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In a piece running on the New York Times's DealB%k section (…yeah: I don't know what they think they're doing with that percentage sign, either; but, it's the New York Times so what are you going to do, right?), writer Jessica Silver-Greenberg draws a comparison between the mortgage meltdown and the current crisis among credit card debt collections.
"As they work through a glut of bad loans, companies like American Express, Citigroup and Discover Financial are going to court to recoup their money. But many of the lawsuits rely on erroneous documents, incomplete records and generic testimony from witnesses, according to judges who oversee the cases."
The worry is: too many debts are being churned through the system too quickly, with little attempt to verify the validity of the debt. This, according to the Times and other pro-consumer groups, is a danger to consumers and in need of serious regulation.
(Which is not to suggest that the collection industry doesn't have an issue, sometimes, with robo-signing. And this is not to suggest that there aren't instances where that chain of ownership gets a little murky when it comes to debt porfolios. This is to suggest, however, that sometimes to tell a story we pick and choose the evidence we want to relate — and this piece is heavy on singling out only those instances that make their case.)
"Amid the surge in lawsuits, credit card companies are facing scrutiny. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is investigating JPMorgan Chase after a former employee said that nearly 23,000 delinquent accounts had incorrect balances, according to people with knowledge of the investigation."
The article also brings up the new spectre of "robo-testimony":
Last year, American Express sued Felicia Tancreto, claiming that she had stopped making payments and owed more than $16,000 on her credit card.
While Ms. Tancreto was behind on her payments, she contested owing the full amount, according to court records. In April, Judge Dear dismissed the lawsuit, citing a lack of evidence. The American Express employee who testified, the judge noted, provided generic testimony about the way the company maintained its records. The same witness gave similar evidence in other cases, which the judge said amounted to 'robo-testimony.'
For those of you reading who primarily work credit card paper: are you seeing increased issues with consumers reporting that you're pursuing debt that's not valid? Are credit card companies — either wittingly or unwittingly — passing on bad paper to your agencies, in the hopes of recouping?


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|May 1, 2001
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|Jun 19, 1997
|Priority date
|Jun 19, 1997
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|Jason T. Sterne, Denny L. S. Lee, Stanko Vuleta
|Original Assignee
|Alcatel Canada Inc.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (4), Classifications (10), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology and more particularly to an ATM telecommunications system having a traffic shaping entity to maintain accurate scheduling in the event of a cell insertion into the traffic stream by a downstream device.
The use of telecommunications equipment for both personal and enterprise requirements has been dramatically increasing for the past number of years. With this increased use comes the demand for greater efficiency and higher bandwidths. Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology is being seen as the solution of choice to meet these demands. One of the key attributes of ATM technology is its ability to efficiently carry many types of information traffic such as data, voice and video and to provide a variety of qualities of service (QoS) for network applications.
An issue of great importance to users and developers of ATM switches is how to manage the traffic in an efficient manner in order to gain a high degree of bandwidth utilization on a wide area network. The ATM Forum sets out numerous criteria with respect to the nature and requirements of traffic management in ATM systems. Included in these criteria are several traffic descriptors which are basically a set of parameters used to capture the intrinsic characteristics of particular streams of network data. These standard traffic descriptors allow an ATM switch to use statistical models based on the traffic descriptors to efficiently allocate resources (bandwidth, buffers) amongst the various streams of traffic.
Because the allocation of resources in an ATM network is based on some basic parameters that characterize traffic streams, it is important that the traffic streams behave as closely as possible to those traffic descriptor parameters. The more closely the traffic streams adhere to the traffic descriptors, the more accurate the allocation of network resources will be. If the allocation of network resource is very accurate then the usage of these resources will be very efficient while maintaining the required qualities of service for all traffic.
One method of insuring that ATM traffic streams conform to the negotiated traffic contract is to police the data with a usage parameter control (UPC) algorithm. A more desirable method of assuring traffic conformance is to employ traffic shaping. Traffic shaping takes a stream of data and reshapes its attributes so that it conforms to the traffic descriptor. Shaping allows a slightly nonconforming stream to become conforming with no cell loss.
When traffic shaping is employed in a network it is important that the traffic be shaped accurately to conform as closely as possible to the parameters of the traffic contract. A problem can arise when a cell can be inserted into a traffic stream at a point that is downstream from a traffic shaping entity. This cell insertion can cause several problems including violation of the strict traffic descriptor parameters or an instantaneous and unrecoverable increase in cell transfer delay (CTD) for every traffic stream serviced by the shaper. The actual problem encountered depends on the specific details of implementation of the cell insertion and shaping devices.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a traffic shaping entity having both the means and the method of maintaining accurate shaping for close conformance to the traffic descriptor and minimal introduction of CTD even in the face of a cell insertion into a traffic stream by a downstream device.
