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  • 8 - Promoting excellence: shadowing the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals

    • By Kasey Butler, marketing communications professional with over ten years’ experience, based in London, Eileen Simpson, freelance development officer for the CILIP Carnegie, Joy Court, past chair of CILIP Youth Libraries Group and currently the National Coordinator for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals
  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 131-152

  • Summary

    Introduction

    CILIP, and formerly The Library Association, have been recognizing and rewarding outstanding literature for children and young people since the Carnegie Medal was established and first awarded to Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post in 1937. A complementary award, the Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding illustration, followed 20 years later and was first awarded in 1956 to Edward Ardizzone for Tim All Alone.

    The Carnegie Medal, the UK's first and, arguably, still the most prestigious award for children's literature in Britain, was established with the intention to:

    pinpoint books of excellence in order to provide a basis for selection for anyone attempting to produce a collection of worth to young people … [as well as to] raise standards in a field where the quality of the books in the Victorian and Edwardian periods had declined considerably.

    (Barker, 1998, xi)

    While recognizing quality children's literature was an aim from the outset, promoting high-quality children's books to both the wider library community and the public was not originally a primary goal. However, the introduction of shortlisting within the judging process enabled a clear direction for promoting and celebrating the best children's fiction published in the UK the previous year and a wider platform to promote the eventual winning titles as well.

    In addition the published short list has become a successful platform from which to promote reading. The shadowing scheme born in the early 1990s has developed an infrastructure that schools can use to stimulate reading. Each year CILIP invites reading groups in libraries, schools and other reading environments to sign up for the shadowing scheme. Reading activity takes place from April to June each year, from the moment that the short lists are revealed, to the final winners’ announcement. The shadowing process is supported by a dedicated website – www.ckg.org.uk – through which CILIP offers an exciting range of online resources. Once the short list is announced, young readers begin the process of reading books, engaging in discussion in their shadowing groups and tracking their own and other groups’ reading-related activity online.

  • 11 - Adventures in the book trade: libraries and partnerships

    • By Jacob Hope, the Reading Development Manager for Lancashire County Council and is a freelance children's book consultant
  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 187-200

  • Summary

    Introduction

    Libraries have always been about connections: connecting readers to the past, to other cultures and to the vast range of ideas and thinking that document the human race. In the present day, the cultural context within which libraries sit has changed, and there are expectations that libraries should now act as community hubs or offer access to a range of local council services. Whether social, creative or knowledge-based, connections still remain at the heart of the efficient library service. This chapter aims to emphasize and advocate the importance of connections with the book trade as a key component of successful, imaginative and innovative reading development work.

    Issues and opportunities

    What do we mean when we talk about the book trade? It can refer to agents, who act as intermediaries for authors, negotiating the best deals and selling the rights to manuscripts and ideas – the raw products of the book industry. It can, of course, refer to the publishers, who collaborate with authors to hone those ideas and manuscripts and who package, design and market them to create books that inform, educate and entertain. It can refer to wholesalers, who establish the lines of supply for those books, ensuring that the titles people want and need are available to them. Lastly, it can refer to retailers, who sell the books to the public, organizing displays and promotions to aid that transaction.

    Aspects of the work that libraries are engaged in contribute directly to the book trade, particularly in terms of supply and procurement. Other aspects don't always have that same synergy, and there can be tension between the commercial drive and the ethos of reading development, the desire to engender situations where new readers feel that spark of excitement when a book truly resonates with them and, on the occasions when that happens sequentially, developing a new, dedicated and ardent reader. A prime example of this tension occurred in 2008 when the Children's Book Group of the Publishers Association tried to ensure that all books were age banded. This was based on quantitative and qualitative research commissioned by the Publishers Association and carried out by Acacia Avenue which suggested that gift purchasing of books might be significantly increased if more guidance was featured on the books themselves. Information about this can be found on the Publishers Association website (www.publishers.org.uk).

