Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

Once upon a time, back when the millennium bug was a thing — or we thought it was — the Director of Recreation & Community Services as w...

It's interesting that the report on the national digital presence for public libraries finally saw the light of day at the same time th...

The very excellent Ian Anstice has added a useful new page to Public Libraries News: a digest of reported "new ideas" in public li...

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 ...

Projects and events are finite but, unless you're a journeyman project manager or an events manager, they have to live in the context of...

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 . ...

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

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...

There's an overview of shared services on the SCONUL site . Although this is written from an academic perspective there are currently to...

I got to thinking the other day about if/how delivering library services electronically had any positive effect on equality issues. I impose...