I volunteered to give feedback on an excellent conference! Highlighting how thankful I am that the conference is open now to all library staff (not just heads of service) And how inspiring it has been hearing about library projects & future planning! #LLConf25 #LondonLibraries

Really looking forward to the London Libraries Conference today! A day of hearing about all the amazing things happening in libraries across the city, as well as looking how to approach future trends & challenges! Friday is a good day of knowledge exchange & networking ✨️📚🖤

Watching Race Across The World thinking, "Wow, I'd be so good at this.... as long as my teammate allowed me to be in absolute control of all travel/logistical decisions." 😅 Altho, my inability to try unknown foods means I might just starve before the finish line heh

Go so excited when I saw the sign mentioned a Library, but looked everywhere and could not see :( Best I could find was a closed book store. Waiting for final flight. Heydar Aliyev International Airport to Gatwick :)

Didn't get too much time to explore The Burabay State National Nature Park, but what I did see was lovely, I can imagine spending a whole weekend here hiking! It was a perfect ending to my week in Kazakhstan! Now, to start the trek back to London :)

What a privilege to attend #WLIC2025 in Astana Kazakhstan! My first #IFLA event, too, thanks to the Emerging Leaders Grant. @ifla.org Quick summary on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/imogen...

Welcome, and now goodbye! What an incredible first #WLIC the sheer global scale of different insights yet so much togetherness! I feel confident that the LIS world can take on our future challenges ✨️📚🖤 #WLIC2025 #IFLA & Thank you @ifla.org for making this happen with the Emerging Leaders Grant.

As part of the IFLA Emerging Leaders Grant we were asked to give a lighting (1min) talk on what our definition of leadership is. To not only be able to attend an international conference, but also to share my view on stage was really pretty special ✨️📚🖤 #WLIC2025 #IFLA #EmergingLeaders @ifla.org

Thammasat University Library, Bangkok, Thailand “From Waste to Wealth: Green Library through Circular Economy” #GreenLibraries award win! So inspiring! They are doing so much from small to grand, showing how many avenues to implement in my own library services @ifla.org www.ifla.org/news/10th-if...

Afternoon starts off... bold (hehe) #WLIC2025 #IFLA

Say it LOUDER Leadership happens at every level & every stage - and that means all staff deserve access to support, knowledge, training to grow their own leadership style, which in turns breeds more leaders (libraries sure love circular economies 🙃) #WLIC2025 #IFLA

Empower displaced voices. Resisting culture erasure. English submission link for the Qatar National Library Project #WLIC2025 #IFLA qnl.librariesshare.com/engkeystopal...

Curious about how the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2025 (#WLIC2025) is unfolding in Astana, Kazakhstan? We’ve got you covered with our daily highlights 👉 Day 1 Highlights 2025.ifla.org/day-one-high... 👉 Day 2 Highlights 2025.ifla.org/day-two-high... Stay tuned for more!

So many sessions to choose from this morning, decided on a topic I've done nothing on before,and might give me some ideas for a bid I'm working on :) #WLIC2025 #IFLA

Australia, Greece & it turns out Kazakhstan, have mozzies that adore the taste of me ! Being eaten alive ! Shame on me for forgetting repellent/thinking they wouldn't bite through my tights >.<

Important afternoon session on information integrity, esp in the face of the rise of mis/dis information. #WLIC2025 @ifla.org #IFLA

Different Libraries coming together to meet their community needs! @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social giving the incredible example of #TheHive #Worcester of university & public. During #WLIC2025 @ifla.org President's session. Was so excited to visit The Hive myself in 2022 📚✨️🖤

Starting Day 3 with the President's session!! ✨️📚🖤 #WLIC2025 #IFLA @ifla.org

Oh, Hi #IFLA #WLIC2025 @ifla.org

"Green stopped being just a colour and becomes a verb" (paraphrasing) from the video of China, Shenzhen: Shenzhen Yantian Library, “The Growth Library: Reading Without Borders,Growth With Sustainability” #ILFA #GreenLibraries Award #WLIC2025 @ifla.org

EXCITED (& inspired) 🌿📚🌎 #IFLA #WLIC2025 #GreenLibraries @ifla.org

Kicking off #WLIC2025 day 2 #GreenLibraries @ifla.org

WLIC Day 2 is Green Libraries day, so you know I had to dress the part ✨️📚🌿 #WLIC2025 #GreenLibraries

Flash Mob in Astana !! Reading from our favourite books , anytime, anywhere is always a good time to enjoy a book ✨️📚🖤 @ifla.org #WLIC2025

Session Storytime: Sharing Reading Experiences Together. Brought my favourite book (got another librarian to read it out) - In Search of the Giant Arctic Jellyfish by @chloesavage.bsky.social ✨️📚🖤🪼 #WLIC2025 @ifla.org

Oryntai Oshanova (Head of the UNESCO Chair of Journalism and Communication at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty) talking about media literacy in Kazakhstan a very important topic in UK so privileged to get an insight from another country! #WLIC2025 @ifla.org

Kicking off #WLIC2025 with an Emerging Leaders welcome! Being surrounded by so many inspiring people across the globe!! So excited for this week ✨️📚🖤 @ifla.org www.ifla.org/news/meet-ou...

