Nov 29 2009
Recently, I took part in the really brilliant online conference organised by Your School Library that I talked about in my previous posts. the theme was on school library design and also the wider issues of designing learning spaces. In some ways, the course was not timed very well for me – we had only [...]
Oct 29 2009
There have been some great presentations so far, giving lots of food for thought – much of it very profound indeed. So, today was my turn! I presented on “Creating a 21st Century Library in an 1828 Building”. There are no complex ideas here, just a practical case-study of how we created this lovely new [...]
Sep 21 2009
Well, folks, I have been neglecting this blog over the Summer – sorry! Anyone who knows me will understand that I have been really busy organising the refurbishment of my school library. Is that a valid excuse? Well, I think so! Anyway, it is progressing very well and we hope to open it soon. From [...]
Apr 24 2009
Before I return to considerations of Web2.0, I am going to divert here towards a really interesting afternoon spent visiting the library at a local university. Many thanks to the lovely staff there who made me so welcome. Please note that any photos on this post are not of the library I visited today. Sesame [...]
Jul 07 2008
Well, I have not posted here for a long time because so much has been happening professionally and personally. Totally out of the blue really, the perfect (I hope) job opportunity came up that I could not ignore. I had thought that I would stay at my present post until the Grim Reaper came for [...]
