Library Web Newsletter Archive, 2007–2011
A mailing-list archive of 232 Library Web newsletters survives from February 2007 to November 2011. What it contains, month by month, and what it proves.
Library Web Archive
Before it became the site you are reading, libraryweb.info was a small web magazine about libraries and reading culture online, published between 2008 and 2010. This section exists so that history has a home rather than a dead end.
The archive is deliberately secondary. It explains what the earlier project was, how its subject matter relates to what we publish now, and why old addresses may be pointed here over time instead of returning an error. We do not reconstruct the old pages from memory, and we list no titles or figures we cannot verify.
For current writing, the live sections are the place to start: The Modern Library for what libraries do today, Digital Library for collections that live online, and Future of Knowledge for where all of it is heading.
The background is set out in Library Web Archive — Library Culture on the Web, 2008–2010. What survives outside this site is indexed in Library Web Newsletter Archive, 2007–2011, and the old article directory still answers at its own address, /articledir.php, because the links that reach it name a section rather than the page.
If you remember the earlier site and can help fill a gap in the record, the contact page has the address.
Articles in this section
Library Web Archive — Library Culture on the Web, 2008–2010
Why this domain keeps a record of its earlier life as a web magazine about libraries and reading culture online, published between 2008 and 2010.
Related Library Web topics
The subjects the earlier Library Web wrote about, as this site covers them now.
- The Value of Public Libraries: What the Evidence Shows
Public libraries are judged on more than loans: literacy, digital access, employment, community and trust. What the evidence supports, and what it cannot.
- Bibliotherapy: How Reading and Libraries Can Support Wellbeing
Bibliotherapy covers three quite different practices. What libraries actually run, what the research supports, and what reading-based support cannot do.
- Library 2.0: What the Term Meant and What Survived
Library 2.0 was the argument that libraries should be built around participation rather than announcement. What it proposed, what failed, and what stayed.
- A History of Ebooks in Libraries
From the first e-readers to licensing, DRM and the two-week loan of a file: how library ebook lending was built, and why it works the way it does.
- WorldCat and Union Catalogues
A union catalogue lets one search cover many libraries at once. How shared cataloguing works, what WorldCat is, and why libraries describe a book once.
- Social Media and Libraries
Libraries were early to social platforms and are now rebuilding their own channels. What worked, what the platforms took back, and what belongs on a feed.
- Digital and Media Literacy in Public Libraries
Public libraries teach the skills the internet assumes people already have: accounts, forms, devices, and judging what you are reading. How that work runs.