Library news from the web, with a leaning towards public libraries.
An article on Library Web has been published by CILIP's Refer journal and can be found in the Spring 2010 edition.
A quick note on directory categories. I haven't created the CMS (Content Management System) necessary to maintain categories properly. However what I have done may be of use and so here is a brief explanation of categories created. Note articles may have beeen placed in more than one category. The two main categories are probably Technology and UK Libraries Administration.
Audio Books occasional posts
Awards, Promotions, Festivals book prizes mainly (with a few erroneous book promotions - World Book Day, Quick Reads - which I would probably file under Reader Development nowadays)
Bibliotherapy books and health!
Book Groups/Clubs/Websites maintained (for more on Websites see Reader Development)
Book Theft occasional posting
Books and Authors articles about individual authors and their books
Books, Per Se 'Evolution of the Book', etc.
Books, Professional books of interest to librarians
Bookshops a perennial theme, the comparison of libraries to bookshops
Business library services for business
Career library careers, see also Jobs and Careers
Cataloguing / Cataloguing and Classification (I have created 2 categories here inadvertently, please refer to both)
Censorship of books
Charity charities and their work with libraries and books
Children articles relating to junior readership (see also Teenagers)
Collection Development stock editing, etc.
Commercial gifts for book lovers and librarians (paraphernalia)
Community librarian networking, message boards etc. (see also Home Pages and Blogs)
Computer Games and libraries
Copyright and books
Current Publications and Events recently published web open journals etc. and
Disabled Users see also Visually Impaired
Diversity minorities etc., see also Ethnic Minorities, Equal Opportunities
Employment Issues in the workplace
Ethics library ethics
Ethnic Minorities multiculturalism, see also Diversity, Equal Opportunities
Family History genealogy, occasional posting
Fiction and genera
Film books and film
Game Playing video games etc. in libraries
Graphic Novels in libraries
Home Library building your own library at home
Home Pages and Blogs library staff, see also Community
Homeless, The and libraries
Humour and Trivia and libraries
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Image the image of librarians and libraries in society
Information occasional posting
Information Literacy occasional posting
Information Overload a topic of our age (or is it?!)
International articles relating to libraries outside of the UK
Internet Libraries and Bibliographies collections of e-books and catalogues on the Internet, see also Portals and Search Engines
Jobs and Careers in libraries, see also Career
Knowledge Management field of
Learning lifelong learning in libraries
Legal Deposit (1 article)
Legislation " the right of access to information"
Librarianship the profession
Libraries and Library Related Organisations in the UK
Libraries, Future Of increasingly added to, see also Library 2.0
Libraries, Old and New historical and futuristic
Libraries, Psychology of an unusual topic, but 1 article here
Library Art films, music, artwork etc. about libraries, see also Entertainment
Library History the history of the libraries
Library Management issues for managers
Library Policy issues of library policy, see also Supplier Selection
Library Quotations wisdom
Library Science the field, see also LIS Research
Library Software library management systems, OPACs, mainly though see Technology
Library Values the role and value of libraries in society, see also Social Problems
LIS Research library research in the UK, see also Library Science
Local Studies (1 article)
Marketing and libraries
Miscellaneous and Unusual drill cart competitions, haunted libraries, etc.
Mobile Libraries (note I have not tended to include closures here, see UK Libraries Administration for these)
Portals and Search Engines library resources, see also Internet Libraries and Bibliographies
Publications e-journals, podcasts, etc.
Reader Development though this should I think be called The Reader-centred Library nowadays
Reading literacy in society, reading per se
Reference I've inadvertently created two Reference categories and do not have the Content Management System to remedy the error, so please refer to both; see also Local Studies and Family History
Storytelling culture, society and libraries
Study/Research Skills for the studious library staff
Supplier Selection stock management
Technology e-books, RFID, Web 2.0, everything and anything to do with technology and libraries, a heavily posted category, see also Toolbox [NB Google book scanning has also been placed in this category]
Teenagers teen reading
Toolbox Web 2.0 tools for libraries and librarians, see also Technology
Toy Libraries (just the one article)
Training Resources to be used in the library
UK and European Libraries news from individual libraries
UK Libraries Administration anything to do with the administration of libraries in the UK: DCMS, MLA, library closures, reviews and inquiries, comment and analysis etc. (a heavily posted category)
Visually Impaired see also Disabled Users
Writing libraries and writing
NB The following categories are no longer used:
Blogging transferred to Technology 2007
Book and Reading Trends transferred to Reading 2008
Book Digitisation transferred to Technology 2007
Book Fairs one interesting post from 2009! but see also Awards, Promotions, Festivals
CILIP see UK Libraries Administration (though there are 3 articles here)
Conferences transferred to Current Publications and Events 2008
Crime transferred to Fiction 2009
Cultural Heritage not maintained as a separate category since 2009 (4 articles)
Culture not maintained as a separate category since 2009 (6 articles)
Culture Select Committee not maintained as a separate category since 2007 (1 articles)
Democracy transferred to Library Values 2010 (2 articles)
Entertainment transferred to Library Art 2008(a number of articles, 4 links)
Environment transferred to Technology 2007 (2 articles)
Library 2.0 transferred to Technology and Libraries, Future Of 2009 (numbers of articles)
Sci-Fi transferred to Fiction 2010 (3 articles)
Social Problems transferred to Library Values 2010 (3 articles)
US Focus transferred to International 2008 (5 articles)