In mid-June Talis began a series of 'Talking with Talis' centred on the current debate about Public Libraries in the UK. Do get things off to a good start, Richard Wallis talked to Tim Coates. I summarised the talk here. As I noted in earlier postings the MLA and the recently-closed Laser Foundation, as well as CILIP's Public Libraries Group ...

A quick link to the Talis Panlibus blog which in turn links to the first 'Talking with Talis' podcast. This is the first in a series of podcasts looking at the landscape of opinions about the future of public libraries. The subject of the 55-minute interview is Tim Coates, who - unsurprisingly, given his ''strong opinions about, and proposals for, ...

Over at Panlibus, Richard Wallis has risen to the challenge! Topping his posting with a superb Flickr jibe (''There's too many chiefs and not enough Indians around this house'' as Dean would have said), Richard writes: we at Talis are very committed to libraries, and very committed to doing what we can to help bring them, and the services they ...