Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

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've started doing some work with the Libraries Taskforce . I'd been to one of their workshops and it was pretty apparent that poten...

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...

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) may have been ridiculously over-hyped and may or may not be game-changers in academia. To be honest I...

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 . ...

It is a basic eternal and unquestionable tenet of public library life that public libraries are in decline. It was all busier and better bac...