Why librarianing from home during the coronavirus outbreak is like… a chair cushion

Hello! How are you all doing? Mostly okay? I’m mostly okay. I mean it’s weird isn’t it. I’m in the upstairs box room, perched on a wobbly old kitchen chair with my feet resting on an ancient Försiktig footstool. If I’d known when I left my library in March that I would still be at … Continue reading Why librarianing from home during the coronavirus outbreak is like… a chair cushion

Write Club – aims, names and do-it-agains

Or. What I've learned about setting up and running a Write Club at a UK university. First things first. What even is a Write Club? Well, in this instance, our Write Club is a place where people come to write. Writing is like many so other activities, it can be done all alone and on your … Continue reading Write Club – aims, names and do-it-agains

Release the Sweets! Or how I was converted to the idea of escape room activities for library inductions and beyond

Confession and conversion Confession time. I thought that there would be no way that any fancy new fangled escape room idea would work for my inductions. I've done an Escape Room, it took an hour. And that was with loads of hints from the bored 20-something who spent a large part of that hour on … Continue reading Release the Sweets! Or how I was converted to the idea of escape room activities for library inductions and beyond