Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

I'm always a sucker for flattery so it was flattering to be asked to go along to one of the workshops that the Library Task Force has be...

Ken Chad's published his notes on some of the work being started on moving forward from the UKCS to a new, possibly less monolithic, way...

Ebook Friendly recently posted its " 8 technologies we would love to see " and it's an interesting — and not unrealistic — sel...

Fiction genres are sometimes a bit bewildering, especially when they are very-locally defined. Negotiating the thin-but-lethal minefield tha...

I've been invited onto the group Ken Chad's pulling together to have a look at what comes after the UK Core Specification for libra...

One of the things I'm wiggling round inconsequentially like a loose tooth in the back of my head at the moment is a set of notes and che...

One of the things that has become horribly apparent over the past couple of years is the abject lack of any evidence-based government data t...

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...