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Health Information and Libraries Journal's Silver Jubilee

Health Information and Libraries Journal, or HILJ, pronounced by the irreverent to rhyme with bilge, is 25 years old. The journal has marked its birthday with a splendid celebratory issue, guest-edited by Andrew Booth, or Andrew Boot, as CILIP's Library.. Read More...

Defining e-books and publishing

In the week in which my 'definition' article - Books in a virtual world: The evolution of the e-book and its lexicon - has finally seen the light of day ( Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 40 (3): 193-206; and deposited/soon available on Read More...

On reading and design: more thoughts

I have just been reading a short editorial piece by Patrick Tucker in The Futurist : The 21st Century Writer . It is a reflective piece on Tim O’Reilly’s “Tools of Change” conference, and focusses on publishing in an electronic age. Unsurprisingly. For Read More...

A necessary change in reading?

I often write about reading in this blog; it is a fairly natural - even logical - progression or collocation for anyone thinking about information, books or libraries. In Is Google Making Us Stupid , Nicholas Carr wonders if - like the Italian humanist Read More...

Is Bluster over Google Book Search = Shame that publishers didn’t get there first?

I do not really like quoting at length in my blog entries, but the article that I am referencing here is such an important article from the house of a major publisher, that I think it is warranted. Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan Digital Publishing has written Read More...
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