Therefore, in accordance with a first aspect of the present invention there is provided in an ATM communication system having a calendar scheduling device for shaping cell traffic flow in accordance with defined parameters, wherein the system has means to insert cells downstream of the scheduling device, the improvement comprising correction means to maintain cell traffic flow in accordance with defined parameters in the event of a cell insertion downstream of the scheduling device. The correction means has means to detect an occurrence of a downstream insertion; feedback means to signal the occurrence of a downstream cell insertion to the scheduling device; and means in the scheduling device to generate a calendar slip.
In accordance with a second aspect of the present invention there is provided in an ATM telecommunication system having a calendar scheduling device for shaping cell traffic flow in accordance with defined parameters, the system having means to insert cells downstream of the scheduling device, a method of correcting the cell flow traffic in the event of a cell insertion downstream of the scheduling device. The method comprises: detecting the occurrence of a cell insertion downstream scheduling device, providing a feedback signal representing a downstream cell insertion to the scheduling device, and causing the scheduling device to generate a calendar slip.
The invention will now be described in greater detail with reference to the attached drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 illustrates a simple calendar operation for connection scheduling;
FIG. 2 illustrates an example of a calendar slip; and
FIG. 3 represents a typical functional layout for ATM cell processing.
The operation of calendar scheduling will now be described with reference to FIG. 1. Calendar scheduling is used in ATM applications to determine when to transmit a cell from a given connection. This scheduling is directly applicable to a shaping function. Time is generally referenced in cell times, where one cell time is the time from which the first bit of one cell passes a reference point until the time when the first bit of the next cell passes the same reference point. As an example, one cell time in an OC3 link operating at 149.76 Mb/s is about 2.83 us. As the current time, which is shown by the arrow in FIG. 1, moves forward it will pass a connection's scheduled transmit time. In the present invention, the current time is based on a time reference such as an internal clock or is taken from the data stream. As shown in FIG. 1 the calendar includes virtual connections (VC) 1, 2 and 3 positioned in cell slots. In FIG. 1, VCs 1 and 2 are the same speed while VC 3 is slower than VCs 1 and 2. At time t=0, VCs 1, 2 and 3 are located in successive cell slots. At time t=1, a cell from virtual channel 1 is transmitted and channel 1 is rescheduled as illustrated. At time t=2, a cell is transmitted from virtual channel 2 and VC 2 is rescheduled immediately after VC 1. At time t=3, a cell from virtual channel 3 is transmitted and rescheduled in the calendar. As VC 3 is slower than VCs 1 and 2, VC 3 is placed in the calendar with gaps or holes between VC 3 and VC 2. At time t=4, as there is no connection in the next calendar slot, no cells are transmitted.
A concept that is important to the understanding of the present invention is what is referred to as a calendar slip. A calendar slip occurs when the current time is stepped forward but no cells are allowed to be transmitted at that particular time due to a cell insertion or the transmission of some higher priority cells.
A calendar slip when there was no cell to be transmitted anyway as in time t=4 in FIG. 1 has no effect. However, when a calendar slip occurs at a point in time when a connection should have been serviced, then all scheduled connections have to be rescheduled at one time slot later. This rescheduling only needs to occur down the calendar until a hole or gap is encountered.
It is the aforementioned calendar slip that is used to correct for downstream cell insertions in the present invention. The actual implementation of a calendar slip may vary but the result will be the same. Every connection until a hole or gap is found must be rescheduled to one slot later. This is shown in FIG. 2. As in the previous figure, the current time is illustrated by the vertical arrow. The calendar for time t=0, includes six virtual connections with virtual connections 1 through 4 appearing in sequential slots followed by two holes or gaps followed by virtual connections 5 and 6. The concept of a calendar slip is illustrated in the uppermost calendar for time t=1. The calendar slip means that a cell from virtual channel 1 is not transmitted but rather all of the virtual connections up to the first hole are rescheduled for one time slot later. Thus, as shown in the third calendar from the top also at time t=1, one of the holes or gaps has been filled. At time t=2, a cell from virtual connection 1 is transmitted and virtual channel 1 is rescheduled based on when VC 1 was supposed to have been serviced. Thus, each connection must remember the time when it was supposed to have been serviced, this time is called the theoretical service time (TST). This TST can be used when a connection is serviced and needs to be rescheduled. The rescheduling will occur based on the TST rather than the actual time that a connection was serviced and thus a connection can recover from a slip.
