Good to Great
"Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t…
Blue Ocean Strategy & Public Libraries
We like to think that public libraries are unique, and in many ways they are. The chances are that if they had never been…
BiblioTech by John Palfrey
I really wanted to like this book. But for the most part, I didn't. And that's a shame. Books that effectively champion the continuing importance…
Archiving the Unspeakable
Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Michelle Caswell. Michelle Caswell, a professor at UCLA’s Faculty of Education and…
Alien Nation? New Perspectives on the White Working Class and Disengagement in Britain
This is an uncomfortable but necessary read. It made me think long and hard about how public libraries engage and connect with working class…
What We See When We Read
Reading is all about us receiving what the writer intends to convey. Right? Not so fast. We know the solitary act of reading is…