November 2007 - Posts

26 November 2007
How to meet a Minister

While musing on my recent meeting with Margaret Hodge (also on 19 November, like the Sponsored Slim weigh-in), it occurred to me that I’ve probably met more Library Ministers than most of the readers of this blog. So here’s a guide for the inexperienced. Read More...

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23 November 2007
Gym fixed it for me!

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’ve been counting down the days to the weigh-in for my CDG Sponsored Slim in support of Zambian prison libraries. The challenge was to lose 10 per cent of my body weight (from the distinctly chunky 111.1 kilo Read More...

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22 November 2007
Reading the future

Last week to the QEII Conference Centre for the RFID in Libraries conference and the week before last to the Royal Festival Hall for The Reading Agency’s birthday party. Musing on the two events I come, of course, to three conclusions: The first is how Read More...

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21 November 2007
Counter productive

Twenty-five years ago I was at the QEII Conference Centre in London for the launch of IT82 , a government programme designed to alert people to the potential of ICT. Last week I was back at the same venue, chairing the annual CILIP RFID in Libraries Conference Read More...

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20 November 2007
Yes, Prime Minister

Interestingly, Gordon Brown has chosen a Christmas card with a double link to libraries – illustrated by Shirley Hughes, much loved doyenne of children’s book illustration and winner of the Kate Greenaway Award (administered by CILIP’s Youth Libraries Read More...

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19 November 2007
Roy’s at the helm

Still at the Talis Insight conference I listened with great interest to the keynote session with Roy Clare, the new (nine weeks in post) CEO of MLA. I was impressed – both with what Roy said and the manner in which he said it. He’s been making waves (sorry, Read More...

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08 November 2007
My fair library

Euan Semple (of whom more in later blogposts) told the Talis Insight Conference (of which more in future blogposts) that blogging makes you a more “noticing” kind of person – more aware of stuff so that you can say “that’s interesting” and point to it Read More...

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06 November 2007
Vote! Vote! Vote!

I know that this blog can be accessed by the world at large and not just Members of CILIP (mind you, if you’re interested enough to read this blog, why aren’t you a Member of CILIP?) but this is a message directed exclusively at CILIP colleagues. Two Read More...

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