Renaissance Utterances

In the library and information world, who could have predicted a few months ago that organisations would be pushed to change so rapidly;...

This piece came out of a month long stay in Ljubljana in October 2017. This is when I fell in love with this beautiful capital, its cultur...

This is strange. I’ve been to many lectures recently but a mild panic about actually having to learn stuff for my skipper exams ensured al...

I changed my CILIP Special Interest Group membership recently and, although it is too early in the year to tell, it’s possibly cemented th...

A guide for the grumpy! Sometimes it's good to go back to basics and take a fresh look at a topic. In the past I've worked with ...

Last July I went on a visit to the RCS Library and so when an opportunity came up to visit another high profile medical library, I was qu...

Remember these? This is the fourth in this series of Twenty Years in Law Librarianship. Given it has been generated by general high leve...

This is the third in this series of twenty years in law librarianship. I already have covered technology and communications , both of whi...

The ICLR was established in 1865 to “prepare and publish, in a convenient form, at a moderate price, and under gratuitous professional c...

Although the intellectual life of the artist is crucial, my focus this weekend has been on the patron and his concerns. I'm coming rou...

This course has piqued my interest in a huge way. After nearly spending the entire weekend – unintentionally – in the Warburg Library read...

How many men have been injured opening bra straps? How many people currently have a cold at the moment? These aren't questions that ca...

The second 'On the River' Summer School post concerns portrayals of rivers in maps. Having the foresight to do some quick research...

’ Do you remember when you started your first post-university professional job? When you were eager to sign up to your professional organi...

Two of the best things about being in law librarianship for decades are 1. seeing the changes in colours of institutions’ rule books; 2. the...

It has been said that ‘ information is the lifeblood of law and the legal profession ’. And to this I would like to add, law firms continue ...

Google Alerts are emails sent to you when Google finds new results, such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs that match your search...

Lexis users have always suffered from information overload. Lexis Library contains a wealth of information but unless you are willing to l...

At home not eating cheese I wanted to write a short personal piece on whether my Olympic contingency plan had worked or not. Quite simpl...

I’ve been following the arguments surrounding the publishing of scientific research with interest; what the Guardian are calling an ‘ Acad...