Articles
Running a library, written down.
What we have learned building BeeShelf and talking to the people who run school, community and organisation libraries. Practical, specific, and free of jargon.
- 20 July 2026
How to catalogue a school library, start to finish
A practical order of work for cataloguing a school library, from the first shelf to a searchable catalogue, written for whoever got handed the job.
- 20 July 2026
How to start a school library from scratch
There is no library, and somebody has decided there should be. A practical order of work, with real numbers, for the person who has to make it happen.
- 20 July 2026
Moving a library off a spreadsheet without losing anything
What breaks when a library outgrows Excel, how to get your rows into a real system, and how to keep the parts of the spreadsheet that were working.
- 20 July 2026
How to run a library stocktake in an afternoon
A practical method for counting a small library's shelves, deciding what counts as missing, and finishing in hours rather than weeks.