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...

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 ...

Why did I get into a bate about visitor figures the other day? It's largely because of the spate of recent reports and commentaries abou...

From an operations management perspective there is some use for library visitor count data: It's useful to have an idea of when your p...

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...

I've had my go at responding to the  libraries deliver survey . Here are a few of my thoughts. I've tried to be positive, honest. ...

The news wires and social media feeds were full of public library news today. Quite properly, Ian Anstice's Public Library News provi...

DCMS have issued a consultation on the "draft Ambition document" " Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in Englan...

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

This . Go and sign the bloody petition already.