Good news about Gorbals Library
A colleague of mine pointed out this article in the Herald online yesterday which may be of some interest. It is about the reinvention of the Gorbals Library and how it has embraced technology to enhance its services. I have to admit, I have a friend who recently moved to the gorbals so i have seen the library and it does look impressive, very modern with lots of clean cut lines and shiny glass!
This was another thing that I spotted on the CILIP Daily news email which I felt was quite interesting… it doesn’t give any more details than that below, but i remember seeing a picture of a library in which all the books had been classified by the colour of their spine… so all the black books were together, and the blue, red and so forth… I’m sure this one is a bit more systematic though 
“Jason Healey, a design student at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth has developed a classification system using colours and symbols to make it easier for people with disabilities to find their way around the library. Julia Waite, CILIP Member and Librarian at the Institute said she was interested in the idea ‘to get people to the right part of the library without using numbers’. Jason Healey’s system was given a Best New Blood Award from educational charity D&AD.”
THES, pp54-55, 25 May
Quick post - author loves libraries
Just a quick one to point to an article by author Lionel Shriver on the Guardian website today (via cilip daily news bulletin), in which she explains just how much she loves libraries and how they have been of benefit to her as an author. I had never really thought of libraries providing much benefit for authors (who indeed should perhaps rather that readers bought their books rather than borrowed them) but it was quite nice to read that they are still appreciated.
