Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

The House of Commons Library recently published a Report on Public Libraries, an update to the report published five years ago. It's cau...

It's National Libraries Day . I could  stand at the railings outside what this time last year was my local library, pining for services ...

One of the things that has become horribly apparent over the past couple of years is the abject lack of any evidence-based government data t...

Some interesting stuff coming out about the Sieghart Review of English publish library services, including this one in The Bookseller . The ...

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...

I'm uncomfortably defensive about days spent working from home. I tell myself that on the plus side I'm not going to spend four hour...

We've changed the way that we do the news items on our web site . Up to now I've just been plonking new copy at the top of a "n...