  • 14 - Embedding records management in the business

  • from Part 4 - Record-keeping approaches
  • Edited by Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux, Rod Stone, Geoffrey Yeo
  • Book:
    Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 199-216

  • Summary

    Introduction

    This chapter draws upon existing international records management standards, as well as new approaches and products, to suggest some sustainable ways of embedding the management of records into the business processes of a financial institution, to support (amongst other things) its compliance and litigation response. Suggestions and recommendations are made about how such standards and models can be made more relevant, recognized or usable by the financial services sector for meeting compliance, litigation and other business needs.

    In examining these issues, this chapter also considers the approaches taken to records management in a range of Australian financial institutions. Some of these organizations are solely Australian-based and some have global operations with headquarters and ownership predominantly based in Australia.

    Active or extensive use of ISO 15489, the international records management standard, or of other standards for records management, is low in the context of Australian financial institutions. However, the principles and methods used by such institutions are predominantly based on those standards. This is due to the reasonably widespread knowledge of such tools, employment of information management professionals (with the requisite knowledge), and increasing regulatory-based compliance regimes emerging in the Australian private sector, including, and to some extent focusing on, the financial services sector.

    Business drivers for records management

    In the private sector, and the financial services sector in particular, there are common business drivers for better or best practice in records management:

  • • working within and meeting the governance, risk and compliance framework

  • • improving business efficiency, including cost avoidance.

    • Governance, risk and compliance

    Financial institutions commonly operate within robust governance, risk and compliance frameworks, to ensure ethical practice and financial responsibility. The COSO Internal Control – Integrated Framework of 1992 is one example. Developed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations, www.coso.org, this framework defines internal controls to provide reasonable assurance that the organization's objectives are achieved in the effectiveness and efficiency of operations (including safeguarding of assets), reliability of financial reporting, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. A risk-management framework (e.g. using the ISO 31000 series of risk-management standards, or COSO Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework 2004) is another primary framework, often incorporating governance and compliance functions.

  • 10 - The sport of reading

    • By Celeste Harrington, long history of involvement in books and reading, Wayne Mills, specializes in children's literature and has a particular interest in boys’ literacy and graphic novels
  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 171-186

  • Summary

    Introduction

    With such an emphasis on reading today it seems unimaginable that 20 years ago good readers went largely unrecognized. Prowess in mathematics and sports was more often rewarded than any propensity for reading. With this as the backdrop, the International Kids’ Lit Quiz™ was created in 1991 when Wayne Mills, then a lecturer at Waikato University, realized that students were not being recognized for their reading ability and so formulated and designed the Kids’ Lit Quiz.™ The intention of the quiz was to formulate a series of general knowledge literary questions similar in format to Trivial Pursuit, except that all the wedges would be different literary genres. Of course in those early years the quiz was much smaller than it is today and was not internationally known. It has grown from 14 teams in 1991 to over 1000 teams on three continents. This chapter will examine just what factors make the Kids’ Lit Quiz™ so phenomenally successful in promoting reading and provides insight into the motivational aspects of an international literature quiz that brings readers in the 10–13 age range together from all over the world to participate in an international literary challenge

    History and ethos

    The Kids’ Lit Quiz™ is open to students aged from 10 to 13 years. School grade eligibility, however, is likely to vary from country to country. The National Endowment for the Arts (National Endowment for the Arts, 2004) found that this was the very age group at which reading began to decline (calamitously), and therefore it was vital to maintain students’ interest in reading. The age composition defines the scope of the books that are read for the quiz. This means that adult authors like Jodi Picoult, Dan Brown and Alice Sebold are not included in the quiz (although some students may be reading them). However, young adult novels such as The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness or The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman may be included. The participants in the quizzes have all read picture books and junior fiction and thus have these literary experiences in common.

