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Libraries, codex and the future
It’s library appreciation weekend, so I’ll go down to our local Carnegie to find some obscure books to borrow (which may be difficult, as it’s been somewhat destocked over the past year or so. It’s...
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What bookshops do well (II): Community
I still have shelves of books and computer files of old content, all attesting to the importance of the Third Place (Ray Oldenburg’s Great Good Place, Leon Kreitzman’s 24 Hour Society, etc). Bookshops...
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Happy World Book Day!
It’s World Book Day across the UK and Ireland. Buy a child a book Support your local children’s bookshop Take your children to the library Read to them, read with them Salute our great children’s...
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Will Gompertz blogs on World Book Night
An interesting commentary from the BBC’s arts editor, musing on WBN a week after the fact. Well worth a read, he packs in plenty of ideas per paragraph. Filed under: Bookshops, Libraries Tagged: BBC,...
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Aperçus from Earls Court
Here are statements, thoughts and ideas I picked up, or had for myself, in the course of a couple of days at Earls Court and elsewhere. ”Quotes” aren’t direct (I don’t have shorthand), so I’m...
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On libraries, DRM and Occupy…
My latest column for the Bookseller, in which I discuss the Occupy… protests, the impact of digital communication on ideas, and the importance of libraries in a civil society. St Paul’s certainly got...
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The new Canada Water Library at Rotherhithe
I spent some of my formative years in Rotherhithe, SE16, and returned there a couple of weeks ago to explore its splendid new library. Big thanks to Pam Usher, Southwark Council’s Library Service...
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