Indeed, the state of the art in used-book selling these days seems to be less about connoisseurship than about database management. With the help of software tools, so-called megalisters stock millions of books and sell tens of thousands a week through Amazon, AbeBooks and other online marketplaces. Some sellers don’t even own their wares. They ...

I didn’t make it to the HLG Conference, having chosen to attend the Health Statistics User Group Conference instead (More on that once the slides are online). Posters and presentations from HLG are available from the Cilip website, of which these caught my eye: The role of the information specialist in the topic selection process at [...]