Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

This is a frustrating time for me, I admit: we're in the process of recommissioning our OPAC and I can see all sorts of possibilities wi...

A belated tip of the hat to Steve Thomas at the University of Adelaide for providing MARC records for Project Gutenberg titles . This is imm...

Back in the old days, Oh Best Beloved, when your parents were still young and didn't have mortgages, I used to work with council one-sto...

Net neutrality is a topic creating quite a lot of heat at the moment, due to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's taking a look ...

We're at the stage in the evolution of the AGMA library consortium where we're starting to work through the practical — and legal — ...

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...