A couple of weeks ago I attended a SINTO training event called, Ills and Document Delivery in the Web 2.0 Environment. The purpose of this day long course presented by Stephanie Taylor of Critical Eye Communications was for document supply librarians to learn more about new methods of inter-lending and the benefits of social-computing. During [...]

After a long day at the Library and Information Show courtesy of Birmingham’s NEC I feel ready to count my free pens and stress balls… All day I’ve been wondering why so many exhibitors offer free stress balls! It seems to suggest that us librarians are easily stressed?? Yet if we were really that stressed I [...]

Today has been one of those days that came around far too quickly. My dissertation supervisor asked me a couple of months ago whether I would be interested in coming back to the University to guest spot in a lecture concerning censorship, freedom and privacy and today was to be the day it was done.
The [...]