FIG. 3 is used to illustrate the scheduling correction mechanism according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a typical functional layout for ATM cell processing. It is to be understood that the devices may all be integrated or they may be separate. As shown in FIG. 3 FIFO A represents the calendar scheduling device which has its own timing source to step the calendar. FIFO B represents a device that can perform cell insertion such as an OAM cell. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not restricted to applications that insert only OAM cells. FIFO C represents another queuing point which includes a mechanism to detect when a cell insertion occurs.
The calendar scheduling device will sometimes create a burst of back-to-back cell traffic. During this burst each of the three (this number may be less or more depending on the number of FIFO stages used in a specific implementation) FIFO's will be in a steady state where one cell will arrive for each cell sent on to the next FIFO. Whenever the scheduling process results in some holes or gaps (i.e. no cells to send during some cell times), then the FIFOs will begin to drain.
Where there is a device that can perform cell insertion such as FIFO B in FIG. 3 downstream from the scheduling device, then a problem can occur when a cell insertion occurs, or is requested, during a period when the scheduling device is transmitting a burst of back-to-back cells. There is simply no room in the cell stream for the insertion. If an insertion occurs the FIFOs will fail further and additional insertions could cause the FIFOs to overflow resulting in cell loss.
One possible solution to this problem would be to simply not step the calendar once in order to leave a space for the inserted cell. However, this method means that the timing reference will be lost and would introduce an instantaneous and unrecoverable increase in cell transfer delay (CTD) since every subsequent cell transmitted by the scheduler will now be one cell time late. In fact, each insertion will cause accumulative CTD which results in a perceived loss of bandwidth for each and every connection.
According to the invention, the calendar scheduling device generates a calendar slip when it is notified of, or detects itself, a downstream cell insertion. When the calendar is slipped, the timing reference is not lost because the current time still moves forward correctly. Slipping the calendar means that CTD will be introduced but only for each scheduled connection until there is a hole or gap in the calendar. The CTD is recoverable on the connection because the connections can be rescheduled based on the time that they should have been serviced.
While a particular embodiment of the invention has been described and illustrated it will be apparent to one skilled in the art to which the invention pertains that many alternatives and variations can be effected. It is to be understood that such alternatives and variations are assumed, to the extent possible, to fall within the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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|May 10, 1995
|Jul 9, 1996
|Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
|Traffic shaping system using two dimensional timing chains
|Sep 11, 1995
|Feb 11, 1997
|International Business Machines Corporation
|Method and an apparatus for shaping the output traffic in a fixed length cell switching network node
|Nov 17, 1995
|Jun 9, 1998
|Telecommunications Techniques Corporation
|Rate-matched cell identification and modification, replacement, or insertion for test and measurement of ATM network virtual connections
|Aug 22, 1996
|Nov 3, 1998
|Lucent Technologies, Inc.
|Method for leaky bucket traffic shaping using fair queueing collision arbitration
|Mar 27, 1997
|Nov 10, 1998
|Cisco Technology, Inc.
|Multi-level rate scheduler
|Apr 4, 1997
|Jan 26, 1999
|At&T Corp/Csi Zeinet(A Cabletron Co.)
|Method for integrated traffic shaping in a packet-switched network
|Jan 22, 1997
|Aug 31, 1999
|International Business Machines Corporation
|Scheduling method and apparatus for supporting ATM connections having a guaranteed minimun bandwidth
|Feb 22, 1994
|Aug 30, 1995
|ALCATEL BELL Naamloze Vennootschap
|Method of shaping a cell stream including user cells and OAM cells
|Sep 2, 1996
|Mar 20, 1997
|Philips Electronics N.V.
|Transmission system for synchronous and asynchronous data portions
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|Filing date
|Publication date
|Oct 13, 1998
|Feb 25, 2003
|Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc.
|System and method for scheduling and rescheduling the transmission of cell objects of different traffic types
|Sep 12, 2002
|Mar 28, 2006
|International Business Machines Corporation
|Scalable hardware scheduler time based calendar search algorithm
|Jul 6, 2000
|Oct 24, 2006
|Cisco Technology, Inc.
|Scalable system and method for reliably sequencing changes in signaling bits in multichannel telecommunication lines transmitted over a network
|Sep 12, 2002
|Mar 27, 2003
|International Business Machines Corporation
|Scalable hardware scheduler time based calendar search algorithm
|U.S. Classification
|370/231, 370/236
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jun 19, 1997
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Dec 13th
Posted by Ian Anstice in Uncategorized
Every year, for three years now (see 2014 and 2013) I've had a think about the trends that I've noticed over the last twelve months. Such observations are obviously subjective and liable to the whims of the moment but hopefully give you a snapshot of what is happening. I'd be delighted to hear your views on the ones I included – and any that I have missed – by email via email@example.com.
