Our final speaker is Dr Anna-Maria Sichani from School of Advanced Study, University of London bringing us full circle with her presentation 'Operationalising responsible AI in cultural heritage: policies, practices and opportunities' #RBSCG25

Carly Richardson and Jennie-Claire Crate from @jisc.bsky.social are now joining us to talk about enhancing discoverability and access for special collections and the role of Jisc’s Archives Hub and Library Hub in metadata transformation and aggregation. #RBSCG25

Next up is Christine Megowan from the University of Edinburgh and Katie Birkwood from the Royal College of Physicians, London with their talk 'Interacting with and influencing international standards: Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging and others'

So glad that I'm able to attend one day of #RBSCG25 to learn more about AI and cataloguing today. It's an important fixture in the Rare Books calendar! @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social

Welcome back for Day 3 of #RBSCG25 which is all about AI and metadata transformation 🤖 Kicking us off are Amelie Roper and Suzanne Paul from the University of Cambridge who are introducing us to the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)

You know the drill: 🕑 2.00pm today 💻 Online via Teams 📚 Day Three of #RBSCG25 We have to say, we've been absolutely loving all of the talks so far, and can't wait for the final four today!

Thank to all of today's speakers; you've certainly generated a lot of conversations with your talks! We're looking forward to continuing those conversations both at Day Three of the conference (from 2.00pm tomorrow) and in the meantime! #RBSCG25

Our final talk of today will be from Núria Ferran Ferrer and Miquel Centelles Velilla from @ub.edu on: HerStory-NeSyAI: Designing Inclusive Metadata with Hybrid AI for Discoverability and Epistemic Justice. #RBSCG25

Harriet Hale and Tabitha Tuckett from @uclspeccoll.bsky.social are up next, with the wonderfully-titled 'Hitting the MARC: cataloguing standards and the challenge of representation'. We all love a pun! #RBSCG25

Next up, Dan Sheehy of @natlibscot.bsky.social will tell us about 'Sensitivity in literary archives: making assessments and managing access'. #RBSCG25

First up, Karen Pierce and Vicky Stallard of @cardiffunilib.bsky.social will tell us about their efforts to make their library catalogue anti-racist and inclusive. #RBSCG25

Our Vice Chair, Sarah Cusk, of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk, welcomes us to another day of 'interesting and inspirational' talks! Remember to post any questions in the Teams chat for Sarah to pose them to our speakers. #RBSCG25

Everyone ready? Remember, it's the same Teams link as yesterday! #RBSCG25

Set your timepieces: #RBSCG25 will be back for Day Two at 2.00pm today, with four talks on the topic of 'Inclusive Cataloguing'. We can't wait!

A good question from Christine! If anyone is in this situation, please email our Conference Coordinator, Richard, at [email protected] #RBSCG25

What a brilliant series of talks to kick off Day One of #RBSCG25! Thank you so much to all of our wonderful speakers; we’ll be back at 2.00pm tomorrow for Day Two and we can’t wait!

For the final talk of today, @universityofleeds.bsky.social’s Alison Hazelaar, Kim Taylor and Trevor Hough will speak on ‘Embracing new approaches to enhance discoverability and use of rare print materials at the University of Leeds’. #RBSCG25

Next up, Ross Melvin from @soaslibrary.bsky.social on ‘Transforming the SOAS manuscript metadata: approaches to complex catalogue data’. #RBSCG25

Ben Cornish and Grace Touzel from the @nhm-london.bsky.social are up first, discussing their approach to prioritising metadata creation for rare books in their collection.

#RBSCG25 is underway with a welcome from our Chair @tanyakirk.bsky.social!

#RBSCG25 starts today at 2.00pm! Attendees should have received a delegate pack to the email address you used to register. We're here if you have any questions, and look forward to seeing you online this afternoon!

🧵(1) Exciting news regarding the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) project, which photographed more than 9,000 manuscripts in Ethiopia from 1973 to 1994 and is the largest repository for scholarly access to texts in Geʻez. hmml.org/collections/...

We are delighted to announce that ✨booking is open✨ for #RBSCG25, the 2025 CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group conference. Theme: Systems, Standards and the Discoverability of Special Collections Dates: 3-5 September, afternoons Place: Online rbscgconference2025.eventbrite.com

In this Tea with Alice, Oliver Darkshire talks antiquarian bookselling, snobbery, and the pros and cons of being categorised on a specialty shelf. 🎧https://pod.link/789603540/ 🌳https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire 🎩https://www.patreon.com/AliceFraser/

For centuries, bats in Portugal’s Joanina Library have protected 60,000 rare books by feasting on insects nightly—no pesticides needed. Staff cover antique tables to guard against droppings and clean up each morning It’s preservation by nature’s own night shift www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/these...