  • Introduction to the series

    • By Geoffrey Yeo, Department of Information Studies at University College London
  • Edited by Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux, Rod Stone, Geoffrey Yeo
  • Book:
    Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp vii-x

  • Summary

    RECORDS AND ARCHIVES are important resources for individuals, organizations and the wider community. Records are created in the course of the functions and activities of organizations and the personal lives of individuals, and are preserved and maintained to support business and accountability and for cultural use. They provide evidence of, and information about, the actions of their creators and the environment in which those actions occurred. They extend and corroborate human and corporate memory and play a critical role in maintaining awareness of how the present is shaped by the past. Records are kept by almost everyone, but their management (and especially their medium-term and long-term management) is a professional discipline with its own distinctive body of knowledge. Within the discipline, ‘records’ and ‘archives’ are sometimes used as synonyms, but in English-speaking countries ‘archives’ usually denotes records which have been recognized as having longterm value. The term ‘archives’ can also be used more widely, to refer to collections of historical materials maintained by organizations, individuals, families or community groups, or to the locations where such materials are held.

    The series Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives aims both to disseminate and to add to the body of professional knowledge and understanding. Each text in the series is intended to offer a detailed overview of one or more key topics. The archives and records management discipline is experiencing rapid changes – not least as a result of the digital revolution – and the series will fully ref lect the new technological context as well as the societal changes and governmental initiatives in many countries that are placing new emphases on compliance, accountability, access to information and community relations. Some volumes in the series will address theoretical and strategic issues relating to the creation, management and interpretation of records and archives or their role in society; others will give practical guidance for those seeking successful and effective ways of managing them and presenting them to users. The authors come from many countries worldwide and are recognized experts in the field.

  • 4 - Moves towards a common regulatory framework for financial services in the European Union

  • from Part 1 - Regulatory and legal compliance
  • Edited by Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux, Rod Stone, Geoffrey Yeo
  • Book:
    Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 41-60

  • Summary

    Introduction

    Record-keeping in a financial institution authorized by a financial services regulator is sometimes thought of as a bureaucratic issue. However, the keeping of records is of central importance to an institution's regulatory functions, as it forms a key component in the relationship with its regulator.

    Where a financial institution has poor records that cannot properly demonstrate compliance with the necessary rules or show effective regulatory controls, it will not enjoy the full confidence of its regulator. In addition, should an institution have the necessary records but have them poorly organized, the regulatory relationship will still be damaged. Regulators will be unimpressed when institutions produce requested records after a lengthy delay. Late or incomplete filing of regulatory records will also undermine an institution's relationship with its regulator.

    For many institutions, compliance with the record-keeping requirements of regulators cannot be viewed in isolation. The requirements will often be incorporated into a wider compliance policy covering the retention and destruction of records. Regulatory requirements are not the only motivation for such a policy and there may well be conf licts between them. For example, records are retained on the basis that there may be litigation in the future, but European data protection laws require institutions not to keep personal data for longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was originally obtained.

    Financial institutions operating within the European Union (EU) are faced with multiple layers of regulation. Such regulation comes from:

  • • international agreements and the high-level principles advocated by international bodies (e.g. the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors [the ‘G20’], the Bank for International Settlements and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision)

  • • the institutions of the EU, led by the European Commission, producing a variety of measures including directives, regulations, recommendations and communications

  • • national laws and regulations, including those that transpose international principles and EU legislation.

    • This chapter focuses on the degree to which a common regulatory framework is being established in the EU. The UK is used as a case study, with some additional information from Germany, Italy and The Netherlands.

  • 2 - How children begin to read

    • By Clare Wood, Professor of Psychology in Education at Coventry University and is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Research in Reading
  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 15-28

  • Summary

    Introduction

    One of the reasons why I work in the area of children's reading development is because my brother experienced substantial difficulties learning to read and write and was finally identified as experiencing developmental dyslexia at the age of 35. I watched him labour over reading activities and struggle with expressing himself in writing, and I watched the impact that these experiences had on his confidence and behaviour during childhood and early adulthood. His difficulties contrasted starkly with my own love of reading and writing, and this made me reflect on why he experienced so much difficulty in something that I saw as effortless and enjoyable.

    As a researcher, I know that reading is something that is learned, and therefore is something that must be taught. Children at risk of reading and writing difficulties can be identified early in childhood and supported with the right tuition and resources both at home and at school. My own work has been concerned with these issues of early identification and effective intervention, but there is still a great deal to be learned about effective literacy tuition.

