Scottish Working Forum on Official Publications is a forum for librarians, information workers and publishers working with official publications in Scotland.
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The Scottish Government is launching a website today to track and report progress towards the goals of Scotland’s new Environment Strategy: data.gov.scot/environment/.
#ScotEnviroStrat #govscot #cop26 #scottishenvironment
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A 100 years ago today Irish & UK delegates began negotiating what would become the Anglo-Irish Treaty at 10 Downing Street. Here’s a new @commonslibrary briefing paper from me on the Treaty: its origins, ratification, implementation & subsequent amendment: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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The Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill has been unanimously approved by Parliament. It means thousands of unpaid carers will receive a double payment of £462.80 this winter.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3uR7MjQ
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Today, @scotgov has introduced the Good Food Nation Bill 🍏🍓
It places duties on Ministers and public bodies to produce plans of their policies on food and set out what they will do to make those plans real.
ALT Infographic of berries with text: This Bill is the foundation upon which we will build our Good Food Nation
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rse-curious.com/old-books-ne… Old books, new technologies. Coming up on 10th August
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We've received some great nominations for the @gig_cilip Awards but we're sure that there are many more suitable nomination candidates. Accordingly the deadline for nominations has been extended to 30 July. Please consider submitting your nomination cilip.org.uk/members/group_c…
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How the UK Home Office uses stories to share knowledge. A forthcoming @gig_cilip webinar - Wed 14 July at 1.30pm (BST). Details and to book cilip.org.uk/events/EventDet… @CILIPKIM
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A lot of law sector management structures forget their library workers are professional careerists who want to develop, update and network separate to the company. Managers building this into the workplace improves the services the company pays them for.
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The SLLG is a membership group. If you share our interests in law information, you might like to join us. The form is on our website.
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We're starting a new series of interviews with some of our members published on our blog. Find out more here cilipgig.blogspot.com/2021/0… and why not consider taking part? We'd 💕💕💕💕💕 to hear from you!
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Contemplating chartership or other @CILIPinfo professional registration? We're delighted to share some tips from a recently successful candidate cilipgig.blogspot.com/2021/0…
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Time to getting your thinking caps on!!! We will be shortly launching our call for nominations for the @gig_cilip Awards 2021. Updated details to follow. Last year's Awards details at cilip.org.uk/members/group_c…
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#OnThisDay in 1890 The Forth Bridge near Edinburgh opened. In 2015 our partners at @natlibscot curated a collection to celebrate the 125th anniversary and becoming a #UNESCO world heritage site. See the collection here: webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/co… #ForthBridge #webarchiving
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We have our first committee meeting of 2021 this morning. Everyone's primed and raring to go, and it's a complete coincidence that it's #WorldBookDay2021😀. Lots to get through and plan for the year ahead, but we've already hosted two very successful member webinars in 2021.
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If you have any activity or webinar ideas, a posting for our blog cilipgig.blogspot.com/, or if you have matters that you would like *your Committee* to consider, then please do get in touch.
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Listening to Matthew Bell talk about Legislation.gov.uk and the pressures of producing legislation at such a speed and quantity. @gig_cilip
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Companies Act is the most viewed piece of Legislation on legislation.gov.uk even in these times @gig_cilip
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Great to see everyone and looking forward to next year's meetings, virtual or otherwise
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Great idea @CILIPinfo .
Just got new badge for me to highlight my achievement of being a CILIP Fellow, to put on my signature script.
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Booking is now also open for our webinar on @UkNatArchives web archiving services. Wed 3 Feb 2021, 1.30pm. Book and find out more cilip.org.uk/events/EventDet… (CILIP Members only)