Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

Projects and events are finite but, unless you're a journeyman project manager or an events manager, they have to live in the context of...

There was an  article in today's Guardian about the Dyslexie font which is designed to be bottom-heavy to help people with Dyslexia: th...

Project-Q in the Netherlands is a nice, simple example of the use of QR codes to support a literacy campaign. I know QR codes are old hat a...

Some interesting stuff coming out about the Sieghart Review of English publish library services, including this one in The Bookseller . The ...

November is Picture Book Month , one of very many international initiatives for encouraging reading and literacy. Some of these are set up f...

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 — ...