It’s been a while since we held an in-person event, so we thought it was time to dip our toes back into the world of tech meetups for libraries. We also wanted to try a new kind of tech meetup that celebrates those small and thoughtful innovations that we are often banging on about. So […]
We love stories! No matter what we are working on – whether it’s training in person, online learning, or designing a website – we like to incorporate interactive and narrative elements to make it more enjoyable and engaging for our users. Interactive storytelling also has significant pedagogical value. For example, we often use branching scenarios […]
When it comes to your library’s strategic vision, it can always be helpful to get a little inspiration from what other libraries are doing. To help you to create a meaningful strategic plan, we’ve put together a list of some great examples of library strategies from around the world (and from different types of libraries). […]
In this second of our series of ‘celebration’ posts, we want to talk about innovation in libraries. But not that kind of press-release causing disruption that hogs all the attention. We are interested in innovation in a small but impactful sense. This is particularly pertinent when services are already under huge pressure and innovation can […]
With free access to Twitter’s application programming interface (API), developers and other creative gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) folks have been using the twitter platform to increase accessibility to digitised cultural heritage collections in some weird and wonderful ways. But it’s been tricky to keep track of all the policy changes at Twitter of […]
There is a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the release of powerful tools and new initiatives and techniques emerging. But it can be hard to separate the signal from the noise, and figure out what this all means for our work and the future of the library sector. The debate really kicked […]
The data is in: Announcing our top 10 articles from Newslet for 2022! Our libraries newsletter is a labour of love, and at this time of year, we like to take a look back to find out exactly what you enjoyed the most from our 21 Issues over the past year. As always, we are […]
In our hectic world of endless to-do lists, it can feel as if everything needs to be done now, ticked off, and completed. There’s often little space for experimentation and practice, no time to dwell or mess around discovering how things work by getting them wrong and trying again. Failure is scary. It can feel […]
Introduction Google has announced the end of life for their Universal Analytics, which is being replaced by Google Analytics 4 (GA4). This means that from July 1, 2023, you will no longer get web metrics recorded using standard Universal Analytics properties. If your library uses Google Analytics to track usage of any of your websites, […]
It’s no secret that we ❤️ newsletters and library newsletters can come in quite a few different flavours. In this second post in our series to mark 200 issues of Newslet, our own library newsletter, we wanted to recognise some of our favourite examples and explore how they produce content that keeps their audiences engaged. […]