@KenChad

Strategy, innovation, technology, user experience, AI user insights, research infrastructure. Libraries, scholarly comms, teaching & learning

 Brentwood UK
kenchadconsulting.com
Joined August 2009
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Next month, I’ll be speaking about picture books and autism, with @KenChad Please do join us for this free webinar: lnkd.in/edu4bqKR
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All the evidence will be in the report and presentations - this is the conclusion. This is about adult use (age 17+) of public libraries in America
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Fascinating data from our Freckle survey (US, April 25) Nearly half (46%) of library circulations are digital. (UK 8%)... library use is down by half in 12 years. Circulations are skewed to new fiction and lacking in back-list nonfiction. Funding is still £15bn and rising.
Tim Coates@coates_tim8 May 2025
Yet again we see a local council using completely nonsensical arguments to defend closure of their libraries. Yet no one from @CILIPinfo @libsconnected @DcmsLibraries @ace_national - pointing out the glaringly obvious- so that local people can see.
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Was obvious during our COVID research that public library users are at best indifferent to ebooks. Any authority pretending to themselves it's a viable strategy to replace physical libraries with them isn't interested in seriously delivering a library service.
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Simple question for UK public libraries. Is there anyone can tell us how many people used the service in 2023/24 or 2022/23? How much did it cost? How many books were loaned? How many other library services were used? @CILIPinfo @CILIPScotland @libsconnected @ace__london @DCMS
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The crisis about public libraries, everywhere, is not about money, or politicians who don't understand the service. It is about the public not understanding the changes that public libraries have made to what they do, over 30 years.
Tim Coates@coates_tim10 Jul 2024
The international problem facing public libraries...
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I know of one excellent library authority council in the UK where they are genuinely trying to address this problem in detail, bravely and thoroughly. It will take time, but their work will succeed. We need more to do the same They simply asked 'How do we reverse the fall?'
Tim Coates@coates_tim29 Jun 2024
The Quiet Crisis Facing Public Libraries -- Publishers' Weekly, New York. June 28 2024 publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t…

The Quiet Crisis Facing U.S. Public Libraries

The latest IMLS data show library visits are half what they were a decade ago—where is the response from library leaders?

publishersweekly.com
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I have prepared a very short simple PowerPoint presentation (7 slides) to give to council leaders about their public libraries - if anybody wants it
Tim Coates@coates_tim17 Jun 2024
Replying to @coates_tim @wylie_alan
If anybody wants, I can prepare a PowerPoint presentation to use when approaching leaders of councils.
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Replying to @Hororo @wylie_alan @CILIPinfo
Alan is making a really important point which is that in an appeal for public money it is SO important to stress that public libraries concentrate on offering books and free. That is the one subject the public understands. This is not about librarians. It’s about ordinary people
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In 2010: Funding of English public libraries was £20.53, per person. In 2022 it was £10.84 (minus 49%) (CIPFA) In 2010: Funding of US public libraries was $35.06 per person. In 2022 it was $40.42 (plus 15%) (IMLS) @CILIPinfo @libsconnected @publiclibnews @ace__london @LGANews
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The annual number of visits to public libraries in the UK has fallen by 40% since 2018. That figure first appeared in analysis of the DCMS 'Participation' survey and is echoed in the data returned by councils to CIPFA for 2022/23 Half of library book lending is now to children
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Happy new year! We're delighted to announce the topic of our first members-only seminar of 2024. @KenChad will present 'Directions for Library Technology - Enhancing librarian impact and library value propositions'. For more information visit colric.org.uk/events #FE
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Who is doing the most interesting/innovative work in the Library Management System space? Could be either vendor or library-side. Would love to hear who's driving innovation. It's for a thing!
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Important @PwC_UK report for @beisgovuk explores the likely impacts of AI, machine learning and related tech on the future workforce. Similar findings to the recent @CILIPinfo #TechReview funded by @NHS_HealthEdEng. Valuable read for #InfoPros MT @SueLaceybryant
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Great to speak to @sadienine @BBCEssex about @Essex_CC joining the Library Consortium. Essex residents now have access to an extra 6 million books, ebooks, journals etc. You can visit libraries in 18 other areas or order items to local branches for collection. #libraries #Essex
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A really sensible and realistic report from Ken Chad and Sarah Bartlett on the state of community engagement in the technology available in UK public libraries .. kenchadconsulting.com/public…
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Next month we will see the public library performance for the year to March 2020. Use will have fallen again During 20/21 and the lockdowns it will have fallen much further, probably to just 5-10% of previous years The big challenge will be to restore its public reputation
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@KenChad
Association of Research Libraries@ARLnews19 Sep 2019
The latest issue of Research Library Issues, no. 299, examines the ethical implications of artificial intelligence in the context of knowledge production, dissemination, and preservation. #AI #ethics #libraries arl.org/news/ethics-of-artif…
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Good dataset searching on Google #kohacon19 @KenChad @DBSLibraryTwits @DBScollege
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How can UK academic libraries respond to the changes in scholarly publishing and collection(s) development, some trends and options can be found at slideshare.net/StuartDempste…
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