Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

Well, we've committed to doing it: we chose Spydus as our new LMS just after Christmas, we're formally starting the project now and ...

Just a thought… If we ran public libraries the way that our privatised railways are run, the taxpayer would be spending more for to have to ...

I would dearly love for us to have barcodes like these or these in our library books; not just for aesthetic reasons, they help confirm 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...

Faeture (n) : An unwarranted new "feature" that buggers up a tried and tested product.

I know that QR codes are considered a bit old hat in some circles these days but I think there's still scope for doing interesting thing...

Two principles to work to: A customer should be able to use the catalogue to get within six feet of the item they want on the shelves wit...

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 joining in with A Day in the Life of a Library... Like a ton of other people I'm tweeting a few of the goings-on at work (you c...

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 ...