    This chapter is intended to offer a simple introduction to the topic of early reading development, which will give an idea of the initial stages that readers go through on their journey towards skilled, fluent reading. This is followed by some more practical material on what skills and activities appear to be important for reading development at different stages of the journey. The aim of this material is to offer the reader some food for thought on how both typically and atypically developing readers can be supported during these early stages of reading through activities that you can try out both as an individual and professionally in the context of library-based sessions with children. Much of this is based on my own research interests and personal views, and what is offered here is a taster of what the research literature has to offer, rather than being an exhaustive overview of everything we currently know on the topic. I hope that you find it as interesting as I do.

  • 6 - Information privacy in the USA

  • from Part 1 - Regulatory and legal compliance
    • By Regan Adams, Founder of iRisk Tech Law/iRisk Solutions LLC
  • Edited by Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux, Rod Stone, Geoffrey Yeo
  • Book:
    Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 77-88

  • Summary

    Introduction

    A transformation of the global privacy landscape is now occurring as a result of new regulation, legislation, rapid changes in business processes and advances in technology. These trends are interconnected, and their interconnectedness also entails greater dependence on the internet and significant evolving threats in cyber-intrusion, information theft and identity theft. For a financial institution, privacy and safekeeping requirements grow with the increasing complexity of global markets, advances in the use of new technologies, the desire to improve and procure new financial products and, most importantly, because of a fiduciary duty to maintain and assure the integrity and authenticity of corporate, customer and employee information.

    There is no common global definition of information privacy across financial markets. It has different definitions with different requirements across numerous distinct legal and regulatory frameworks. A financial institution subject to the laws of the jurisdictions where it transacts business must know what these laws are and how its business processes and technology platforms function, if it is to comply. Compliance is not always possible, but risk impact needs to be assessed and managed. Privacy protocols vary by jurisdiction and by what sector governs the business. Today, information privacy in financial markets is a chequerboard of legislation and political issues coloured by cultural differences and data protection priorities.

    The terms ‘data protection’ and ‘information privacy’ often cause confusion. ‘Data protection’ usually refers to the statutory rights of individuals in European Union (EU) member states to control access to their personal data; in the USA the term is often used in information technology to refer to data security. ‘Information privacy’ sometimes covers all types of information but at other times is used to refer only to personal information. Personal information is data that will identify a person in their private non-public self. In the financial sector, privacy information regulation has different definitions and scope such as personally identifiable information, non-public personal information, customer and/or consumer information and employee information, which includes a subset of sensitive personal information about, for example, health, race or religion.

  • 5 - The Summer Reading Challenge in libraries: a continuing success

    • By Anne Sarrag, worked for 25 years in the field of children's books and reading, starting with the Book Bus, Lynne Taylor, worked with the Summer Reading Challenge since it first started in 1999, Natasha Roe, published author and writer who now runs the communications and marketing consultancy Red Pencil, Geraldine Brennan, journalist and consultant specializing in children's literature and reading.
  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 71-92

  • Summary

    What inspires 750,000 children in the UK to read over 3 million books during the summer holidays for pleasure?

    The Summer Reading Challenge is one of the largest creative reading opportunities available to children in the UK. It introduces children to one of the best free resources for their minds that they have on their doorsteps – the local library – and focuses on developing skills that are vital for their life chances and life skills – reading and a love of reading.

    Alan Yentob, Creative Director of the BBC, speaking at the Summer Reading Challenge Conference 2009: Celebrating 10 Years and Looking Ahead

    The Summer Reading Challenge is great fun for everyone. It's free, it's simple: read six books over the summer holidays, chosen from the library. There are stickers and incentives to collect along the way to keep children motivated, and at the end they have a real sense of achievement, marked by libraries and schools issuing Summer Reading Challenge certificates and medals, hosting celebration events in libraries, schools, theatres and other community venues.

    The scheme benefits children in several ways. Not only are they rewarded for completing the Challenge, they are encouraged to swap ideas and recommendations. The idea is that they form closer relationships with their libraries, hopefully becoming ‘readers for life’. ‘The children have the freedom to choose their own books,’ says The Reading Agency's Lynne Taylor. ‘It gives them a real sense of personal achievement that they associate with the library.’

