Editorial

I expect that you've been wondering what's happened to Interim. We have missed an issue - but lots has been happening behind the scenes.

1999 is the 25th Anniversary of the Association and this will be marked with a special celebration after the AGM on the 21st of April at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow. It promises to be an interesting meeting with the launch of the SHINE web page and a progress report on the follow up to Enabling Access to Information.

Once business is over, Toni Bunch, founder member of ASHSL, former librarian at the Development Group, now Professor at Strathclyde University and Director of the Scottish National Science Library, will entertain us with a talk on ASHSL's early days. There will then be drinks and a buffet meal. Not to be missed!

This year also sees the new configuration of the NHS in Scotland with the setting up of new Trusts throughout the country. In addition we will soon be electing members to the new Scottish Parliament.

It is still to early to tell what these changes will have on us all, but hopefully we will see a growing commitment to NHS library and information services by the Scottish Office and others, which will lead to improvements for our users and ourselves.

The real reason for missing an issue of Interim comes down to a lack of contributions from you, the membership. Please send me any articles, book reviews, meeting reports, details of interesting web sites, comments, whatever. You can send me hard copy, a floppy disc - preferably Word 6 or Word97 - or you can email me. The contact details for contributions to Interim are on the back page.

Dorothy McGinley
Editor