Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

I can't say that I'm impressed with the notion of replacing public libraries with "community libraries," especially not wh...

I may have visited my local library for the last time today. In a couple of weeks' time it will have closed as a public library. The ...

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 admit it, I missed the boat. By a long chalk. And so I didn't submit my views to the latest public consultation on public libraries . ...

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...

We have good people working in our libraries, should we choose to use them. Not a day goes by without something really good happening for so...

Food for thought in one of the TED lectures. In this one , Ethan Zuckerman talks about the need to open up your online world and read the ne...

Reading Agency and Department of Information Science at Loughborough University have just issued a report — " Public library activity i...

A very nice presentation on Michael Stephens' "Tame The Web" site. I particularly like the slides which show some unflinching...