We’re excited to be part of the upcoming Health Libraries Group Conference 2024. Kate from Artefacto will be presenting at the HLG conference, where she’ll talk about our ongoing partnership with a network of fantastic UK health libraries. Health Library and Information Services Directory (HLISD), affectionately known as health lizard🦎, is a directory for the […]
This is a text version of a talk I gave at the recent Libraries Rewired event in London, as part of the Doing More with Data session with Dave Rowe and chaired by Luke Burton. Our work is data-ish Because of the projects that we work on at Artefacto as well as our backgrounds in […]
We held our inaugural Library Make or Break event on the 13th September at CILIP Scotland HQ in Glasgow. We envisaged this event to give library professionals an opportunity to engage with new technologies and share updates on their own projects and innovations (both big and small). And after a long hiatus from hosting in-person […]
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 […]
This is the written version of a talk given recently at Internet Librarian International 2019 in Olympia, London. Slides are also available. === A participatory approach to staff learning The work we do with libraries encompasses a lot of different types of digital projects — including a lot of active learning-based training and other professional […]
We were very excited to have been invited to attend the first ever Maker Education (un)conference in the UK held on the 7th July 2018 at the Edge Hill University campus. The #MakerNoise18 Unconference brought together makers, educators, industry & library staff together. The day kicked off with a short welcome by Carl Simmons (@Activ8Thinking) […]
The annual Mozilla conference (aka Mozfest) covers a wide range of topics and many that are very relevant to information professionals, including many on the ‘Build and Teach the Web’ track and others from across the other 11 tracks that formed the 3-day event. The Librarian-run courses tended to be on the Science Track because.. […]
Our recent workshop at the Pi and Mash unconference, held at Senate House Library in August, came about because we wanted to start a discussion about how we might make the most of user and collection data to help deliver library services. How can we ensure that we’re making data-driven decisions about services and not […]
We were excited to attend one of 2013’s most collaborative and accessible UK library events, which was held in November at the new public library of Birmingham (UK): Library Camp. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of Library Camp, a brief explanation is that it’s an unconference for folks (of all shapes, types and sizes) […]