Archive for the 'United Kingdom' Category
US author is UK library favourite
February 10th, 2008BBC - “US thriller writer James Patterson has become the UK’s most borrowed author, with his books taken out of libraries 1.5 million times in 12 months.”
UK book industry goes (a little bit) green
December 5th, 2007Eco-Libris has the info
Someone needs to start a “Going Green: blog for the library community.
On Ad Inserts In Library Books
November 4th, 2007FLTC - “As a person working in a library, my concern is that this seems to go against customer service principles.”
Marketing In Libraries
November 2nd, 2007Press Release - “In a ground-breaking initiative, UK libraries are offering advertising agencies and their clients the opportunity to place promotional inserts within their books.”
Are Libraries Useful?
August 29th, 2007Louise Tucker, blogging in the Guardian - “There is an incredible assumption here that ‘most people’ have the means to pay for reading matter, similar to arguing, as I often think the government does, that ‘most people’ can afford private health care, so why bother supporting the NHS?”