Have you visited our Hooked: 500 Years of Addiction exhibition yet? Combining rare books, historical objects, artworks, interviews and digital interactives, the exhibition explores the meaning of addiction through history. www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...

This #MedievalMonday please enjoy this angry dragon (in honour of all the parents/carers who've been to see or are planning on seeing #HowToTrainYourDragon). This one looks especially unruly. You can explore the #KennicottBible in full on Digital Bodleian: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8c26...

📚 Join the Bodleian Conservation Team as a Book Repair Technician! 📚 We’re seeking a Book Repair Technician to help preserve our collections. Working under the guidance of the Book Conservator, you’ll master the skills and techniques of modern book repair. Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

One incunable, binding waste from two different MSS. To the left a bifolium from a commentary on the Pauline epistles, right a leaf from a Summa confessorum. 🕵️ (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Inc. 220) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

Exhibition: Medieval Love Debate at Longleat @longleatofficial.bsky.social 29th March - 5th July, in person & online This exhibition tells the story of a late 15th century manuscript (MS 258) owned by William Thynne, uncle of Sir John Thynne, who built Longleat.

Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social, in partnership with the Friends of Senate House Library, invites applications for a Visiting Research Fellowship. In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

The Bodleian's newest exhibition 'Treasured' includes some of our Bodleian's greatest treasures. Which are you most excited to see?

Thank you so much to everyone who attended our Introduction to Special Collections Acquisitions event with @bibsoc.bsky.social on Wednesday afternoon; we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

We're getting ever closer to this very exciting exhibition at Bath Guildhall, of treasures from the Bath Record Office collection! More information available here: www.batharchives.co.uk/news/remarka...

This survey is open until the end of June, so please do take the time to fill it out if you work with medieval manuscripts. We know the researcher will really appreciate your time ❤️

Reminder that our Introduction to Special Collections Acquisitions event is this afternoon at 3.30pm. Everyone who signed up should have received a link to the web via email yesterday. We hope you enjoy the event - we can't wait!

Exeter College, Oxford @exeter.ox.ac.uk has a vacancy for a part-time Early Printed Books Cataloguer to undertake project work during a 56-week contract. Application deadline: Midday, Friday 27th June. www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ea...

@uclspeccoll.bsky.social have a great event coming up on 3rd June! You'll get to see a screening of student short films inspired by UCL Special Collections items, as well as a special display of the items which inspired the films! Free of charge, but booking is required, via tinyurl.com/uclscfilm

The play was too long so we shortened it. Crossings out to an Italian translation of Thomas Corneille, Bologna 1699.

Upcoming event: 📚 Understanding Bookbindings: an immersive two-day seminar 🏫 College Hall, Hereford & Hereford Cathedral 📅 23rd - 24th June 2025 💰 £360 per person Further information and booking via the link below: www.herefordcathedral.org/event/unders...

Are you a researcher, archivist, curator, student or librarian who wants to develop their skills with reading early modern English handwriting? ✒️ Look no further than our 2-week, online short course, with bursaries available. Next running 16-27 June: imemsdurhamlearn.com/early-modern... 💻

Do you work with medieval manuscripts? Then please consider completing this questionnaire on the impact of cataloguing on the discoverability and usage of medieval manuscripts: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Applications are currently open for the role of Special Collections Librarian at Queens' College Cambridge. Deadline: Thursday 13th June 2025. www.queens.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

Bangor University's sweeping cuts in funding will particularly affect their Archives and Special Collections. Please consider signing this petition in support of the Archives and Special Collections, by 11th June.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bees, for today is their special day! 🐝 This engraved frontispiece by Thomas Loveday is from ‘Melisselogia: Or, the Female Monarchy…’, a book about bees by John Thorley, published in 1744. 📷 Reserve 595.799 THO #WorldBeeDay #BeeDay #RareBooks

We love where we work, and every so often we like to show off our most cherished spots to you, our followers. Today, take a look at Rare Book and Special Collections Division Chief Stephanie Stillo's favorite part of the Library of Congress.

We are so excited to invite you to our ✨ upcoming event ✨, which we're hosting with @bibsoc.bsky.social: 📚 Introduction to Special Collections Acquisitions 📅 Wednesday, June 4 🕙 3:30 - 5:15pm www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...

Our friends @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social have extended their Call for Papers until this Friday 24th May for their online conference (3-5 Sept 2025). The theme is #Standards, #Systems & the #Discoverability of #SpecialCollections. Full details below. #conference #rarebooks #metadata #libraries

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1663 First Edition of "Discours politiques des rois" (Political Discourse of Kings) by French novelist, dramatist & poet Georges de Scudéry who died #OnThisDay 1667. This is collection of 20 speeches (from imagination of the author) by historical figures…/👇

If you like manuscripts, there's lots of interesting stuff in this new open access volume. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...