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In just a few days, the UK electorate will be called upon to reach what is arguably the most momentous political decision in a generation. The result of the referendum on membership of the European Union […]

Universal Credit, benefits claimants and the pressure on library services By Stéphane Goldstein What might be the impact of reforms to the welfare benefits system on usage of public libraries? This is an emerging question in the UK, in the light of the Government’s  introduction of Universal Credit (UC) – a system designed to simplify […]

A few days ago, I attended a talk by Ian Clark on the subject of surveillance, libraries and digital inclusion. Ian is an psychology subject librarian, and also a member of the Radical Librarians Collective; as such, he holds pretty thought-provoking views on the way that information is used (and abused) in contemporary society […]

By Stéphane Goldstein This is my inaugural blog for the re-launched InformAll website. It’s been re-launched because InformAll is shortly to acquire a life of its own; from January, it becomes an social enterprise in its own right, and independent consultancy focused on developing awareness of information literacy. It will no longer operate under the […]