Steven Heywood's Blog o'Library Stuff

There was a useful thread on Twitter about the normalisation of deviance, the idea that if you get away with something outside the accepted...

I toddled along to Library Camps' FailCamp recently. I thought I'd put in a pitch for a discussion about my experience with the Peo...

Been to what had been planned to be the last of this year's leaving do's (during which I heard some news suggesting there'll be ...

Having had a quick scamper through the worry list , what customer data could be shared openly? Let's start with what can't be sha...

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...