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Adverts for several staff will be going out soon - for a permanent Senior Librarian at Swiss Cottage to lead on Information and Reference services (replacing Gulanar Peake, who is retiring), plus a variety of p/t and f/t Librarian, Library Manager, and Library Services Assistant posts, all temporary for up to 9 months.

Ads will appear in the Camden website www.camden.gov.uk, Guardian online http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/ and library assistants in Fish4Jobs http://www.fish4.co.uk/iad/jobs.

If you live in Medway, Dartford, Swale or Gravesham, you could take advantage of free training from CVS Medway, aimed at helping people either to find work or to get better jobs.

Free courses include first aid, health and safety certificates, portable appliance testing, Level 2 security, bar work, food safety, and others.

Contact 01634 818036 or trainingdept@cvsmedway.org.uk.

Free training on detecting plagiarism, delivered by Netskills. South Camden City Learning Centre, 24 April 2008. For more information see http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/workshops/range/schplag.html

Here's an interesting article about the role of the librarian in the world of Web 2.0:

http://tametheweb.com/into-a-new-world-of-librarianship/

"The two biggest publishers in Britain are to offer dozens of likely bestsellers to read on a hand-held screen this autumn in a sign that, after many false dawns, the electronic “ebook” may finally have arrived. "

Follow this link to find out more:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/...