October 2008 - Posts

28 October 2008
Ton up!

To Edinburgh at the end of last week, to celebrate one hundred years of professional association in Scotland - and then back home on Saturday in very wet and windy conditions which made me wonder if the airport bus was going to get blown over, never mind Read More...

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28 October 2008
Let's be havin' yer!

Forget Obama and McCain - this is the Big One! Your chance to vote in the Annual Election for Trustees to serve on CILIP Council. If you're a voting Member of CILIP that is - and if not, why not?! Council is the governing body of CILIP, responsible for Read More...

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27 October 2008
Blog, not blog?

To blog about something, or not blog about something? On the one hand I want to give you a flavour of the stuff which passes across my desk (or through my mind), on the other hand I don't want to feel that I have to blog every blessed thing just for the Read More...

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11 October 2008
Try to see it my way...

For me, these days, conferences are mostly about the conversations rather than the sessions. I had lots of good conversations at PLA. About the DCMS Review and the APPG Inquiry, of course, but also about culture, regeneration, reader development, football, Read More...

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11 October 2008
You say you want a revolution..

Andy Burnham gave the sort of polished performance you expect of a Secretary of State who uses a professional speechwriter. Lyn Brown MP gave us one from the heart - emotional, honest, authentic. I've known Lyn for years - from back in the day when we Read More...

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11 October 2008
I read the news today, oh boy...

Sometimes, when I attend an event and then read about it in the newspapers, I wonder if the journalists were at the same event as me. A case in point is the media reporting of the speech by Culture Secretary Andy Burnham to the PLA Conference on Thursday. Read More...

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11 October 2008
Picture yourself on a boat on a river...

...but no! We've stepped off the ferry at the Pier Head and now we're back at the Crowne Plaza for the PLA Conference, ready to hear from Phil, Andy, and Lyn. Last time I was at a conference in Liverpool - the Cofhe/UC&R event earlier in the year Read More...

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11 October 2008
There are places I remember...

I like Liverpool - the city and the people - despite my being associated with a town in "greater" (heavy irony when spoken in a Scouse accent) Manchester. This time, as ever, Liverpool did not disappoint - even though my intended trip to Dr Duncans to Read More...

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11 October 2008
Is there anybody going to listen to my story?

The best things in life are free And you can get them at the lib-ra-ree Hmm. Fortunately I don't have any aspirations to be Poet Laureate - as you would certainly know if you'd heard my introduction (in rhyme) to Lyn Brown MP in the CILIP session at the Read More...

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09 October 2008
Poem for today

So, here I am at the Public Library Authorities Conference in Liverpool (bright sunny morning and I can see the Mersey from my hotel room: ferry 'cross this afternoon...) and I've just been chatting about the credit crunch, as you do, and the bad name Read More...

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