Organisations with a social purpose make a real difference to people and communities every day. From our work in the library sector, we’ve seen how libraries can change lives: supporting communities, offering a welcoming place and providing vital lifelines in challenging times. Many organisations tend to let the work speak for itself. But in a […]
As always at this time of year, we’re taking a moment to look back at a year full of change, new ideas and ongoing conversations about the present and future of libraries. Gathering the articles featured in our newsletter that captured the most interest over the past 12 months both reminds us of some great […]
We are super excited to see the launch of the New Skills for the Future Library Leader programme we’ve been busy working with CILIP on throughout this year. The two courses that make up this professional development programme, Digital Skills for Leadership and Futures Literacy, are aimed at aspiring and emerging public library leaders across […]
This week we have put together five interesting things about mobile libraries. While these aren’t necessarily new, some are definitely new to us. And others are just neat things that should be celebrated. We are always impressed by the important work that mobile libraries do – outreach, community building, digital equity and more. The thing […]
In this series, we wanted to take a few moments to celebrate some great tools that have been developed for and by librarians (and other library pros) to solve a particular problem they’ve encountered in their work. You can read all about cataloguing tools in the first part of the series. In this part two, […]
In this series, we wanted to take a few moments to celebrate some of the amazing tools that have been developed for and by librarians (and other library pros). These often fill a vital gap in workflows or solve a pain point that library staff encounter in their work. We don’t mean the big tools […]
As the year ends, we always like to take a moment to reflect on the past 12 months and what we’ve learned. A favourite part of this is sharing the most popular newsletter links, which inspire our team and, hopefully, our readers too. And while admittedly our own blog was a little neglected this year, […]
While we wear many hats, building things has always been central to our work at Artefacto. We’ve always described ourselves as both makers and librarians and our consultancy, training and design work fits within these identities. We are especially excited when we can build and share tools, resources and platforms that deliver a user-friendly experience. […]
We’re excited to be part of the upcoming Health Libraries Group Conference 2024. Kate from Artefacto will be presenting at the HLG conference, where she’ll talk about our ongoing partnership with a network of fantastic UK health libraries. Health Library and Information Services Directory (HLISD), affectionately known as health lizard🦎, is a directory for the […]
We love seeing case studies, posts and articles from libraries and library staff celebrating their wins, whether big and small. But we also learn a lot from libraries sharing their experiences when things don’t necessarily go to plan. And we’ve learnt from publishing more than 230 issues of our library newsletter that library professionals also […]