Glut on Amazon : Glut on LibraryThing: Glut in Libraries
Glut is certainly ambitious, covering as it does all of human evolutionary history. Wright seeks to put information handling into its genetic and social context. Not being an expert in either field, I’ll need to look a little further to see if it holds up scientifically.
Wright [...]

Edit, 03/12- for those of you who do not know, Tim (Coates) was the consultant on the Hillingdon library restructuring. /Edit
As I said over at the GLG blog, it is encouraging to see the increase in book loans at the first of the revamped Hillingdon libraries.
As I have said in a follow up comment, we [...]

Walt Crawford returns to the issue of being in the middle, and quotes your author quite extensively.
This has led me to think a little more on this. In a previous life I studied religion, and in the course of that considered the issue of belief continua and balancing extremes.
One group I looked at went beyond [...]

Yes, the Kindle; crazy name, crazy product?
There’s a lot of talk about it. There are essentially two camps:-
1. It’s great, a real space time and tree saver
2. It’s not great, a DRM’d up overpriced waste
I wonder if ebooks are an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist. Or, if it does exist, isn’t seen as [...]

Off to London tomorrow for the Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) Committee meeting. Sadly there will be no time to go and see the Ruislip Manor library- the first of the Hillingdon new libraries.
We will be discussing the role of research in libraries and librarianship, particularly how research can be encouraged and the results better [...]