Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

It being the end of year and it being a time for reflection and review and that I thought I'd put down a few thoughts on a process that...

When we migrated from Dynix to Spydus I was keen that we didn't lose more management information than we needed. I ran copies of the can...

Well, jigger me: we did it. We went live with Spydus today with scarcely any incidents save senior Library Service managers emailing the Spy...

Good news: we've got the TEST versions of OPAC and the resource discovery module, working and they look quite nice. Bad news: we'...

It's daft really: the hard slog of the past few months has felt like a phoney war, despite the fact that there's been a lot of work ...

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.