Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

The data about the people registered with a library is at one and the same time the most potentially useful and the most potentially dangero...

In principle stock data is much the least problematic data set held by libraries when it comes to trying to map it and potentially share it ...

Over the Summer I've been doing a bit of work for the Public Libraries Taskforce and that set me thinking about the data that public lib...

For a long time — nearly twenty years — I had a very clear candidate for Worst Entrance To A Public Library Ever, though thankfully that par...

Once upon a time, back when the millennium bug was a thing — or we thought it was — the Director of Recreation & Community Services as w...

Why did I get into a bate about visitor figures the other day? It's largely because of the spate of recent reports and commentaries abou...

From an operations management perspective there is some use for library visitor count data: It's useful to have an idea of when your p...

I've started doing some work with the Libraries Taskforce . I'd been to one of their workshops and it was pretty apparent that poten...

A long, long time ago, back when we first put the People's Network into Rochdale's libraries, I got worried about the physical secur...

I was digging round on an old laptop looking for a couple of photos when I bumped into this. Back in 2007 I was the library service's un...