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Banana on pink background
OK, now I’ve got your attention I confess that this blog has nothing whatever to do with bananas...
Why would I want to reopen the libraries?
As the UK emerged from the first Covid-19 lockdown last autumn, one English council chief executive was asked if he had reopened the libraries yet and replied...
This is the sign you’ve been looking for…
Right now leaders everywhere, not least in local government, are looking for solutions to a range of problems, many of which existed before the Covid-19 pandemic.
It’s Tuesday, so the library must be in…
Those who know me or who’ve read my December 2020 blog may be a little surprised to see me focusing on library buildings, but bear with me...
Humanoid?… or just human old?
They say age is just a number and objectively that must be true, but it’s also true that perceptions of, and attitudes to, age certainly do make a difference.
Discover the truth…
In 2020, notwithstanding the ongoing digital divide, 96% of households in the UK had some level of access to the internet...
Once upon a time…
There was a world before Covid-19 … a world even before austerity … a world before performance management.
Library services: so, what happens next?
The Christmas holiday is nearly here but without doubt a very different Christmas wherever we may be, bringing with it a range of complicated restrictions that are hard to keep up with.
Closed access to contactless
Amidst the more modern themes, my last blog seems to have created a fair bit of interest in Alfred Cotgreave
COVID, clicks and Cotgreave
´Click and collect´ seems to be the Coronavirus catchphrase of the moment in libraries, though Argos claim to have introduced the concept in the year 2000.