Page 1 INCLUSION. Kevin Carey considers how rare it is for digital products to put the needs of users first.

Page 4. IN FOCUS. Educational institutions, museums and libraries are handling ever increasing volumes of up-to-date information, which need ot be successfully managed and archived yet retain instant accessibility. Is this simply a question of storage and effective chain management?

Page 8. SPECIAL BRIEFING 1. A practical guide to business continuity planning. While most businesses are aware of the need for business continuity planning to ensure staff safety and restoration of office facilities in the event of a disaster, far fewer have considered what can be done to ensure that access to data will not be compromised in the event of a disaster.

Page 10. SPECIAL BRIEFING 2 Creating and testing effective disaster recovery plans. Writing and testing a disaster recovery plan is one of the key elements of business continuity management. The separation of business continuity and disaster recovery planning between the business and IT departments creates problems. The launch of BS 25999 – a Business Continuity Management (BCM) standard links these strands together.

Page 20. PRODUCT NEWS. The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 goes online. A Cool Approach – the challenges of datacentre cooling – plus much more.

Page 26. COPYRIGHT UPDATE. Member states adopt a development agenda for WIPO. WIPO Assemblies conclude.

Page 32. TRADEMARKS UPDATE. WIPO welcomes accession by EC to Key Industrial Designs Treaty.

Page 33. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION UPDATE. ICO upholds 4 organisations’ decisions to withhold information. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ordered to release internal audit report.

Page 34. DATA PROTECTION UPDATE. CDP (Continuous Data Protection). Buzz Versus Benefit.

Page 35. PATENTS UPDATE. Fewer patent translations could save British Business over £10 a year.

Page 36-39. ONLINE SHOW PREVIEW.

Page 40. BRITISH LIBRARY UPDATE. 19th century newspapers online at The British Library. The Spoken Word: rare recordings by Graham Greene. Queen Elizabeth II, a portrait in stamps.

Page 42 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS UPDATE. Library of Congress receives collection of oral histories.

Page 46. ISSUE THEME: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UPDATE.

International copyright protection – what is WIPO? WIPO is a specialised agency of the United Nations, and its purpose is to develop and maintain a balanced intellectual property system. This article looks at the development of WIPO and its work.
Page 48 The Berne Convention. The 1886 Berne Convention is the foundation of all copyright law.

Page 50. TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE PREVIEW.

Page 54. EVENTS DIARY.

Page 56. CORRIDORS. A round-up of issues which have been exercising the UK Parliament and government agencies, with their implications for the information profession. By Tim Buckley Owen.
OPSI boxes clever in improving online access
Don’t just wait for it to happen says Information Commissioner
Government and voluntary sector agencies to collaborate on information sharing.
Killed in the rush for fast-track patent applications?
Land Registry puffs new commercial products.
Help for those who have forgotten where they left their pensions.
Critical friend helps Government to broaden goals.
When does data protection kick in?
Do we really need everyone’s DNA?
Lobby leads – better use of old money; secret no longer; what price your long lost pension?

Page 60. WORD TO THE WIRED; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE RIVALLING DESKTOPS (JONATHAN EATON). For all the claims that Google Apps will transform the current focus on individual productivity into the new Web 2.0 driven world of group productivity, can the new breed of online word processors and spreadsheets realistically knock Microsoft of its perch?

Page 62. EUROPEAN INFORMATION UPDATE (ROSALIND JOHNSON).
MEPs support a European Digital Library
EU eGovernment news
EU Court defeat for Microsoft
European Commission delays Google’s plans
Weak EU Data Protection condemned.
Europe loses as British Council concentrates on Middle East
DRIVER project.
LIFE project.

Page 64 ASLIB GROUP AND BRANCH UPDATE.

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