DIANA GUTHRIE reports on our Annual Conference held on Saturday 6 April 2019 in the Oxford headquarters of the Universities’ and Colleges’ Christian Fellowship PUBLISHERS AND ROBOTS A group of CLIS members plus guests gathered in the comfortable surroundings of UCCF’s headquarters in Blue Boar House in the centre of Oxford for the Annual Conference. … Continue reading Publishers & Robots – report on CLIS Annual Conference April 2019

"DEMOS carried out research over the summer of 2018 to assess the potential impact of reading on several great challenges of our time: loneliness, mental health problems, dementia and social (im)mobility... In a worst case scenario, the social, political and financial pressures of these challenges will pit the young against the old, the privileged against … Continue reading A petition to encourage the Government to invest directly in our public libraries

Dr. Dorothy Margaret Keeling died on 27 March 2018 after a long battle against cancer. Prior to her retirement in 2004, Margaret held senior positions in the public library services in Staffordshire and Essex, finishing her career as Head of Libraries, Information, Heritage and Culture in Essex. Margaret Keeling’s first permanent appointment in Staffordshire was … Continue reading Obituary of Margaret Keeling, BA, MA, MCLIP, PhD