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As the government prepares to spend £4 billion on a drive for a paperless NHS, nurses might well ask: what does it mean for me? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of migrating her patients' paper records to digital format.

States that British engineering groups expressed reservations over the government's lifelong learning green paper. Concerns of engineering groups; Identity of these groups; Comments from Andrew Ramsay, director of engineering regulation at the Engineering Council; Provisions of the green paper.

An interview with Dee Baldwin is presented, whose paper at SLA 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago, was judged one of the best. When asked about the most positive surprise that resulted from the implementation process as she looks back on the project, she mentioned that best thing was how well it was received by the students. She also talks about unsettling technology upgrades and allocation of the responsibilities to the colleagues.

The article discusses the environmental efforts of publishing company Macmillan in 2012, focusing on the company's chief executive officer (CEO) John Sargent and his plans to lower Macmillan's carbon footprint. Sargent's plan for reducing Macmillan's carbon emissions from paper usage involves making changes to its source paper, including a lowering of the basis weight of the paper used.

Interviews Elsevier Science Chairman Derk Haank regarding the growing interest among authors of scientific papers regarding who publishes them. Petition by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) to boycott any publisher who did not make the published research papers freely available six months after publications; Elsevier Science as the publisher of 20 percent of the world's journal articles; Haank's views on the relationship between PLOS and Elsevier.

This article discusses various issues related to the concept of safety and fire fighters. The article author holds that safety is a mind-set, an attitude. No amount of policy and procedure on paper can make employees work in a safe manner. The fire fighters have to believe that the rule makes sense, and they must have the ability to see that the action fire departments are asking for today will have positive results tomorrow. Fire departments must empower its employees to embrace the concept of safety, and the departments must be willing to use a large stick for those who have a tendency to resist. One can find a thousand people who can fight fire any time any place, but fire departments should want only those who are safe.

Cites the comic and editorial cartoonists' messages about the state of cartooning discussed at the Ohio State Festival of Cartoon Art. Papers and magazine's preference for editorial cartoons with innocuous jokes; Readers' search for provocative cartoons; Job description of editorial cartoonists.

Information about panels, papers, and innovations at the 54th Annual National Federation of Advanced Information Services Conference in February 2012 is presented. Topics discussed include a preview of software company Microsoft's Academic Search tool that can help track publications and citations, a discussion by director Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center concerning user content and networked information, and a discussion about hype concerning emerging technologies.

Discusses the contents of a piece of paper found crumpled on the floor of a meeting room at the recent meeting of the Information Industry Association. Unequal competition for information; Criticism against librarians who talk about freedom of information.