Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

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

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

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'm at the tidying the folders stage of my current job, which is actually the tidying the folders stage of three successive jobs. And be...

If you were to say to me: "You have to make the following changes to your library management system," my response would be: "...