Plymouth library finder
A long-running Libraries Hacked project is a library finder. This uses Plymouth library locations, to explore how these can be presented online. You can play...
2019
A public library data strategy
Steps to create a strategy for national data in public libraries
National public library data
How to encourage good national library data
Mobile libraries: Scottish service websites
Assessing mobile library information in Scotland
Mobile libraries: authentication
Managing authentication for mobile library data
Mobile libraries: GPS
Visualising mobile library real-time locations
Open data for library managers
Getting buy-in from senior management for open
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
2018
Public lending right
The best dataset on UK public library usage is Public Lending Right (PLR).
UK public library stats
For a while many people, including me, have complained about the UK public library reliance on CIPFA for national statistics. For a simplification of this pr...
Scheduling auto renewals
Library fines can be annoying. Forget to bring a few books back and it doesn’t take long to owe more than the cost of a book. Well, so what? That’s how libra...
Wales: library locations
This is the first in a series of posts about libraries in Wales.
2016
Encryption, library catalogues, and security testing
You want to talk in confidence with someone while in public. To do this you need to: