Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

Sad to hear of the closure of UKOLN Informatics. This unit set in train and/or encouraged a wide range of digital and e-library (for those o...

Thinking about the prospect of a revision of the UK Core Specification, I got to wondering whether or not it should be a single, monolithic ...

The very excellent Ian Anstice has added a useful new page to Public Libraries News: a digest of reported "new ideas" in public li...

I'm doing some work at the moment on system permissions on a transport management system I'm responsible for, called Tranman. Partly...

I may have visited my local library for the last time today. In a couple of weeks' time it will have closed as a public library. The ...

There are many things which puzzle and perplex me about the current "we can replace paid staff with volunteers" agenda. Chief of t...

For some reason the word "Customer" has become a bête noir in some parts of The Profession, the torch-bearer of Neoliberalism. And...

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) may have been ridiculously over-hyped and may or may not be game-changers in academia. To be honest I...

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...