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Library Day in the Life/Week in the Life
Most of my days are spent at the keyboard... I have not had much time this week to blog each day about what I have been doing (and I’m not sure it would make entertaining reading if I did!). So I...
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Voices for the Library and National Save Our Libraries Day
Save our Libraries (c/o CILIP). Yesterday was quite a crazy day to say the least! Who would have thought back in December when Alan Gibbons first proposed a day of coordinated protest that there would...
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Kent Libraries – what’s going on??
Whilst campaigns have been going on up and down the country, it has been a little quiet in Kent over the past few weeks. However, this does not mean that there is nothing going on. On the contrary,...
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Is the Big Society causing library closures?
"The Big Society" - killing a library near you? Whether you believe in David Cameron’s “Big Society” or not, the promotion of this initiative has had some puzzling side effects. Take Gloucestershire...
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RFID self-service – is now the right time?
The following was written with help from Mick Fortune, an expert in RFID technology. What is RFID? RFID (Radio-frequency identification) is a type of technology that is often used in self-service...
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Kent County Council – embarking on an #epicfail?
Is KCC making a big (and costly) mistake? As I noted in an earlier blog post, Kent County Council are about to install RFID self-service units in libraries across the county. The first batch of...
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Librarian day/week in the life…
11.30am - time to send another FoI (image c/o ToniVC on Flickr) I know I have kinda already written a blog post for the Library Day in the Life project, but I thought why not write a post summarising...
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Kent refuse to reveal rejected proposals…
County Hall, Maidstone (image c/o John47kent on Flickr) During a meeting earlier this year, proposals were put before the 73 Conservative members of Kent County Council regarding the future of...
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