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December 2009 - Posts

18 December 2009
Unplugged
Sue McKnight's excellent professorial address at Nottingham Trent University yesterday evening, and the Q&A session which followed it, set me pondering. I had a lot of time to ponder as my train trundled slowly across the icy wastes of the English Midlands from Nottingham to Birmingham last night... Read More...
02 December 2009
Ostrich or opportunity?
I've always liked Blaise Cronin. Back in the day, in another century, when he was teaching at Strathclyde and I was teaching at Birmingham Poly, Blaise was External Examiner for a PG Dip course of which I was Director. We spent some happy evenings together, putting the library and information world... Read More...
01 December 2009
Margaret's miscellany
Well, we're now into the fourth phase of the seemingly endless Ministerial saga formerly known as the DCMS Modernisation Review of Public Libraries (in England). For new readers, the backstory starts here: The first phase started in October last year when the then Secretary of State, Andy Burnham... Read More...