Showing posts with label libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libraries. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 December 2019

The library, like the pub, the village hall and the church is a vital community institution - even if you don't use it

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...the contexts in which civil society operates have become much more hostile. In most parts of the world, communities are increasingly d...
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Saturday, 18 June 2016

Why we don't need an Evidence Information Service (but do need better access to evidence)

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**** Whenever I think about evidence-based policy making and the use of data by government, my mind turns to an article by Dr Vince-Wayne ...
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Monday, 14 July 2014

Hating the untidiness of whimsy - the curse of local councils

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**** Control, direct, order, limit, ban, manage, prevent, dictate, regulate, licence, stop. Sadly these are the words that best define m...
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Monday, 14 January 2013

Open Access: It's not free you know - not even a little bit...

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The Internet I mean. Yet that's what people persist in believing - and worse that somehow forcing it all to be 'free' (it isn...
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012

I guess most members of the Society of Authors never studied statistics...

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**** A little storm on a bookshelf stirred up by the Society of Authors (an august body that I'd never heard of - can't see why a...
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Monday, 2 July 2012

...a thought about 'open access' publishing (from someone cleverer than me)

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**** So the great and good want academic research published 'open access' at enormous cost - probably to the taxpayers (nearly al...
Thursday, 26 April 2012

Academic publishing and the 'tragedy of the commons'

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**** I'm sure Mr Worstall did so inadvertently but his castigation of the Royal Society's 'save the planet' report also ex...
Tuesday, 15 March 2011

When is a saving not a saving? A tale of some libraries

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*** Readers will know that the Labour leadership of Bradford Council decided – with support from our local Liberal Democrats – that two ...
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

How not to make cuts - a lesson from Bradford

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**** I’ve been pretty straight when asked about the cuts – they are needed because we can’t afford to spend money the way we have for year...
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Thursday, 23 December 2010

Libraries really do need to change, you know

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Yesterday, I had an interesting, if inconclusive conversation about the future of public libraries. Partly, this took place in the context o...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

The Smoking Ban Problem - polls, libraries and predicting future behaviour

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*** Many experts on polling question the effectiveness of the “what if” question: “If politician X was leader of Party Y why would you be mo...
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