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Visit to Chesterfield Public Library

The first library visit of the MA course today, and we went to Chesterfield Public Library , with the slightly broader remit of hearing about Derbyshire Public Libraries in general. If you've been following this blog for a while, you'll have picked up Read More...

Author’s Campaign for the Book

The children’s author Alan Gibbons is launching a ‘Campaign for the Book’ which has the aim of establishing “a network of authors, professional bodies, trade unions and local pressure groups to resist attacks on reading for pleasure”. In a recent article Read More...

Public Libraries - what is the point?

At one level it is a debate about whether libraries should be "silent and serious" or "noisy and fun". At a deeper level it is a debate about what public libraries are there for. The latest round in this debate began with a piece in the Times about Camden Read More...

ALJ on Information Literacy

The latest issue of the Australian Library Journal focuses on Information Literacy in everyday lives. It is a subscription publication. Articles are: Workplace information literacy for administrative staff in higher education. (Mark Hepworth and Marian Read More...

Public library promotion

One final thread to tie up from the Essex job before I leave at the end of the week and that's the public library display we were trying to set up as a part of the National Year of Reading - see this previous post . Our materials finally arrived and we Read More...
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