Last week I attended a symposium on Personalised Library Services in Higher Education. It was run by Andy Priestner (Library and Information Centre Manager, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) and Libby Tilley (Librarian, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge). Andy and Libby had an article, Boutique libraries at your service, published in CILIP Update last year and were subsequently commissioned by Ashgate to edit a book on the same topic. The purpose of the symposium was to explore the boutique model which had been set out in the article and develop ideas around the themes of each chapter. The [...]
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Saving Libraries and Escaping the Echo Chamber
This week I have been doing my bit for the #savelibraries campaign. I’ve been watching it from afar for some time without getting involved but this week I have finally been able to add my contribution. First up was an article for the Guardian Careers – Beyond books: what it means to be a 21st century librarian. I have been working on this with Katie Birkwood for the past 6 months. The idea to write an article about what it really means to be a librarian came from the comments on my Library Day in the Life Round 5 blog [...]
What do you call the people who use your library?
Voting is now closed in my poll on what we call the people who use our libraries. Thank you to everyone who voted and participated in the discussion here and on Twitter. Image credit: University Communications The results can be seen in the chart below. I have to say I’m not surprised that User came out top with 34%, it was always in the top two as the votes came in. From the comments I’d heard on Twitter I think people prefer it because it can be applied to everyone, no matter what type of library they are using or [...]
