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Social cataloguing: a discussion on LibraryThing and Goodreads 6 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
[This blog post originally appeared as an article in CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group's journal, Catalogue & Index no. 171. It is reproduced here by kind permission of the editors.] Goodreads and...
Rise of the cyborgs: the growth of librarian-IT hybrids 4 Jul 2013 | 08:31 pm
On 2 July 2013, I delivered a presentation at CILIP's Umbrella conference in Manchester under the theme heading 'Beyond Information Matters'. The full paper should be available in the Umbrella Confere...
BT Digital Archives 6 Jun 2013 | 02:48 pm
Several weeks ago, on the 15 May 2013, several British Library folks involved in Digital Scholarship went to an event hosted by Coventry University about the digitisation of the BT Archive and subsequ...
The Labyrinth-City 19 May 2013 | 11:47 pm
It was not his city. He had not been born here. His family were not from here. The Victorian tall houses, the excess of graffiti along the train-lines into King's Cross and Euston, the byzantine beaut...
The future of librarianship: a LibCampLdn session pitch 18 Feb 2013 | 02:27 pm
On the 2nd of March, I will be pitching a session at Library Camp London: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords…: technology, digital libraries, and the future of librarianship. The quantity o...
Unpacking the draft page: time, space, and computer games 7 Feb 2013 | 07:10 pm
A few weeks ago, I went to a seminar organised by the King’s College Centre for E-research. It was delivered by Elena Pierazzo who is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities ...
My first week. Or: How I learned to stop worrying and found the bathroom. 16 Dec 2012 | 06:31 pm
The first week of a new job is strange. You spend your time performing actions and doing things that will eventually be quotidian and dull; that will eventually fade into the background tedium of life...
An idiot's guide to Annual Staff Reviews 23 Nov 2012 | 12:00 am
One of my last major tasks at Durham University Library was delivering performance reviews for several members of my team. At this point in my career, professional colleagues and friends are approachi...
Gestalt shift 5 Nov 2012 | 09:24 pm
In psychology, a gestalt shift is when your perception suddenly changes. In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein illustrated this with the duck-rabbit illusion: you can see either the duck o...
Librarians vs. users 9 Oct 2012 | 03:38 pm
Libraries serve humanity. Michael Gorman and Walt Crawford's first law of librarianship, Future libraries: dreams madness, and realities, p. 8. Libraries provide a service to users (1). That is the...
