Auto renewals
Writing a script to auto-renew your library books
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- PLR 1
- Environment 1
Tutorial
IP data - creating an RSS feed
Use Google apps scripts to make use of IP weekly list data
IP data - mapping applicant postcodes
Looking at intellectual property trademark and patent location data to produce interactive maps.
Making interactive web charts with Highcharts
Linking to CSV data to quickly publish live charts on the web.
British national bibliography smartwatch app
creating a smartwatch app to show books published or set in the current location
Creating data driven dashboards
Interactive charts that cross-filter data to provide dynamic dashboards.
Create a library news map
Turning RSS WordPress posts into tabular data
Making your own library account barcode
A new library app advertises an on screen barcode - but you can do your own
Automation on mobile operating systems
Using SL4A to make use of mobile device features and automate tasks
Global library stats
Using YQL to query OCLC global library stats
Book search auto-complete
Helping users to search for items by looking up API data
Open data
Getting started with open data
How does a public library service start out when publishing data?
Being an open data advocate
Advocating for open data when everyone agrees with you
Library data flows
How library data flows from public libraries to third parties
National public library data
Encouring good national library data across services
Open data for library managers
Getting buy-in from senior management for open data
Wales: library locations
Looking at library locations in Wales and access to libraries
Make it open
A cuture of open by default for 2017
Where to find public libraries open data
Searching through government portals and local data stores
Public libraries open data
Where is the open data investment for public libraries?
Connecting and opening local government data
The challenges of opening up data from local government systems
Mobile libraries
Mobile libraries: content sharing
Creating ways of sharing content from the portal to individual sites
In praise of mobile libraries
Why are mobile libraries so interesting?
Mobile libraries: Scottish service websites
Assessing mobile library information in Scotland
Mobile libraries: GPS
Visualising mobile library real-time locations
Mobile libraries: iCalendars
Generating iCalendar format data files for mobile library stops
Mobile libraries: routing
Calculating mobile library routes
Mobile libraries: data schema
Designing a data schema to hold mobile library stops and timetables
Mobile libraries: project introduction
Promoting the use of mobile library data to solve problems
Public libraries
Libraries and the environment
Tackling climate change in public libraries
Freedom of information and library stats
They won’t give me public data
Inside out data
Mixing up inputs and outputs
September accessibility challenge
Making the Scottish library strategy accessible web content
Library catalogue API
Providing a platform to search multiple library catalogues
Public library data needs
Can we provide for the needs of all library data users?
Great public library services
Examples of excellence in data and technology
Don’t be afraid of data
The data aspect of public library accreditation
Security
Library password encryption
Discovering my library password is held without encryption
Mobile libraries: authentication
Managing authentication for mobile library data
Encryption, library catalogues, and security testing
Testing the encryption of library catalogue websites
Mobile app security testing
Investigating the security of mobile apps
How secure is your library app?
Do you know if your login and personal details are encrypted while using your library app?
Making sure your hack sites can’t be hacked
WordPress is a popular platform for hack sites - but it leaves security to the administrator.
Data
A method for library data storytelling
Notes for tackling deriving insight and stories from library data
Library data storytelling
An invitation for public library organisations to get involved in sharing data stories
Rainy libraries
Using climate data to analyse the rainiest libraries in England
PLR consultation 2022
A response to the Rate Per Loan 2021 to 2022 consultation for Public Lending Right
Library data authentication
Securing a system for maintaining open data
Websites
Creating a library finder
The problems and considerations in creating a cross-authority library search
Digital grants programme
Ideas for digital projects to improve library services
Library web accessibility
Time to comply with accessibility legislation
Public library websites
Looking through UK public library online services
Events
A digital library community
Results from the digital library community survey
Wuthering hacks
Newcastle libraries open data process and library hack day
Hybrid events
Exploring hybrid events within hacks and code events.
Geography
Plymouth library finder
Displaying library open data in a library finder
Library postcode lottery
Play the English library postcode lottery
Public libraries and deprivation
Analysing the location of libraries and the indices of deprivation
CIPFA
Public library stats
Summary of how UK stats for libraries work
What CIPFA did last summer
Stop sending data to CIPFA and divert it to Open Data
CIPFA library stats - a race to the bottom
Issues with the UK library performance measures
Libraries Hacked
Libraries Hacked 2021
Everybody’s losing someone
Website launched 13th June
Introduction to libraries hacked
Tutorials
Membership mapping update
Feedback received from initial pilot testing of the membership mapping tool
Library membership mapping
Instructions for producing maps of library membership
Library Stategy
Missing libraries: towns in England without a public library
An analysis using library locations and built-up areas to find the places without a public library
England library strategy 2023
A submission to the advisory panel for the upcoming library strategy
Ideas
Wallpaper ebooks: how could it be done?
Allowing users to access ebooks by holding their phone to wallpaper or posters
Software
A single view of library services
Portals to interact with and combine library catalogue services across authorities and sectors
Global
World library rankings
Ranking literacy by using global library provision
Analysis
Library catchment areas
How do public libraries define catchment areas?
Authentication
Mobile libraries: authentication
Managing authentication for mobile library data
National data
A public library data strategy
Steps to create a strategy for national data in public libraries
Library data schema
Public library membership
The membership dataset of the public libraries data schema
Digital transformation
Digital transformation
Public library digital transformation
Open Data
A funding idea
Documenting an application for a public library innovation project
Projects
Funding ideas
What could be done with some money?
Library locations
Libraries on the high street
Analysing public library locations on and around high streets in England
Statistics
Freedom of information and library stats
They won’t give me public data
Public lending right
Public lending right
How public lending right data works in the UK
Application
Library events and calendars
Sharing calendar dates with libraries and the public
Accessibility
A library alt text bot
Creating a bot to promote library web accessibility
Fines
Library fines
Researching library fines across the UK
Book thoughts
Book thoughts: Data-driven decisions
Thoughts on Data-Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Library and Information Professionals
PLR
Public lending right technical change
Response to a consultation for a technical change to public lending right
Environment
Green libraries week
Going green at the library