1. The General Election. The election of the Conservatives for the next five years means deep cuts to local council budgets up to 2020. We have seen what that has meant since 2010. The vote is the most important thing that has happened to public libraries this year, and for the next five. Expect deep cuts to public libraries, with as hands-free direction as possible from central government. Councils are going to find it very hard to maintain libraries (indeed some, like Herefordshire and Lincolnshire, are barely trying now) and, with library services already cut to the bone in many places, it hard to see much light at the end of the tunnel for smaller branches nationwide.
2. The Leadership for Libraries Taskforce begins. This got up and running this year, with the main thing resulting from it so far is a whole ton of visits to public libraries and interested agencies, including government departments. Not overly much else has been achieved yet (with the debatable but not insignificant exception of finally getting pretty much every public library to receive WiFi) and the fear of many is that the group will have insufficient actual leadership. However, at the very least, they're another voice supporting libraries and they have started making a (limited) impact.
3. CILIP taking a more active role. It's been a pleasure to see Nick Poole take over as CEO with a new bunch of trustees. The organisation has finally started commenting on the news when councils announce big cuts to libraries. I know from conversations held that they also have big plans for campaigning in the future, including on the all important statutory nature of libraries (on which they have received pro bono legal advice). I just hope that the organisation can avoid the obsession with internal matters that so dogged the previous five years (rebranding anyone?) and actually start doing things for public libraries. Fingers crossed. [declaration of interest: thanks very much for the honorary fellowship this year, CILIP – Ed.]
4. Remote control libraries. For better or for worse, the Bibliotheca Open+ system has attracted the attention of many authorities. This allows for an unstaffed library to be open to the public, with CCTV remotely supervised buildings and the public getting in via their library card and PIN. A big problem is that it looks like under 16s are not allowed in without a parent (and that's a massive issue) but for councils who see only the headline of "library kept open" or even "library opening hours extended" and not the deeper issue of the quality of service, it's very tempting.
5. Decline in usage and funding. The recent CIPFA figures show a big drop in usage, most notably in children's issues. This is very distressing. My suspicion, strengthened by seeing what is happening in other countries where there is no such drop in popularity, is that usage depends on budgets and, at least five years into an absence of money, people are seriously starting to notice the "hollowed out" nature of many library services. My worry is that politicians, and insufficiently interested observers, will see only the decline in visits and not the reasons behind them and draw the entirely erroneous conclusion that libraries are declining entirely by themselves.
6. CIPFA in need of reform. It's not just a case of shooting the messenger but an increasing realisation that data on public library performance is in an awful state. For the full figures to come out a full eight months after they are collected is abysmal in 2015 and for them to be available to the public for the massive cost of £475 (plus VAT, naturally) is positively hateful. Then we have the lack of easy comparison with previous years, avoidance of anything on outcomes (it's all outputs, folks) and the realisation that this whole mess is about a sector which should specialise in giving out relevant information to the public and one realises something needs to be done. Thankfully, the Taskforce and others appear to be on the case on this one. We'll see what influence they have this time next year.
6. The joy that is Manchester Central Library. This was the most highly visited library in the UK last year and the reasons are obvious. I am highly privileged to visit this library on a regular basis and it is always a pleasure. After a major refurbishment, the place is positively palatial and packed. There's a ton of different things on offer, from the essential (but sometimes overlooked) big quiet study space to a media lounge, big events and, interestingly, quite a lot of income generation (donation boxes, café and library shop). Their recent collaboration with Google won't hurt their reputation with the bosses, or with business, either.
8. The embarrassment that is the Library of Birmingham. This place should have been the most highly visited library last year, considering its new build and massive cost, but instead does not even make the top five. The reason is not hard to see: cuts to the budget. Opening hours were almost halved to a pathetic 40 hours per week due to lack of money. To make up for this, the LoB is now looking to moving a foreign language school into it – losing a lot of space in the process – to make ends meet. The sad thing here is that the new Library should have been a symbol of how superb the city is, instead it's a byword for its incompetence. Let's hope that lessons are learned and the library returns to its rightful place in the forefront of the city's civic pride.
9. Coding, lego and makerspaces. It was great to see the very useful (if strangely named) Code Green guidance from SCL about coding being very useful and a statement of intent. It's also been good to see a smattering of 3D printers and other Maker facilities being made available but, well, they cost money and code clubs are low-cost thanks to the volunteers.
10. Cuts seriously start hitting Wales and Scotland. One of the things that have been highly notable over the past five years is how the experience of austerity in English libraries has not been so notable in the other nations of the UK. All that came to an end this year, with their being big reductions to library numbers in Wales (a 11% cut no less) and the announcement in Fife of the lost of 16 branches.
