Thanks to Tim Mitchell Andy Ellis -Monk - so how do you want me to do this R? -Bishop - cat owl with crossbow being climbed by a woman with her hand in a fish's mouth and a flying crocodile please -Monk - All over it boss. No stress

It is the book birthday of children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are' This was published #OTD in 1963. It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…

It is the book birthday of children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are' This was published #OTD in 1963. It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

Oh, to be a Fly... In a Choirbook? #ThingsInBooks

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Considering going no more a-roving with fair maids? Has roving been your ruin? Call the Roving Advice Line NOW for a free quote.

If you can’t decide which way to go, maybe just sit down

Don’t mind me… I’ll just be dreaming about the pink Pyrex I didn’t buy and am now regretting. #midCentury #vintage #retro

Just stop it M&S:

#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?

fun fact: Halloween in the north of England used to be known as nut-crack night. people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire. nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.

The work of May Morris (1862-1938) influential English embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor who supported and taught fellow female artists #WomensArt#WomensArt

Misread a post about “National Medical Librarians Month” as “National Mediocre Librarians Month,” was so excited to finally be celebrated

🐦Not sure what the bird intends to do with the funds… but I am here for it Also did the pigeon do the crochet? so many questions. #Vinted #Pigeon #Bird #PigeonPounds

And now for something completely different. 3rd November 1310 was the earliest use of the F-word. #MedievalSky #Medieval www.medievalists.net/2023/08/earl...

Tutting; eye rolling; pointed sighing; sarcasm; muttering passive aggressive comments to yourself; and a Paddington Bear hard stare.

Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and which—after initial banishment—reappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.

Busy woman, Miss Todd.

Did you know that if you chant “add alt text” three times in the mirror, a social media manager appears behind you with a cat meme!

I think Vinted is trolling me:

Remember, the clocks go back one hour tonight, except for reform voters as you’re already living in late 1930s Germany.

On my way to #York for a work thing. Times amended since I bought my train ticket & I have over an hour to kill. Would like #coffee & somewhere to sit with a table before 9am. Does bluesky/ #skybrarian have any independent suggestions?

📄 Being a #Lesbian #Librarian, Collection Development in Lesbian Librarianship, and #Archives as Lesbian spaces: academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcont... #OpenAccess #Glam #Library

These are arrows of direction on a stairwell I rarely use in the office…. but without spex, i had thought for a moment a raptor had entered the building. 🦖

#Monday #GirlMoss #GirlBoss. 🎨 @awokenshit on insta.

Hmm. Archive collection? But then you wouldn’t date stamp it?? Hmm unless it’s part of a reading room collection??

And this is how #folklore starts... #wolfenoot #custom #tradition #DogsOfBlueSky

‘The librarians’ is on iPlayer… this is not a drill!!! 📺📚🎉

Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum) I love its expression.

Well played Manchester libraries 👏 (For sale in central library if anyone wants one) #Skybrarian #LibrarySky #Library📚

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

Autumn is well and truly here:

Just occurred to me that “stay tuned“ is one of those phrases we’ll have to explain to kids, because while the semantic meaning stays, the literal meaning is lost to them.

Still on a sugar high from this last night. It’s how I would like all my hot drinks from now on; topped with a brownie. Hurrah for Hot Chocolate season!

One from the lettering archives ✨

If I get a set of matching notebooks with a really good pen then I will definitely do a better job of both planning and carrying through on projects. That's obvious.

Perhaps a day late for #UKFungusDay, but enjoy this picture of fungus growing out of the window frame in my local 🍺

Prezzie from a friend: #GlutenFree #PinBadge

Jan Pieńkowski Sticky Seals for Gallery Five, London 1970s #Caturday

I’m liking this, perhaps also: ‘I don’t give a JISC’ ‘For REFs sake’

My desk when cataloguing: #Skybrarian #LibrarySky #Library

My dog has the right idea about WFH:

Unpopular opinion from a librarian,, but I love a tatty paperback- shows it’s been loved and read. I read in the bath too. #SorryNotSorry

In 1906, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) moved from Manchester to London, and specifically to Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence’s apartment at Clement’s Inn, find out more from @lse.library curator blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

The two tests of cycling infrastructure should be 1 - would this be okay for a 12 year old child on their own? AND 2 - would this be okay for lone woman at night? If the answer to either of these is NO then it's not adequate.

Concrete and Cranes, 2019, painting by Manchester artist Geoffrey Key (b.1941). #NorthernArt