{"id":675,"date":"2006-06-20T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T12:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/and-one-more\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T12:50:27","slug":"and-one-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/and-one-more\/","title":{"rendered":"And one more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/the-last-week-or-so\/\">forgot to mention<\/a> what I did last Friday: a trip to SPICe, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottish.parliament.uk\/home.htm\">Scottish Parliament<\/a> Information Centre &#8211; the Parliament&#8217;s library, although it has very little in the way of physical collections, focussing very modernly on electronic sources. It also provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottish.parliament.uk\/business\/research\/index.htm\">research briefings<\/a> for MSPs and their staff. 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