Tuesday 13 April 2010

Y Viva Espana

It's work honestly. Later today i go to Madrid to attend a conference organised by LIBER on new library buildings. All very salient as DIT considers the move to Grangegorman. The conference title: "Planning libraries for the users of the future"

Whether it's business or pleasure, with any country i'm visiting i like to have a good grasp of their political, economic, social historical state. Easy enough with the internet but even better when you have access to a library resource like Business Source Premier, In the advanced search you can pick your nation, click on Publication Type and select Country Report and away you go. I've got in front of me for browsing on the plane (in steerage class) hard reliance info, data, backround, analysis, summaries from dependable sources like The Economist Intelligence Unit, Datamonitor, the PRS group and IHS Global Insight.
.....and at least the food in Spain should be far superior to Hungary where this conference was held the last time. see back to posts from April 2008

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