Transcription of Interview with Wes White, Library Development Officer, Canada Water Library.
This interview is part of ‘The Public libraries of London’ collection of interviews with library staff members from public libraries of London. The collection can be accessed through the Layers of London website, via:…[Read more]

In the first episode of Hannibal (2013-15), FBI profiler Will Graham is called to examine a body impaled on antlers in the middle of a field – presumably the work of the so-called Minnesota Shrike. Graham quickly determines that, while this crime superficially resembles that of other Shrike victims, its difference is such that this ‘field kab…[Read more]

This is no longer just kids on an adventure. Yates’s transtextual citations here imbue J.K. Rowling’s coming-of-age tale with a truly apocalyptic foreboding — one that exceeds the ostensible youth orientation of the Harry Potter films.

Writing of cultural studies in 1986, Tania Modleski observed that female scholars, “denied access to pleasure, while simultaneously being scapegoated for seeming to represent it,” have no recourse within a critical framework but to accept an “adversarial position” towards popular culture. In the same way, when fangirls’ emotions are the thing tha…[Read more]

Reviews the relation between research and practice in library and information science, and argues for a closer relation between the two, with theory forming a vital third aspect for the discipline and profession