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The time for libraries is NOW

Just thought I’d share this slide-deck made by Ned Potter. I think it’s just the job, positively exudes wikiman-ness and deserves to be posted all over the place, so I am doing!

It’s geared towards public libraries, but one of the brilliant things about it is that these issues (transliteracy, the digital divide, information overload) are cross-sector – library and information professionals all have to deal with stuff like this, no matter who our patrons are. We have shared values and aims – this is a message we need to send out to the profession and the public, and the over-arching themes in Ned’s slide-deck do that admirably.

MMU Lecture

I thought I’d put up the slides I used in a guest lecture I gave to MMU students today. It was broadly about library advocacy, Voices for the Library, UK public library cuts, politics, the role of libraries and librarians and how we can fight for our public library service.

There’s no script, so if you want to know what the heck it’s about, you’ll have to buy me a wine and get me rambling :)