Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

I'm glad to see that CILIP's taking a more active part in the fight against the destruction of the public library service. It's ...

In the new year I'm going to be delivering some training sessions to colleagues in my team, showing them how to support the library syst...

I'm putting together a lot of documentation and training materials these days so I'm always on the lookout for helpful ideas. My sty...

Ken Chad's put together a schematic derived from the initial discussions that have been going on about a new generation of core specific...

There's a lot said and done about work/life balance: we log our times, we do the sums, we moan and groan, but one thing tends to go unde...

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...