Beyond Books

Free Content

We often hold free workshops and when possible we upload the recordings here. The podcast and essays are published via Substack, and other recording simply link to a drive. The podcast ranges far and wide on anything connected to libraries, we interview publishers, authors, readers, and lots of librarians. If you enjoy these then please consider registering for one of our affordable workshops.

Vivienne Blake shows us how to prep students for university by Atheneum

and also how to collaborate

Read on Substack

John Royce & I discuss AI by Atheneum

and how, actually, not much has changed.

Read on Substack
Librarians Online – free workshops

This short term projet was created to support online learning during the Iran conflict. 

Online learning isn’t great, but we aimed to make it as good as possible.

Four companies showed their quality and gave us free access to their platforms 

 – Britannica, Capstone, Scholastic, & Collins.

We had 300+ people in each session, which proved our suspicions that it was much needed.

It was experiences such as this that eventually led me to create the Athenaeum Project.

Libraries Online #1 – watch the recording

Libraries Online #2 – watch the recording

Libraries Online #3 – watch the recording

These are some quirky little skills videos that I made as an experiment