    We also know that this simple idea makes a real difference to children's reading habits. Research has shown that children who take part are more enthusiastic about reading and that taking part can help prevent the ‘summer holiday reading dip’, when they lose their reading momentum and motivation (Kennedy and Bearne, 2010).

    This chapter will look at how the Summer Reading Challenge works. We will trace its beginning, expansion and development over the last 13 years – working with schools and other partners, growing into a catalyst for volunteering in libraries and now running in countries overseas. We will examine the effects this has had on the provision of resources and opportunities for library staff, and the difference it makes to children and young people.

  • 11 - Authenticity and evidential weight of digital evidence in legal proceedings

  • from Part 3 - Litigation-related issues
    • By Stephen Mason, Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
  • Edited by Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux, Rod Stone, Geoffrey Yeo
  • Book:
    Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 149-164

  • Summary

    Introduction

    The aim of this chapter is to set out the principal factors concerning authenticity and evidential weight that a judge might consider when dealing with digital evidence, a form of evidence that is now ubiquitous in the financial services sector. The intention is to provide a general, high-level outline for readers who are not legal specialists. The chapter is primarily based on English law, because it is not possible to provide a comparative survey, given that such a survey would in itself be an extraordinarily long text.

    First, the types of evidence that can be introduced into court are considered, whether evidence can be admitted and how a judge assesses the truth of the evidence. Three definitions are also discussed, what is meant in a legal context by ‘document’, ‘writing’ and ‘record’, all of which are important when introducing evidence into legal proceedings. A general outline of electronic signatures follows, setting out the different forms they can take. This is important because different forms of electronic signature are used in the cyberworld in greater volumes than manuscript signatures in the physical world.

    Two technical concepts are then brief ly discussed, ‘hearsay’ and ‘presumptions’. Hearsay is now virtually abolished in civil proceedings in England and Wales, and the concept of hearsay is not even relevant in some jurisdictions, such as Norway (Hjort and Willassen, 2008, 654–5).

    It is possible that organizations wishing to adduce digital evidence in the future may have difficulties in proving its authenticity if this is challenged by the opposing party, and presumptions about a computer working properly may not be sufficient to enable the evidence to be included without first calling appropriate witnesses. Video tape and security camera evidence is considered before a brief introduction to the duties of each party to preserve and disclose evidence before trial, and the sanctions that might be applied if evidence is destroyed or falsified.

    Types of evidence

    Broadly (this is not the same for every jurisdiction in the world), evidence falls into various categories, as set out below.

  • 10 - Records management considerations in global strategic outsourcing

  • from Part 2 - Balancing risk and return
  • Edited by Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux, Rod Stone, Geoffrey Yeo
  • Book:
    Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 133-146

  • Summary

    Introduction

    In the past decade, the financial services industry has been an aggressive pioneer of outsourcing. In 2007, the global estimated value of outsourcing contracts was US$23.6 billion (Plunkett Research, 2007). Outsourcing involves the transfer of the management and/or day-to-day execution of an entire business function to an external service provider. The client organization and the supplier enter into a contractual agreement that defines the transferred services. The client agrees to procure the services from the supplier for the term of the contract. Often the supplier acquires people, assets or other resources from the client in order to perform the outsourced function. Business functions typically outsourced include information technology, human resources, facilities, real estate management and accounting. Many organizations also outsource customer support and call centre functions.

    Although it is increasingly common for financial institutions to outsource records storage, tape storage and the performance of traditional records management functions, the focus of this chapter is the risks to an institution's records when undertaking a large strategic outsourcing initiative involving a single business function or multiple functions previously performed in-house. In a strategic outsourcing initiative the supplier provides specialized capabilities that supplement existing capabilities in a financial institution's value chain. Such an arrangement produces value within supply chains beyond those benefits achieved through cost economies.

