Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

Reading Agency and Department of Information Science at Loughborough University have just issued a report — " Public library activity i...

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

A while back I had a bit of a play with some pictures of libraries, turning them into kaleidoscope images . I said that I'd come back a ...

I'm not yet a convert to Twitter. I've been having a play with paper.li and have converted my Twitter into a daily newspaper . And s...

The Library 101 Project has produced a lovably geeky ' video experience ' with a serious message behind it that's worth a look....

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

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

Remember the old days when you could go to the Jiscmail site to browse the archives on a discussion list, enter the name of the list you wa...

I wanted front-line staff to have the opportunity for a bit of structured brainstorming amongst themselves without (at this stage) being pro...

With the best will in the world, all of our catalogues will have a few skeletons in the closet. Human beings being human beings there's ...