Managing information outside libraries

Generally it’s great to be offered money. Yet one of the trickiest questions for me to field is: “we’ve got £5000 to spend on the website by...

I was saddened to hear, a while ago now, that Dorothea Salo, writer of the library blog Caveat Lector , has decided that Cav Lec is no long...

I recently did some usability testing on the websites that I manage, and in each case asked someone from the website's department to com...

Meredith Farkas wrote a post last April on marketing, and why library schools should teach it . It really struck a chord with me. I don...

I was part of an experiment to liveblog our University undergraduate Open Day. If you're curious, this was the result . Some thoughts o...

When I started this blog, I chose the name "outside libraries" because of a feeling I had and still have about working in informat...

Along with @nearly_everyone_else, I have spent most of today glued to my monitor, following the #cilip2 tag on Twitter. In case you're...