If you take the money away, people don't come as much: CIPFA figures 2014/15
Dec 10th
The annual CIPFA figures detailing changes in UK libraries has come out, a mere eight months after the end of the financial year they are supposed to record and with a huge price tag (£475 + VAT just for the set for one year) if you want to actually drill down into the figures. That's shame enough but then you see what the figures actually show – that the decline in library funding (16% since 2010) has, unsurprisingly enough, gone hand in hand with a 14% decline in visits over the same time, with the 106 libraries closing in that year certainly not exactly helping usage. That the head of CIPFA then goes on to say, widely quoted, that the only hope is that lots of unpaid people are replacing employed staff, does not fill me with a warm glow either. Neither does the LocalGov reporting that the library figures bring "into question their long-term sustainability" of the sector. Well, of course it does, Mr LocalGov. That tends to happen to any service when you take all the money away. However, I'm not seeing such drops in usage in other countries where funding hasn't been cut. So, the decline in usage is not because people are naturally not using libraries any more but, rather, that, completely unsurprisingly, money is important. That the money isn't there is nothing to do with the viability of libraries and everything to do with political decisions at national level.
- Lancashire – Charges increase – adults 15p per day book late up to £6 maximum, children's crafts will be charged £1 per child (max £2 per family)
Closures, cuts, a new library, more e-books, LibraryLabs … and a SCL tender
Dec 8th
Scotland faces its deepest cuts to public libraries since at least 2010 (when I started PLN) with the confirmed closure of 16 libraries to "save" £500,000 per year. Recent research from Canada, also below, suggests that the cut will reduce the local economy there by £2.5 million per year. In other Scottish cuts, Falkirk are cutting a similar amount to Fife by hollowing out libraries. South of the border, East Sussex are suggesting a deep 25% cut in opening hours for that same, seemingly magic, £500k per year figure. More details from Croydon suggest up to 9 libraries are under threat, although this time the annual budget reduction is a "mere" £217k. On the positive side of the ledger, Wolfson Foundation have given £250k (not annually alas) to beef up some children's library in cash-strapped Birmingham and Derbyshire have opened a new library, boasting a health and wellbeing zone, no less, in Heanor.
In the broader picture, Penguin Random House have announced all of their 23,500 ebooks are available for libraries to lend, as long as they're willing to pay. What will be charged is something I've not had time to check out yet.
The Society of Chief Librarians have put out a £8,500 tender today for someone to work out how to share best practice in public libraries. Hang on, I thought that was me, but if you do have any other ideas (and I'll just mention SharePoint, Facebook groups and/or Moderated Forums here) then do let the SCL know before 20th December.
Finally, I'm very pleased to have Aude Charillon writing about her experience of being a Carnegie UK LibraryLab innovator over the last year. I know that many authorities are already thinking hard about their entries so innovation is still thriving, despite the best that councils like Fife, Falkirk and East Sussex throw against it.
- Birmingham – £250k investment by Wolfson Foundation into five children's libraries.
- Croydon – 9 of 13 libraries under threat. £217k cut p.a.
- Derbyshire – New £892k library opened at Heanor, including health and wellbeing zone.
- East Sussex – Library opening hours to be reduced by around 25%: £500k p.a. cut.
- Falkirk – £432k cut.: 17 FTE posts to be lost, mobile library lost, bookfund cut, events at risk.
- Fife – 16 libraries confirmed to close. £571 cut p.a.
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Vlogging and library data
Dec 6th
Posted by Ian Anstice in Uncategorized
I've just been sent some amazing pictures from Manchester showing crowds and queues for vloggers (video blogging) outside the central library. I included a description of what it is in the previous sentence because I wasn't all that sure myself. But the thing is, vlogging is hugely popular. Vloggers get to the top of the bestseller lists and many people, including librarians, have never heard of them. Mu daughter, nine years old, though, has, and said Joe Sugg, Alfie Dayes, Zoe Sugg, Tanya Burr, Jim Chapman, LD Shadowlady, Smallish Beans and Stampy Longhead without even trying. These people have millions of followers each. Vlogging is a big new media form and libraries run the risk of missing out on it. And, look at the pictures below for the result when libraries do get on board: these are precisely the age of people we often find missing in our libraries. The events were arranged with Waterstones and Hodder, thus showing the need for links with partners too. I understand one thousand tickets were sold online in one hour, with the queue going around the back of the library then looped back past the Midland Hotel and along St Peter's Square. Security even had to be provided by G4S. And if you've never heard of Joe Sugg (2.6 millions followers on Twitter – his signing took four and a half hours) or Tyler Oakley (4.79m) now is perhaps the time to find out more.
The English public libraries taskforce is having a meeting this week on what data is needed on the performance of public libraries. For many years, the only real data available has been the Cipfa figures, which normally arrive over half a year after the period they cover and, crucially, cost a fortune to obtain. I'm writing my own submission to the task force on the subject but if you want me to add anything from yourselves then do let me know, along with any other news, views and comments, via email@example.com.
