One of the most inspiring sessions at The Edge 2010 conference came from Tony Durcan, Head of Culture, Libraries & Lifelong Learning, Newcastle Council; and Councillor John Shipley, Leader of Newcastle Council. Tony and John talked about Newcastle’s new City Library: a 7 year PFI development project costing £24m and resulting in a fantastic [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Librarian brews the alphabet…
Posted in Books, tagged Christine Rooney-Browne, coll hamilton, Doctor Who, Librarian art on March 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of my lovely friends, Coll Hamilton, is a super talented artist and he has created this little image of me for my blog. It is inspired by my love of tea and books. I love it! Thanks Coll! You can check out more of Coll’s work on his website – there’s even some cool [...]
Edge 2010 – The Power of the Blog!
Posted in Conferences, public libraries, tagged Blogging, edge2010, Edinburgh libraries, Ewan McIntosh, libraries on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The second Keynote Speaker at last week’s Edge 2010 conference was Ewan McIntosh. From the very start Ewan’s energy and passion for social media was infectious. He spoke enthusiastically about Twitter, Facebook, Bebo and running his own blog. He discussed the “illiterate professional class“, highlighting a couple of high profile news stories about users of [...]
Edge 2010 Conference – all killer, no filler!
Posted in Advocacy, Conferences, Evaluations, public libraries, tagged Edge 2010, Edinburgh, Edinburgh libraries, public libraries, Susan Benton, urban libraries council on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Edge 2010 conference at Edinburgh Castle – and what a fantastic conference it was! The speaker list was top class and thanks to some excellent programming from the event organisers I didn’t have to miss any of the sessions. This was such a relief because [...]
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