Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Former Library and Mechanics Institute, Devonport Grade II, A, Norman, 1843-44 Read more: bit.ly/3P47tkd Photo: The Victorian Society #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #SouthWest #Devon #Plymouth #Devonport

Webinar–The Library of Saint Augustine: Between History and Legend [Institute of English Studies | School of Advanced Study University of London] This looks to be a fascinating lecture!: "Over this longue durée, the goal is to shed light on the representations—and, at times, the fantasies—that the…

Join us online for our next seminar on Tuesday 5 May 5.30pm BST. Jérémy Delmulle’s topic is The Library of Saint Augustine: Between History and Legend. All welcome. Information & booking: bit.ly/LibraryOfSai.... Image: The Trustees of the British Museum: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as it was, and as they hoped it would become If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

"Librarians We Have Lost," a crowdsourced initiative from ALA's Library History Round Table, seeks to honor the memory, service, and professional contributions of librarians, educators, and library workers over the past 50 years. Read more and learn how you can add a tribute: https://bit.ly/4uPGc4Y

Join us tracing the legend surrounding the supposed miraculous survival of the library of Hippo to explore the representations — and, at times, the fantasies — that the memory of a lost library can inspire ✨🧚 ⏰ 5 May 2026 📍 Online via Zoom The event is free to attend & open to all BOOK NOW 👇

Today has been a big day at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social - we've just opened the final* building in our big capital project, and it was a big one: a brick-by-brick relocation of Woodside Library from Dudley, set in the glamorous world of 1963. www.expressandstar.com/news/nostalg...

Library Catalogues and / as Research Data: the hidden voices of early printed books in the John Rylands Free and online via Teams. Booking essential via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylands-research-institute-and-library-17289731815

Library book returned more than 60 years late

We’re delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973 by P. R. Harris is now digitised and freely available to all interested in the history of the Museum and librarianship. Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vvx

Join online or in person on Tues 3 March 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Emmeline Ledgerwood's topic is The National Lending Library for Science & Technology & its collection of Russian scientific literature in Cold War Britain: bit.ly/NationalLend.... Image: British Library Corporate Archive

Our next talk! Francesca Galligan on 'Sir Christopher Hatton and his books: reconstructing an Elizabethan library.' How and why do we reconstruct historic libraries? Thurs 12th February, 5:15 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford (+ online via Zoom - register [email protected])

Happy New Year! For this month’s Council’s Choice, Julia King highlights the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain database, which aims to list every manuscript and printed book associated with an institutional library during the Middle Ages: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and New Year, from all at the History of Libraries Research Seminar. Image: Brixton Library libraries.lambeth.gov.uk/-/brixton-li...

Join us in London on 5 Dec 2025 for CERL’s Seminar at Guildhall Library (guildhalllibrary.bsky.social)! Explore how Europe’s founding library collections continue to shape research today. With support from @abararebooks.bsky.social! Register: [email protected] Livestream coming soon!

All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 2 December, 5.30pm GMT @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Tracy Cosgriff’s digital humanities topic is 'Reading in a Renaissance Pope’s Library: The Bibliotheca Iulia Instaurata'. More info at: bit.ly/RenaissanceP.... Image: Vatican Museums

All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tues 4 November, 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Jason McElligott's topic is 'Books for Old Soldiers. The Pensioners' Library at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1833-1929'. Info: bit.ly/BooksForOldS.... Image: heritageireland.ie/places-to-vi...

Did you know the @rcphysicians.bsky.social lost nearly its entire library in the Great Fire of London? Storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social has created a fabulous story all about the library, join us Mon 27 Oct to discover more! Book👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/events #BodyOfKnowledge

Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.) lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...

Manchester celebrating public libraries - 175 years since the Public Library Act

New merch alert! 🛍️🎉 Celebrate Guildhall Library's 600th anniversary with our new tote bag and postcard. Tote bag - £5 Postcard - 40p Both are ready for purchase at the Library.

All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 7 October, 5.30pm. Sophie Coulombeau will be discussing classicist, author, critic, educator, clergyman & thief Charles Burney (1757-1817). More info here: bit.ly/LibrariesAnd... @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social

The Reading Room at Cambridge University Library in 1934 and 2025. Which era do you prefer? #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #OldPhotos Images: 1. Photograph of the Reading Room in 1934 (Cam.bb.934.7) 2. Photograph of the Reading Room taken in 2025

Please share! Our new FREE exhibition celebrating 600 years since the founding of Guildhall Library is up! Opening Monday! It'll be open Mondays-Thursdays 10-4 as well as Saturday 20th for Open House! Includes the history of the original library, medieval manuscripts and early printed books!

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