Page 1 INCLUSION: What do blind and visually impaired users really want?

Kevin Carey looks at the layer of complexity concerning what the author can describe and what the blind and visually impaired users want to be told.

Page 4. FINGER ON THE PULSE: Five security truths to protect your critical systems.

IT security is a moving target, and the bad guys are ahead of you, not behind you. Brian O’ Higgins looks at what you can do to protect your systems.

Page 6. FINGER ON THE PULSE: Are hackers stealing the limelight?

Tom de Jongh says that IT security over-protects the wrong assets, over-reacts to the unexpected, and over-spends. He announces the arrival of ‘security 3.0’ to avoid these problems.

Page 10. IN FOCUS. Managing the information pollution.

Information is a term which describes extreme information overload caused by the proliferation of the various forms of electronic communication. Jakob Nielsen looks at the problems, and suggests solutions.

Page 14 GENERAL NEWS.

CMS Watch finds plenty of choices for web analytic; IFLA appointments; Westminster Reference Library launches dedicated business support; IT salaries in London rise by 4.3% in 2007; Appointment of non-executive directors of the Statistics Board; Social networking sites cost UK plc £6.5 billion;

Page 17. JISC UPDATE

JANET is winner at egovernment awards; JISC and Higher Education Academy integrity service; Federated access management: JISC announces changes to transition arrangements; Digimap goes to sea: new resource on marine and coastal zone data; Managing projects, programmes and portfolios: JISC Infonet launches new resources;

Page 19 – JISC NEWS CONTINUED AND MORE GENERAL NEWS

JISC infonet story concluded; Top 10 table shows Natwest is email fraudsters favourite; Edward Swain: new baby for MI production editor Michelle Swain; Copyright policies, dealing with infringements and risk management, building and deploying a corporate taxonomy – 2 courses at Aslib in February.

Page 20 PRODUCT NEWS.

The changing future of social media web sites – the global entrepreneur; Swetswise completes first full year with introduction of License Bank; Tow year colleges to benefit from dedicated databases introduced by EBSCO publishing; EBSCO Publishing increases newspaper coverage; Comodo launches memeory firewall – designed to protect against buffer overflow attack; Significant milestones, continued momentum for OpenDocument format; EBSCO Publishing digitises extensive backfile; Sharepoint, Facebook may disappoint but new opportunities emerge in search, archiving and web analytics; EU regulatory change; COPAN JWG IT partnership; SyrsiDynix Symphony now available.

Page 28. COPYRIGHT UPDATE.

Orphan Works (copyright)| LACA position statement; IPO copyright exceptions consultation launched.

Page 34. DATA PROTECTION UPDATE.

ICO takes enforcement action against Carphone Warehouse; Department of Health found in breach of data protection; Netshields comments on data protection; ICO data protection officer conference; ICO takes enforcement action against Marks & Spencer; Data losses and Government indecision threaten future of National ID programme.

Page 36. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.

Freedom of Information, 3 years on.

Page 36. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND UPDATE.

Saltire literary award winners announced.

Page 38. BRITISH LIBRARY UPDATE.

British Library Chief Executive made a Dame in new year honours (UK); British Library celebrates award success in 2007.

Page 40. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS UPDATE.

Digital Preservation Program adds new partners; Center for the Book receives Raven award from Mystery Writers of America; Library of Congress, Microsoft announce agreement to support new interactive experience for visitors; Library of Congress new funding guide for preserving historical cultural connections; Library of Congress discovers images of Lincoln’s second inauguration;

Page 44. ISSUE THEME: THE INFORMATION WORLD IN 2008.

Eduserv’s vision for AIM in 2008.

Ed Zedlewski asks if federated access management is the end game for access or identity management, or just a stepping stone.

Page 46

Pioneering BL/JISC COMMISSIONED RESEARCH SHOWS GOOGLE GENERATION IS A MYTH.

There is a real danger that the library professional will be swept aside, as relevant to twenty-first century Britain as the hot metal typesetter – just one of the striking findings of this research into online research habits today.

Page 56. CORRIDORS

A round-up of information issues that have been exercising the UK Parliament and government agencies with their implications for information professionals. By Tim Buckley Owen.

Value of public sector information seriously underestimated – again; More activity at the Trading Funds; MPs put right on super sites; Real life examples of data sharing sought; Information Commissioner wants more power and more money; March deadline for statistics spinning consultation; Audit Commission information quality standards have no force; Don’t stop e-voting pilots government tells Electoral Commission; Broadband access summit of dubious value.

Page 58 – LOBBY LEADS.

Issues we should be campaigning on set out by Tim Buckley Owen.

Stop posing and get on with it – the UK’s information assets are important and shouldn’t be the subject of politicking; Any advance on £1 billion? – we need to sweat the public information asset – currently valued at £1 billion; Events dear boy, events – recent data protection events should get more public attention for the Data Sharing Review.

Page 60. EUROPEAN NEWS

European Information Update by Rosalind Johnson.

Commission discloses EU beneficiaries; Spatial information directive; New projects launched; television in the digital age; Council conclusions on digital preservation; EU to invest 9 billion Euros in ICT research; RFID success in Dutch bookstore; Services directive approved; Study on the economy of culture in Europe published; Sharing Europe’s cultural heritage online.

Page 62 EURO News EXTRA: digital issues

European Digital Library news; Digital preservation projects and reports; European Digital Library conference; Radio Frequency Identification news;

Page 63 GROUP AND BRANCH UPDATE

Emerald contacts; Committee contacts; Harry Drummond retires as Midlands Branch chair; Aslib Engineering Group and IT&C Group merger proposal.

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