Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

I was digging round on an old laptop looking for a couple of photos when I bumped into this. Back in 2007 I was the library service's un...

Webjunction has just compiled an update to their Competency Index For The Library Field . It's an interesting read, not least because th...

A friend and colleague was beating herself up the other day for having somehow failed one of her work experience people. The upshot of her a...

This is the Prezi I did for today's Staff Conference to try and provoke a bit of discussion about digital inclusion. The main aim is to ...

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...

Excellent day out at "Liver and Mash," the latest Mashed Libraries event , despite a stinking cold. For the first half hour I ...

(Yet another thank-you to Phil Bradley !) Ofsted has produced a report - " The safe use of new technologies " - in response to the...

I recently read an article about funding pressures on libraries and one comment in particular struck me: "We may be entering an age of...

There's a nice diagram of the Reflective Diary/Journal Process on the Businessballs site. I'm forever telling people that "exp...

Johnsone County Libraries have posted a bunch of videos to aid early literacy on YouTube. These are a lovely way to show what the library ca...

I should have used this diagram in our Web 2.0 workshop .

There's a nice bit of live-blogging of a useful workshop discussion on the ALA Learning web site . Don't be put off that the results...

We had a one-day staff conference on 21st October. As many people as possible got together at the Wheatsheaf Library for a programme of work...

This Flickr post provides an easy-to-use, step-by-step set of instructions for a pumpkin-themed storytime. This is cheap, technically easy ...