The morning of Friday the 13th of November saw the Ask Scotland Development day at the Mitchell library. The day was a chance to outline the overall strategy of implementing the service and was also an opportunity for the first group of librarians involved in Ask Scotland to ask questions about it a ...
After much delay, due to having a baby, my research is finally done in sofaras it’s been submitted; I would never say it is complete. It’s not quite the magnum opus I originally planned but practical concerns always get in the way of perfection. I intend to continue my research, to monitor the ongoi ...
Despite the heat being very much on (deadline for dissertation 30th September) I cannot stop wandering in to new writings and research on the subject of public library blogs – I mostly have to turn the router off to get any writing done. This latest from Walt Crawford makes very interesting reading, ...
"It's like the children's burn unit, you don't cut it until it's the very last thing." That's how Community and Rural Development Minister Bill Bennett reportedly described the Campbell administration's commitment to funding libraries during a reception held last month at the Cranbrook Public Librar ...
I sort of knew about this for a while but the Rangeview Library District is ditching Dewey in favor of a self-created WordThink system which more closely mimics bookstore categories. No word on whether they’ll ditch that horrible catalog though. They’ve only implemented the switch at one branch so f ...
Catalogers and technical services managers in public libraries are needed more than ever, but for a variety of reasons their numbers have been declining over the years. ALCTS CRG has convened a forum on careers in technical services in public libraries, but as the forum was not listed in the program ...