Google Digital Garage, getting rid of fines + big cuts on the horizon in Bradford, Croydon and Swindon
Dec 2nd
There's a lot in this post. There's two short articles for a start: I have a quick look at the Google Digital Garage at Manchester Central Library and also give a guest spot to a library technology company to speak about the implications of the 3M/Bibliotheca merger.
I'd also like to point out the fascinating experiment in Fife where late fees have been abolished on the same day as a non-profit trust takes over. Library fines have always been an integral part of public library culture but I've noticed a fair few US library services getting rid of them and now it is happening in the UK. The argument is that you gain more in increased usage, better public relations and (counter-intuitively) late books now returned as people had previously been too afraid of the charges. It's a risky and gutsy move, and it may blow up in their faces or just be opening PR, but how great it would be if it not charging made libraries more money. It would certainly make he service more open and inclusive. For more on library fines, fines recovery and the underpinning ideas behind charging and not charging, see this page.
Then there's the, what feels like, standard bits of bad news for English libraries. Bradford, Croydon and Swindon are all announcing pretty big (even for these days) cuts to service, with the ones in Croydon and Swindon being potentially utterly devastating. There's also a smaller, but still significant, cut in Worcestershire. Then there's the next instalment in the ongoing Lincolnshire saga, with the council – after fighting it tooth an and nail for years – finally accepting non-profit trust GLL taking over its remaining council-run libraries and hoping for further cuts (£500k is mentioned) in return. I suspect I'll be covering that county for years more in PLN.
- Angus – Libraries passed to Angusalive, joint leisure/culture/libraries non-profit trust. Late fines abolished.
- Bradford – 19 out of 30 Bradford Libraries will become volunteer or close. (note on figures: report says 25 out of 32 but this includes 2 local studies libraries which I don't count separately and 4 libraries I already have listed as volunteer)
- Croydon – Deep cuts to library service expected, with volunteers and others suggested as alternatives.
- Derby – Considers Open+ remote controlled opening, volunteers and co-locations to cut costs.
- Lincolnshire – GLL to take over surviving 15 council-run libraries. Further £500k cut suggested.
- Swindon – Considering cut of "a least 75%" (£1.5m) to libraries budget, to be closed or passed to volunteers/parish councils.
- Worcestershire – £475k cut 2016/17, with money being gained by hiring out library space to other agencies.
Record Breakers not Record Breaking
Nov 29th
I was sorry to see the reduction in the take up of the Summer Reading Challenge, even though it was officially called a success. This children's side to public libraries is the high spot of the public library year and shows the sector at its best. So why the cut in usage? Well, first thing to say, is that it's just a small reduction (barely over 1% according to one interpretation) which is pretty good going considering the fall in library budgets and opening hours. The actual take-up has reduced more than 1% due to the Republic of Ireland doing its own challenge (fair enough) but also because Lancashire decided to do the same (the "Lancashire Reading Trail" allowed the library promotion to be far more locally focused). The Reading Agency is not taking these defections lightly and is looking at a fresher look for the reading challenge next year – after all, the format hasn't in essence changed for a decade – and the link to Roald Dahl will doubtless help. Let's hope so because the Challenge is one of the few national promotions of library services out there, people love it and libraries can do with more.
- Brighton and Hove – £1 million cut by end 2017/18.
- Clackmannanshire – 34% cut in bookfund over last four years (second biggest decrease in Scotland).
- East Ayrshire – 35% increase in bookfund over last four years (biggest increase in Scotland)
- East Lothian – 33% cut in bookfund over last four years (third biggest decrease in Scotland) but council claims this is due to bolstered bookfund for new library at start of this period.
- Neath and Port Talbot – Skewen and Baglan libraries may close.
- North Lanarkshire – Bookfund decreased by 41% in last four years (biggest decrease in Scotland). Small (£23k) investment in e-books.
- Suffolk – 30% cut ("efficiency savings") since 2012 almost complete. Council has asked for a further 11% cut 2016/18 (£700k).
- Worcestershire – Bromsgrove Library reopens in co-located building: £6.9m jointly between county and borough council.
- Colouring book for adults – Book created by public library.
- Story pods – small library opens up from closed box shape.
- Teen area managed by teenagers
Budget cuts will continue, but ACE and the Task Force protected
Nov 26th
The Spending Review has now come and gone and it's no worse than expected, but little better. The settlement for local councils will be decided nearer Christmas and we'll see what happens. Expect another five years of restructures, cuts and, hopefully, innovation, in order to meet the punishing targets certain to be set.
