Monthly Archives: February 2011

Monaco film festival award

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Frank Norman

I was surprised to see some familiar faces on the front cover of my local freesheet newspaper recently. This paper, The Archer, is not a typical freesheet, but a community-produced monthly newspaper which has a good deal of local content, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Film | 3 Comments

Seven sins of science writing

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Frank Norman

I was never trained as an editor, but a few years ago I found myself as joint editor of our Institute’s annual volume of essays on science, aimed at a lay(-ish) audience. For the first few years I worked on … Continue reading →

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Ethical retrieval

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Frank Norman

It may surprise you to know that librarians have codes of professional ethics. The main  UK membership organisation for librarians,  CILIP, requires its members to follow its ethical code; the American Library Association have something similar.  Subject classification and indexing … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Searching | 5 Comments