You don’t organise online live Twitter discussions almost every month for ten years without learning something about how to run a small group of volunteers effectively. Since practical know-how and experience are hard-won and often harder still to come by, …
Lessons learned: reflections on 10 years of community building Read more »
Librarians are usually pictured curating collections, nowadays of predominantly electronic resources. Surrounded by literature and studies of all kinds, it is perhaps unsurprising that some librarians have also taken to writing books themselves. Second-hand bookseller Abe Books has brought together a few highlights from the …
The Enquiries team have been doing something unusual this week. We’ve been talking about ourselves. This isn’t something that comes naturally, and it can seem a bit awkward, but as part of the Library’s staff development programme, we’ve been presenting …
Mass Observation? Sounds fishy to me! But no, it’s not about surveillance, CCTV or Big Brother.
According to my “calendar of very important National Days”, today is National Librarians Day. Although officially the nation is the US, any day that celebrates the work of library folk is worth celebrating if you ask me. On Tuesday, you may …
In the USA, National Library Workers Day is a day for library staff, users, administrators and others to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers. This year it falls today, on Tuesday 14th April. Twelve years ago, the American Library …
Happy National Library Workers Day (where’s my card?) Read more »
It’s been a quiet week here in the Library. I can’t give you an exact figure for the number of Easter eggs which have been consumed by the Enquiries team, but it’s fair to say it was quite a few. …
It started with a tweet. One of those throw-away tweets, stumbled across by accident, that then becomes all-important. I wanted to make an F-15 fighter jet from paper. From one piece of paper.
We have been celebrating Wear A Hat Day in the Library again this year, with various members of staff dressed up in a motley assortment of hats to raise funds and awareness as part of a national campaign for Brain Tumour Research. This …
Librarians, eh? What do we do? Sit at desks waiting to answer questions? Stamp dates in books? Not any more… Welcome to a day in the life of Ellie Enquiries*… It’s 8:50am and I’ve arrived at my desk. The walk in …