    A strategic outsourcing may involve some degree of offshoring. ‘Offshoring’ is the transfer of a business function to another country, regardless of whether the work is outsourced or stays within the original financial institution. With increasing globalization of outsourcing suppliers, the distinction between outsourcing and offshoring will become less clear over time. The globalization of outsourcing operating models has resulted in new terms such as ‘nearshoring’, ‘noshoring’ and ‘rightshoring’ that ref lect a changing mix of business locations.

    A scan of daily newspapers would provide ample illustration of the risks to a financial institution's records that can materialize if insufficient attention is paid to the issue of records and information management as part of an outsourcing arrangement. In 2008, for example, the Bangalore Cyber Crime Police arrested an employee of an outsourced electronic data-processing unit of one global bank in a case of data theft and misuse of confidential information. The total loss in this particular case was estimated at UK£2,333,000.

  • 9 - Choice and motivation: local book awards

    • By Jean Wolstenholme, Children and Young People's Development Manager in Lancashire Libraries, Jacob Hope, the Reading Development Manager for Lancashire County Council and is a freelance children's book consultant
  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 153-170

  • Summary

    Introduction

    A book awards programme that is devised and run in their immediate locality offers young people a unique opportunity to respond to texts, to encounter the past, to imagine different ways of leading their lives and to come into contact with new ideas and thinking. Rigorous discussion and debate arise as a consequence of appraising the books, and awards present an ideal way to break down some of the stereotypes that perpetuate notions about boys not reading and young people's apathy.

    The longest-running local book award in the UK is the Lancashire Book of the Year. It was first awarded in 1987 to a relatively unknown Philip Pullman for the first of his Sally Lockhart novels, The Ruby in the Smoke. The award was the first local one where young people were solely responsible for the judging, selecting their own short list in addition to choosing the overall winner. This chapter will focus on the Lancashire Book of the Year, exploring some of the challenges and opportunities that arise from running local book awards. It will include practical methodologies for helping to embed awards by maximizing their impact and ensuring sustainability.

    A brief history

    The 1980s were a rich era not only for the creation of children's books, but also for celebrating core excellence within the field. A host of awards gave opportunities for authors, illustrators and individual books to gain recognition. The Library Association-administered Carnegie and Greenaway Medals were flourishing, respectively recognizing excellence in fiction for children and in illustrated books for children. The Guardian Award for Children's Fiction was similarly an established part of the landscape of children's literature. Newcomers during the decade included the Kurt Maschler Award, presented in recognition of a synergy between text and illustration, and the Mother Goose Award, which gave the chance to reward new talent in the field of children's book illustration. The winners of all of these awards, however, were determined by adult commentators on the world of children's books.

  • 2 - Conflicts of laws in multiple jurisdictions

  • from Part 1 - Regulatory and legal compliance
    • By Ed Sautter, Partner at Mayer Brown International LLP
  • Edited by Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux, Rod Stone, Geoffrey Yeo
  • Book:
    Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 17-32

  • Summary

    Introduction

    This chapter considers the extent to which the fact that different countries have different requirements for the retention or disposal of records creates issues for a financial institution that operates internationally.

    The chapter also considers the effect upon international financial institutions of rules requiring the disclosure of records in the context of litigation or regulatory supervision and enforcement. The expressions ‘discovery’ and ‘disclosure’ are used throughout this chapter. Discovery is the term applied in the USA and disclosure is the term applied in England and Wales following changes to the Civil Procedure Rules in 1999.

    Financial institutions conducting business internationally will frequently find themselves subject to obligations concerning the production and/or retention of records in which the laws or regulatory requirements of more than one jurisdiction may be relevant. For instance, an obligation on a financial institution situated in jurisdiction A to produce records, where those records are held (whether physically or electronically) in jurisdiction B, potentially engages the legal or regulatory rules of both jurisdictions. Where (as is commonly the case) the relevant rules in the two jurisdictions conflict, a financial institution will find itself obliged to find a way of reconciling these opposing obligations, which may involve obtaining the requisite protection from appropriate courts or regulators.

