Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

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

Back in the old days, Oh Best Beloved, when your parents were still young and didn't have mortgages, I used to work with council one-sto...

Net neutrality is a topic creating quite a lot of heat at the moment, due to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's taking a look ...

I would dearly love for us to have barcodes like these or these in our library books; not just for aesthetic reasons, they help confirm th...

I was chatting to a friend the other day. He's a lecturer and, like many people in the academic sector, his school was being required to...

While I was working in the garden this weekend I was sketching out some ideas for a post suggesting things that librarians could do for them...

A neatly instructional little film.

The single worst thing a manager can say is: "I assumed..." It isn't the job of managers to assume. It is their job to e...