Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

A couple of months back I had an interesting Twitter conversation with some local government comms folk which got me wondering why so few En...

Webjunction has just compiled an update to their Competency Index For The Library Field . It's an interesting read, not least because th...

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 . ...

If you were to say to me: "You have to make the following changes to your library management system," my response would be: "...

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 ...