Reposting my guest blog from The Periscope PostAccording to CILIP, the professional body of our country’s librarians, one in six adults in the UK are functionally illiterate. This means they have literacy below that expected of the average 11 year old. We are not talking here about using reading as a leisure activity, as a…

Like many bloggers I am guilty of occasional long silences, a result of having too much to do and yet not much to say about it either. I’ve been travelling a lot, doing talks and school events, and got back last week from the States, where I’d been in New Orleans at the ALA conference,…