Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

Am consciously neglecting this blog: a lot on at work, much of which is pretty grim, and other stuff I need to get to grips with. Let's ...

A picture of a Lighthouse Keeper's library gave me an idea: we do a lot of outreach work of one type and another and we’re looking at d...

I was chatting to a friend the other day. He's a lecturer and, like many people in the academic sector, his school was being required to...

While I was working in the garden this weekend I was sketching out some ideas for a post suggesting things that librarians could do for them...

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...

A neatly instructional little film.

Many of us need to address some organisational and systemic issues which aren’t very exciting in themselves and that we’ve been sort-of-gett...

Every so often we unearth undiscovered riches. Moving a pile of disreputable old filing cabinets out of an office the other day we discovere...

We have good people working in our libraries, should we choose to use them. Not a day goes by without something really good happening for so...

The single worst thing a manager can say is: "I assumed..." It isn't the job of managers to assume. It is their job to e...