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The article focuses on the promotion of the nursing profession in Great Britain. Local papers play a critical role when trying to reaching out to the general public. They possess distinct ability of capturing the attention of readers by presenting a neighborhood at an angle that truly characterizes the local community.

Recounts the author's experience working for the Community News Division of the "L.A. Times." Advantages of working for the community division; Tips for new journalism graduates; Responsibilities of a news assistant.

This article presents the author's comments on issues related to a federated approach to the library profession. The federated approach would include many individual professional societies dealing with the specific professional concerns that so dominate our thinking, and an umbrella organization that takes care of issues of general and larger concern. The models for such an approach already exist, in such bodies as the American Institute of Physics and the American federation of Information Processing Societies. They can provide headquarters services for those smaller member societies that care to purchase them rather than do it themselves. They can also run large exhibit shows and an employment clearinghouse, but professional paper sessions fit better at more narrowly specific and thematic meetings. There are issues for which divisions and round tables might want to take stands of their own, and in a decentralized environment that is permissible. There might even be disagreements, and I am bothered by the insistence by some legislators that we must provide a united position. That makes it easy for them, but it ignores the fact that we are a diverse group. When we are united, that makes it truly noteworthy.

This article reports that engineers seeking professional registration can access their MPDS plan and progress updates over the Internet. They and their employers, can also submit forms, reports and records to a secure website linked to the IMechE' s but accessible at www.thenipds.org.uk. The e-MPDS system records postgraduate engineers' progress towards accreditation and stores evidence supporting their achievements. The system removes the need for paper-based records and dual logging within companies and the IMechE.