Currently in the "consuming my body weight in tea and biscuits" stage of exhibition preparation.

Someone mentioned the possibility of processing a particular book in a service that uses candles and due to the number of people there has quite narrow aisles for processing. I involuntarily blanched and basically shouted "but the candles!" without thinking. A librarian's instinct, I hope.

6 year old asked to make me a cup of tea this morning.❤️☕️ #TeaUp

• community collections and access • the politics of place and colonial collecting • repatriation and restitution • provenance research • library architecture • libraries as destinations • collecting for institutions that have no 'home' (e.g. protest movements) • the digital 'place'

A quick note to say that not all strokes present with one-sided weakness. Sudden loss of language with or without headache may be a sign. Important that you communicate what is baseline for the individual or they might ascribe it to other age-related issues.

Why have I given myself so much to do? And more importantly, how will I do it all?

Very worried life is all style, no substance at the moment. Not a nice feeling.

The full programme for the SSMLL Annual Conference 2026, Medieval Wales, is now available! Join us 25-26 April at @cardiffuni.bsky.social and online for two days of research exploring the languages and literature of medieval Wales.

Immensely cheered up by some good news today. And thank goodness, because February has really gotten to me this year.

Don't forget this CFP cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

This cheese is delicious.

King Cake? How about King Q? Initial whimsy in Inc. 3360 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social!

Someone has started a Hereford Gospels Appreciation Page on Facebook.🥹

Also, new jumper! There's something empowering about wearing clothes you made yourself.

A man just returned this. I said thank you and sent him away with a Hereford Gospels exhibition poster.😂 Shameless.

Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads? My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.

This is exactly how I feel about February, which is objectively the worst month. (Also, it is nice to see St Louis.)

My Instagram and Facebook feeds are full of libraries doing Bad Bunny/Superbowl memes and it is just delightful. #TinyJoys

The best no context note? None of us know where this came from, but it's now on the reading room desk.

Case 6: manuscript feast! (Direct quote from exhibition planning notes.) This will be such a small exhibition but I hope it will be worthwhile.

So many things about me suggest I should love Bob Dylan, and yet every time I try to convince myself, I fail. (Though library assistant bought me the soundtrack to I'm Not There years ago and I do really love that. Do I just need Bob Dylan covers?)

My dad calls me every Superbowl Sunday. It's very sweet, if somewhat mystifying because he knows I've never cared about any sports.

Long COVID is ongoing. So is our commitment to visibility, prevention, and patient-led action. Let’s move into March organized, unified, and paced. View our announcement and Preparation Guide here: bit.ly/LCA26PGE 11/

Husband has surprised me with a root beer from the corner shop! Unfortunately it's just made me a little homesick.😔

The surprise Wuthering Heights / Mansfield Park crossover you didn’t know you needed

Love this painting, especially that it looks like Chappell Roan has discussed time travel. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/06/a...

Ugh, policy writing! I like writing and love referring to policies, but that's because I hate telling people what to do...feel this is probably an inherent conflict.

"Academic staff aren’t included in recognition systems, so their work remains invisible; faculty don’t see them being recognized, so assume no significant intellectual work is happening; this assumption justifies continued cultural and structural exclusion." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Anyone have advice on running an online conference? Asking for a friend. (Okay, me, it's me!)

Always great to dig in the collection: small 1588 book by Bonaventure Bertram bound in 11th century gospel of Matthew. 😍😍

I am so cool that today I've been adding tags for hanging tea towels.😂

The dials & devices at the Oxford History of Science Museum. 👇 BBC News - Did this inspire His Dark Materials 'golden compass'? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I do love our beaten up bindings.😍

Eve of St Stephen would mean Christmas, right? Why would someone write the date this way instead?

Body confident book loves its cursives says catalogue.

"This MS is written on stout vellum" might be the kindest and most accurate description of the Hereford Gospels that I've come across.😂 FT Havergal, Fasti Herefordenses, 1896.

I love our volunteers, so am heartbroken that as of today there's one fewer. 💔 Many challenges to managing volunteers and this is probably the worst.

Did some cape swooshing in Winchester yesterday.😂 (Also, these are apparently wedding gates for Charles & Diana?! Terrifying.)

The Newberry is noncirculating. BUT we have plenty of inspiration... americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

Thrilled to be served red velvet hot chocolate in Berylware!

This is my teenage dream come true. 😍

Get yourself friends who have a G&T waiting for you when you arrive for a weekend catchup.

If I get nothing else out of the experience of applying for the Government Indemnity Scheme, I hope learning to do an electronic signature is enough.

And bursaries are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

When I was in college, I could never stay up studying until 3 am. I had to go to bed at my usual time and wake up at 3 am instead. Turns out I'm just the same now that I'm grown up. I just feel the early starts a lot more...

Today the Church of England remembers Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, a reconciler, a great pastor (and a very able administrator), and last but not least, the man who abolished the slave trade in Bristol and across his diocese. Wulfstan died this day in 1095.

What is hope, if not spite persevering?

6 yo has a cold, which means we have both been up 2-3 hours the last two nights. I have a library to clean and insurance to sort out. Not a great combo. I am very grumpy.

We got new office carpet! I giggle every time I walk in because we unintentionally chose exactly the same colour we had before, so it looks exactly the same (though we did move bookshelves).