Well, my portfolio is pretty much done. It’ll be sent off soon.
This blog was started as part of the chartership process. Now it is nearly at an end, I think it’s time to put an end to the blog. I have said all I want to say on the issues I have covered.
As a summary:-

Above all [...]

BBC News report on Dolly’s visit to promote the Imagination Library. Apparently some councillors are angry that a council meeting has been put back an hour.
No mention from them of questions about the scheme…
 Update: according to the BBC’s Politics Show, the local Chamber of Commerce will fund the books.

EDIT I still believe in librarianship as a profession, an organised body of knowledge and practice, with a body representing and developing that body of knowledge. For posts in leadership positions, for sole librarians, for posts with serious technical or managerial aspects, a rigorous and demanding qualification structure is needed. And any qualification structure needs [...]

Dolly Parton is in Rotherham tomorrow. She is here as part of her Imagination Library project, which Rotherham council is interested in.
Now, the scheme sounds good- free books sent every month to children between birth and age 5. Anything that gets books into homes must be good, right?
Partly, yes. But without an equal effort in [...]

A piece on the disappearance of 250k+ books from Walthamstow, and on the fate of books and libraries more generally.
Firstly, it is a scandal that so many books were disposed of, with no apparent thought for alternatives. That some books need to be weeded is accepted by most people. But there should always be a [...]