So #WLIC2025 starts tonight (for me) with the UK Caucus! ✨️📚🖤 @ifla.org @cilip.bsky.social

I had middle seat Lady let me have her window seat And we struck up convo and then aisle lady joined in And then i slept cos i always sleep on planes and they chatted the whole flight And it was so wholesome 🥰 Antalya airport is sooo humid tho >.< Got like a 4.5hr wait til flight to Astana ! #WLIC25

That's flights checked in! Flying to Kazakhstan on Saturday!! Cos on Monday #WLIC2025 begins!!! Super excited!! Library work truly is the best kinda work ✨️📚🖤 Connecting the world through access to information & allowing information Professionals to connect around the world @ifla.org

So I'm sitting in the GP waiting room (need travel vax) reading The First Year by Matt Goodfellow so of course I'm bawling my eyes out so now I gotta explain to the GP why I'm showing up in tears for a damn tetanus shot 😅 Books well good, though! #currentlyreading

In (slightly) more interesting news, tonight's entertainment shall be provided by Natural History Museum Space Night 🌌✨️👽 www.nhm.ac.uk/events/space...

I think Spearmint is my favourite mint But I'm not sure if that's just cos it's got the word spear in it Thought sponsored by the extra spearmint gum I just brought 😋🙃

Aaww man :( When I was abt 14 a family friend gave me a phone that had Crazy Train as the ring tone, and I was all 🤯 what is this vibe !? Like many metal heads, Ozzy holds a special place in our hearts for what he created & what he influenced. news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

Already reserved the books ! Looking forward to reading them and discussing them with other library workers ! ✨️📚🖤

I got my first tattoos in 2009 (first one on my 18th Bday!) But I'd say it's been a good 7 odd years that my right arm (& leg) have been very visibly tattooed. Yet every time I go to HobbyCraft, the cashiers compliment my tattoos & I get surprised they can see any 😅🙃

In one month's time, @ifla.org World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) kicks off in Astana, Kazakhstan! I am thrilled to say I will be in attendance thanks to IFLA's Emerging Leaders Grant!! (& thanks to my GLL Managers for their support with the application!!) #WLIC2025 2025.ifla.org

Such a wonderful event! @poetrybyheart.bsky.social finals and somewhere as magical as The Globe !! Definitely witnessed some future poets & performers in the making! ✨️📚🖤 & great to see colleagues from Bromley, Greenwich & Wandsworth Libs as well as some GLL Lit Foundation authors

AI-Literature workforce. In order to use AI responsibly and ethical we need to understand it. #CILIPConf25 @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social

✨️📚🖤 Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 ! So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people! @cilip.bsky.social

An absolute honour to hear Michael Rosen speak ! Thank you #CILIPConf25 @cilip.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Day 2 ! Super important start with Data Literacy & Consent ! #CILIPConf25 @cilip.bsky.social

What a beautiful ode to the library & Information Profession! Thank you Rishi @betarish.bsky.social for creating this for us! Thank you @jocornish.bsky.social for arranging this And thank you library & information Professionals for being so wonderful ✨️📚🖤 @cilip.bsky.social #CILIPConf25

First session of the day! Thrown right in the deep end! But it is very important to try and get a better understanding of AI & Copyright ! #CILIPConf25 @cilip.bsky.social

NEXT WEEK! #CILIPConf25 ! Really excited to be able to attend thanks to support from @cilip.bsky.social 's UKeiG (and work for encouraging), so if you see me please come say hi! (hair colour currently an amalgamation of 💙💜💚🩷🧡😅)

En route to meet a friend, & the bus has gone past a "carnegie street" and now "story street" :D (first time using this bus route!) And this, on the day off the #carnegies2025 award ceremony! The life of a librarian goes beyond the walls of a library ✨️📚🖤

The teen book I'm currently reading (A Flash of Neon by Sophie Cameron) just called Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day , "the OLD punk pop" and like I didn't need to be attacked on a Monday morning like that 😅😭

Happy Friday 13th in Pride ✨️🌈 Now, I'm normally a vans girlie, but I couldn't resist the chance to customise the converse pride collection! Can't wait to wear them out at some library pride events next week :)

Visited Københavns Hovedbibliotek (Copenhagen Central Public Library) Loved the different genre graphics, and almost every wall had a painting on it! Copenhagen has 18 more public libraries in various sizes, but didn't have time to visit others this trip. #LoveLibraries ✨️📚🖤

Just realised the Aquarium closes at 9pm tonight So, of course, I'm heading there now 🦈💙🪼 Which, also means, tomorrow I can now head to Malmo and check out a new city before flying back to London in the evening :)