon.'

Global Information and Records Management
Elspeth Scott, Director of Global Information and Records Management within GlaxoSmithKline plc. talks in detail about the formation of this new group, its role and objectives.

Disaster Recovery
Disaster prevention, and business continuity are vital issues. In a feature such as this, it is only possible to scrape at the tip of the iceberg, and to provide some pointers. Much of what is written here is simple common sense, but it is valuable in providing a checklist for those who are very busy.