It's at least good news that ACE have received a protected settlement. While it is often a bit odd to report on great new theatrical experiences or animatronic sculpture in the same library service as is at the same moment closing libraries, it would be churlish to not appreciate the good things that they do. Similarly, the news that the Task Force, now celebrating six months on the job, will have funding for another four more years if it needs it is also good news. While not being as quick about things as some have liked, and – obviously – not going to in any way criticise the government, they have achieved a few things in the last few months and I earnestly hope for more to come.
Whatever happens, there is certainly going to be a lot more public libraries news.
- Cardiff – Rumney Library closed, moves into Partnership Hub, staffed by volunteers.
- Isle of Man – Henry Bloom Noble Library moves into old Top Shop, changes opening hours.
Testing times
Nov 24th
So the day is here. The Spending Review will give us an idea of exactly how much more councils will have to cut from their budgets. At time of publishing this post, guesswork from various sources suggest that it will be around one quarter but we don't really know yet. Assuming this does not transpire to be far off the mark, these will represent the deepest peacetime cuts to councils in history, especially after taking into accounts the cuts that have already happened. This will affect some councils more than others but it will present real difficulties for many, with the temptation being to remove spending from things like libraries.
Let's be clear that there's no easy options here. Those who claim that there are yet more "savings" to be made from efficiency are deluding themselves, if not others. This time, even in those authorities whose front line services have been protected before, it's going to be very hard not to be noticeable. The test for the sector is how we respond to this. The test for CILIP and campaigners will be how they mobilise support for libraries. The test for senior managers will be to explore every avenue to minimise the impact and to remain human and sane while they go about the tough job, which none of them want, of cutting services. The test for other public library staff will be how to be professional, to keep morale and to soldier on. The test for the country will be how people respond to the cuts and, ultimately, how local public library services survive. So, testing times. Keep tuned to see how well the country passes.
- Story walls – Projecting images showing stories on large surfaces outside the library.
Scotland … Edinburgh … and Lambeth?
Nov 22nd
I missed doing a blog post last week because I had the pleasure of attending the CILIPS Autumn Gathering in Glasgow. My presentation was on lessons learnt while doing Public Libraries News so if you want to learn how it started, why I do it and exactly where I fit in the time then I'd recommend seeing the slideshow here. They were all a lovely bunch of people, with lots of great things happening (not least in the school libraries) and it's quite a notably different political climate up there, with both a national library strategy and – whisper it in awe – public library standards.
I'm therefore sorry to see that Edinburgh libraries are being slated for budget cuts. I went up there earlier this year and was impressed by the quality of their libraries, their staff and their achievements in innovation. Due to fewer budget reductions there, Scotland may be at the stage English libraries were at four or five years ago. One hopes that the nation will do better than their southern colleagues: the national government there is obviously far more keen on public services and, possibly due to the smaller size of the country, things seem far more close knit to me. In addition, Scotland has a national library strategy and public library standards. We'll see very soon if those count for anything when the knife is out.
The council dominating the English stories since the last post is Lambeth, with a strike and particularly raucous council meeting. It's worth noting that one of the libraries – which is about to be turned into a gym, with some bookshelves – was visited by Ed Vaizey just last year as it was part of the Libraries Change Lives Awards. This was due to how accessible it had been made for blind and visually impaired customers. All that exercise equipment is likely to mess that up a bit. One comment in the article, not spoken by Mr Vaizey, but now blaring out with massive tragic irony is "I hope that Lambeth libraries become like a beacon for library authorities across the country.".
- Edinburgh – Budget review.
- Lambeth – Upper Norwood Library Trust appeal for £80k funds to address shortfall due to cuts from Croydon and Lambeth.
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Lancashire go for the record: 40 branches may be lost
Nov 17th
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Good news and some quite stupendous bad news today. The good news comes in the form of two initiatives, both with the Reading Agency and SCL support: the BBC is launching a big reading promotion next year and also money has been obtained to see about extending the reading challenge idea to older people. The bad news is, well, pretty bad and I had to check my figures to see if it was right: Lancashire are threatening to close (or more likely pass to volunteers, parish councils or anyone else who would be interested) no less than forty branches. I've looked at the lists and I think that's the biggest number ever put in threat at any single time, although North Yorkshire has over the course of the last few years, probably divested itself of more, especially if one includes mobiles.
- Denbighshire – Rhyl Library co-located with One Stop Shop.
- Essex – Adult fiction/non-fiction at £784k (2014/15) with children fiction/non-fiction at £511k (increased from £258k previous year). Number of FTE staff down from 355.8 in 2012-13 to 324.8 in 2014-15. 1 mobile lost (from 11 down to 10 serving 579 stops) (Source: FOI request).
- Greenwich – Mobile library may close, with users being offered tablet PCs instead.
- Lancashire – 40 libraries under threat.