    This chapter will look at the discovery/disclosure rules of certain major jurisdictions in Europe, North America and Asia and how they operate extraterritorially. In this context it will consider the ‘blocking’ statutes of certain jurisdictions, whereby (often supported by criminal law sanctions) the potential extraterritorial effect of other countries’ discovery/disclosure rules are countered by ‘local’ prohibitions on provision of such records. The effect of bank/customer confidentiality will also be considered in the international context.

    The chapter will also brief ly review the operation of the Hague Convention, a mechanism by which parties can seek, in civil proceedings in one jurisdiction, records in another jurisdiction relevant to those proceedings. There will then follow a brief consideration of issues arising from the operation of the European Data Protection Directive and, in particular, its effect upon the transfer of personal data out of the European Union (EU) in the context of discovery/disclosure requests.

  • 1 - It's never too soon to start

    • By Wendy Cooling, taught English in London schools for 20 years before becoming head of the children's section of Booktrust
  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    [T]he first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

    (Plato, 428–348 BC)

    Introduction

    We all know, almost by instinct, that reading is a good thing, and we know that it is good to read to young children, but it took the Bookstart project, piloted in 1992, to support this belief with research evidence. This chapter is, in a way, a celebration of reading and a celebration of the joy that parents, carers and children experience when they share stories, pictures and rhymes as a regular and important part of their lives. This is not about teaching children to read – others are dealing with that – but about the practicalities and the benefits of reading to children from the very start of their lives.

    Reading is still a good thing and, even as technological advances offer different ways of delivering text and pictures, reading continues to be central in life, and certainly in the process of education. Feeling good about books will make children keen to get to school and to learn to read, and the more they read the better readers they will become. Fast, fluent readers who have developed reading stamina will deal well with the whole curriculum and its reading demands and will grow into adults who have reading as a resource for the whole of their lives. They will be able to use books for pleasure, information, experience, solace, escape and so much more, and their lives will be enriched by their ability to access, by whatever means, the mass of fiction and non-fiction now available.

    Pleasurable early reading experiences give babies and young children positive feelings about books. When a baby touches a small bath-book in the water and listens to someone who is known and loved talk about the duck and the story and is lifted from the bath, wrapped in a warm, fluffy towel, and cuddled on a knee and invited to look and listen as a beautiful picture book is read and talked about, they begin to know that books are good things.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Joy Court
  • Book:
    Read to Succeed
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    23 August 2011, pp xvii-xxx

  • Summary

    ‘Read to Live’ – all of the contributors to this book would very much agree with Gustav Flaubert's (1857) motto and, in all their different voices and with all their very different experiences and knowledge, they share with me the absolute and fundamental belief that it is essential for the life chances of every child, everywhere, that they can read.

    In this introduction I will highlight some of the UK policy framework and international research evidence that underpins this belief. Although most of the contributors are from the UK and reflect UK experience, the issues faced and strategies developed are more universal. Every country will have its own political agenda, but readers will be able to recognize how campaigners for libraries and reading have used the current context to best advantage, and will gain insight from this. Thus the subsequent chapters will take us from the very youngest potential readers to young people on the fringes of society in some of the most deprived socio-economic neighbourhoods in the UK, covering some of the most innovative and yet long-standing and successful reading promotion strategies in the world. We have envisaged our readers as those who are trying to find out the background and context to child reader development in libraries and schools and to equip themselves to take this development forward. They may be a student librarian, a teacher or consultant concerned with reading and literacy, a practitioner in either field with new responsibilities or an established practitioner or manager looking for ideas and inspiration.

    As former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, put it so beautifully in an article in The Times in 2009:

    Without the sunlight of literature children cannot grow as they should. We know that from books come knowledge and understanding, that they are a source of infinite joy and fun, that they stimulate imagination and creativity, that they open eyes and minds and hearts. It is through the power and music and magic of stories and poems that children can expand their own intellectual curiosity, develop the empathy and awareness that they will need to tackle the complexities of their own emotions, of the human condition in which they find themselves. And it's through books that we can learn the mastery of words, the essential skill that will enable us to express ourselves well enough to achieve our potential in the classroom and beyond.

    (Morpurgo, 2009)

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