Archive for July, 2009

Help Yourself

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Self help books have been the big publishing success of the past couple of decades but it is not just a recent phenomenon. Back in the 1850s, Charles Darwin’s seminal work on the Origin of Species was outsold by a self help book. In an interview with John Humprhys on the Today Programme Radio 4 [...]

Libraries ’should be like church’

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

On yesterday morning’s Today Programme on Radio 4 John Humprhrys discussed the parlous state of our Libraries with author Beryl Bainbridge and wondered what could be done to improve matters. Richard Denny wrote an article on this very subject for ‘Managing Information’ June 2008 which should be added to the debate as librarians from [...]