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Retired from his occupation as Grand Nagus, Zek enjoyed this Ferengi wine while he decided where he'd take his vacation. In the following conversation with Quark, Zek died. (DS9: "The Nagus")
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The Dark Eye (video game)
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|The Dark Eye
The game's cover art and distinctive character designs were done by artist Bruce Heavin.
|Atari Games, GT Interactive Software
|WEA Visual Entertainment
|Russell Lees
|Rebekah Behrendt
|Russell Lees
|Thomas Dolby
|Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
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|First-person adventure, psychological horror
The Dark Eye is a 1995 first-person psychological horror adventure game developed by Inscape for Windows and Mac.[1] Upon its release the game attracted little attention from either critics or consumers, though it has received some attention since and, arguably, cult status.
The game features combined 3D graphics, stop motion animation and video segments. With its unconventional interface, storyline, and characters, the game's peculiarity became its selling point. The characters are largely lifelike in appearance except for their clay-modeled faces, which are often distorted or feature grotesquely exaggerated features. This near-realism, sometimes referred to as the uncanny valley, contributes to the game's ambience of unease and anxiety.
The character animation is stop-motion. Inscape did the art design of the puppets (artist Bruce Heavin) and had a Hollywood house actually make them. Inscape then hired two stop-motion animators and Russell Lees spent many, many hours in a hot, dark warehouse directing the animations. The working hours were from 7 am to 7 pm for about a month. They created computer-generated screenshots of the environments and shot against blue-screen, and they had a director of photography light them to match the environment.
Also notable was the use of author William S. Burroughs as a voice actor: Burroughs provided not only the voice for the character of Edwin, but also voiceovers for two slide-show sequences illustrating the short story "The Masque of the Red Death" and the poem "Annabel Lee". Another story, "The Premature Burial", can be found while reading the newspaper during "The Tell-Tale Heart", and the poem "To Helen" can be read while playing the victim in "Berenice".
Thomas Dolby composed the game's music.
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Structurally, the game is a point-and-click adventure fueled by the macabre stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The player can experience three of the stories ("The Cask of Amontillado", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "Berenice") from the perspectives of both murderer and victim.
The game presents no choices to make, no life-or-death decisions, and no points; similar to other first-person adventures, like Myst, the game waits for the player to find the next hotspot or location, at which point another video will play to advance the plot. During the portions that are direct interpretations of Poe's stories, the player is constrained to follow the actions of the stories' characters. The player can carry only one item at a time. Much of the animation in The Dark Eye consists of QuickTime movies, either full-screen or smaller looping segments, framed by a static background.
The plot principally revolves around "performances" and recitations of Poe's stories, with a new plotline used as a framing device. The game is divided into a "realistic" mode in which the framing plot occurs and a "nightmarish" mode in which Poe's stories are reenacted or narrated.
The game does not specify the year in which it is set, but based on clothing and technology it appears to be in the late 1800s. The player character, whose name is never divulged, is visiting his uncle Edwin. The player first meets Edwin's assistant and then Edwin himself. He later meets Henry, the protagonist's brother, a young businessman who desires the hand of Elise, in marriage. Your character then starts to take ill effects from the paint thinner Edwin was using while painting, and the player character passes out and has a nightmarish dream.
After the protagonist wakes, Henry relates his desperate situation: Edwin deeply disapproves of his love for Elise. Another nightmare follows, after which the protagonist encounters Elise, who asks her to give Henry a note. After another nightmare, the player learns that Elise has taken ill. The protagonist sees Henry and gives him Elise's note, then follows him to find that Elise has died. Edwin explains that the ground is too marshy for a proper burial, so Henry, Edwin, and Edwin's Assistant take her body into the basement of the house. Henry requests that a lantern be left nearby in case she revives.
Edwin takes the player aside and states that Henry is mentally unstable. Edwin forges a note from Elise asking Henry meet her on the cliff outside of the house. The protagonist hands it to Henry, who then dashes out of the house. As Henry stands on the cliff, yelling for Elise, an enormous wave hits him. Watching from afar, the player can see that he is unharmed, although Edwin's assistant approaches Henry and starts a scuffle. In the course of the fight, the assistant shoves Henry off the cliff and into the sea.
Edwin lays the blame for all these events upon the player character, causing him to spiral down into a fit of insanity. Upon returning to reality, the protagonist discovers that Elise, still alive, has broken out of her coffin and gouged out her own eyes. This gruesome sight destroys the protagonist's sanity, and the game ends.
- ^ Lombreglia, Ralph (June 5, 1997). "What Happened to Multimedia?". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- Adventure Classic Gaming feature (2008)
- CoreGamers article and interview with creator Russell Lees (2008)
- Interview with creator Russell Lees on general development process (2009)


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