Our website has become very popular lately and our server has occasionally had some difficulty in keeping up. You may have seen an error recently when trying to login to the site for example.

In an effort to smooth things out I will be undertaking some early spring cleaning. In particular looking at our database server and deleting things that are not needed.

At Libraries Interact we like to be as inclusive as possible and therefore encourage any librarians who are interested to contribute. More details of how to contribute are available on our Contributing page.

A side effect of this open contribution policy is that we have a large number user accounts stored in our database that have never been used. As part of the spring cleaning I’m deleting any user account that does not have a post, or comment, associated with it. Sadly many of them are created by what appears to be “bots”.

If you try to login and find your account has been deleted, I sincerely apologise and invite you to create an account again. However, please remember that accounts are only needed to contribute, they are not necessary if you’d just like to comment.

If you do notice anything odd happening with our website, please let us know. Taking a screen capture of your browser at the time of the error is always very welcome.