February 2008 - Posts

29 February 2008
Celluloid heroes

Hollywood makes heroes of us all - and Hollywood Librarian makes our profession truly heroic. The idea sounds good to me - let's mix clips of celluloid librarians and interviews with real-life professionals and see what we get - but it could have turned Read More...

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21 February 2008
Hollywood Librarian!

A brilliant idea - a film made up of movie clips portraying fictional librarians alongside interviews with real librarians - given its screen debut (to great acclaim) in North America a few months ago. See http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com/ . for details. Read More...

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19 February 2008
Your health, your choices...

... is the strapline of the NHS Choices initiative, designed to enable people to make informed decisions about their lifestyle and health care. Central to the initiative is a one-stop web portal aggregating health information for use by patients, the Read More...

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14 February 2008
Glittering Prizes

Good to see extensive coverage in the Times this morning of the Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education. The Prizes recognise world-class achievement and excellence in UK universities and colleges and deserve to be much better known. Read More...

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12 February 2008
Better, from America

The world hasn't had many good words to say for the United States in recent years. So here are two current reasons to be cheerful about the USA. One is the pride and passion of our professional colleagues across the pond and the way they're prepared to Read More...

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11 February 2008
Publish, and be damned

First, let me declare an interest. I was a member of the government's Quinquennial Review group which found the Public Lending Right (PLR) operation to be exemplary in its efficiency and effectiveness. Small but perfectly formed - and fulfilling a vital Read More...

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04 February 2008
Becks and Bobby

I wasn't going to write about football again for a while but a couple of photos in the press caught my eye. One - in the Guardian supplement on Saturday about the Munich crash - is a photo from 1958 of Bobby Charlton playing keepy-uppy with local lads Read More...

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