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Publications

This page contains some articles I've written, most recent first.

• My Favourite Tipples
  Not a proper article this, but an appearence in the famous Free Pint newsletter, describing 5 online tools I find useful every day. You can read it here .

• Statistics, the media, and the trouble with the library legacy
  The title is fairly self-explanatory for this one. Article for PostLib, the journal for retired librarians, December 2010. The article opens in PDF format, here.

• Map your own route
  Interview with Library & Information Gazette in the November 2010 issue, about careers advice for new professionals - opens in digital magazine format here.

• Moving forward together
  Article about LISNPN (the New Professionals Network I set up) which appeared in the late August edition of Library and Information Gazette. Opens in digital magazine format here.

• Moving Beyond the Echo Chamber
  This article appeared in the July edition of CILIP's Update and the embargo has now ended and I can make Moving Beyond the Echo Chamber available here (.PDF). It covers the same subject area as the Echo Chamber Prezi and is a subject I feel very passionately about.

• The Library Routes Project
  An article about Library Routes, from ALISS Quarterly, Volume 5, no. 3: April 2010. It details how the project came about, the methodology and so on - the article can be downloaded here, in PDF format.

• Why are we still defined by our building? (the short version...)
  The full version can be found below; this is a much reduced edition, published by Impact (the Career Development Group Journal), as part of the prize of winning best paper at the 2009 New Professionals Conference. Available here in PDF format.

• The Unspeakable Truth
  This is a copy of the essay which was one of the winners of the LISNews Essay Contest - it's about the future of libraries, and the positive lessons about reinvention we can learn from other industries. Downloadable here as a PDF.

• That Times Higher Education letter...
  Not really a proper publication of course, but it seemed to be of interest to a lot of people. To understand the context, first you need to read the article by the academic complaining about loud libraries, and then read my response here, the letter in question. Finally, this blog post explains all the background.

• The fast-changing face of modern librarianship
  This is an article I wrote about the Library Routes Project for the CILIP Career Development Group's Yorkshire & Humberside branch newsletter, Up the Ladder, availble here in PDF format (by permission). I must admit, all those italics are not my own!
  [Up the Ladder, Issue 35, Winter 2009]

• Why are we still defined by our building?
  A version of the paper I gave at the CILIP New Professionals Conference in London, July 09, is available here in PDF format.

• How did you fund yours?
  Library work is always bracketed under Information Management. Sometimes Careers Advice is too, and this is an area I’m interested in having done some work-experience at the University of York’s Careers Service, during my MA. This is a piece I wrote for Prospects PostGrad Magazine, about how I worked part-time during my first Masters, and the importance of demonstrating actual skills and experiences to potential employers, rather than just coming out of University with a degree and expecting that to be sufficient to secure you a decent job. It is available here in PDF format.
  [Prospects Postgrad, 2006/7]