The Reading Agency and Publishers Association held an event recently at Canada Water Library (UK) focusing on their Digital Skills Sharing initiative (funded by Arts Council England) which had been running for 10 months. The initiative consisted of six teams of publishers & public library services working together in an attempt to develop libraries digital marketing and communications channels with their readers. Further background details can be found …

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[NB: I originally wrote this as a guest post on the "RFID - Changing Libraries For Good?" blog]

At CILIP’s 2012 RFID in Libraries Conference I spoke about creative uses of RFID, focusing on the world outside the library sector, but linking back to possible opportunities for development within libraries. The following post is a write-up of my presentation. To give…

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I attended an event organised by Digital Surrey last night. The speaker was one of the original programmers behind the game M.U.D., Richard Bartle. His focus this evening was trying to predict what virtual massively multiplayer online (M.M.O.) game worlds might be like in 2022. He gave us various scenarios, some positive and others negative and it was all very interesting seeing how things might turn out,…

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In the UK we have held a series of events called 'Mashed Libraries'. This covers the area of data mashups in a library service/information professional context. I thought it would be useful to put together a custom search for anyone

interested in Library Mashups. I put it together to avoid having to

trawl through various sites and blogs that covered library mashup

tutorials and ideas. It covers sites such as the Mashed Libraries ning and wiki,

Code4Libraries site, this… Continue