Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

A conversation I had in another place reminded me of all the effort that used to go into writing strategy documents and annual plans that sa...

IFLA provides a pretty comprehensive overview of the impact of COVID-19 on libraries and the known factors involved in returning to someth...

This is an interesting conversation , not least because of the multiple external disasters the library has had to deal with. For me this h...

Resuming business after closing a service — particularly after an unexpected closure — is always more work than the closing was. There are a...

This is a very promising piece of ongoing work by Libraries Hacked. "Watch" pulls together podcasts and videos, "Read"...

Encouraging and managing bottom-up change doesn't have the razzmatazz of a big transformation programme and looks (but not necessarily i...

There was a useful thread on Twitter about the normalisation of deviance, the idea that if you get away with something outside the accepted...

I toddled along to Library Camps' FailCamp recently. I thought I'd put in a pitch for a discussion about my experience with the Peo...

Been to what had been planned to be the last of this year's leaving do's (during which I heard some news suggesting there'll be ...

Having had a quick scamper through the worry list , what customer data could be shared openly? Let's start with what can't be sha...