CFP: Call for Chapter Proposals: Creating Welcoming Spaces in Academic Libraries librarywriting.blogspot.com/2026/05/cfp-... #skybrarians 📚

Thinking of Professional Registration and embarking on your chartership journey? Or are you already on it? Check out our training & information sessions where you'll work with peers and mentors and have the opportunity to ask questions. See all our events to end of 2026: https://ow.ly/n6nO50Z9g2I

Thinking about revalidating but never quite find the time? Why not join me on Thursday morning for #CILIP Revalidate in a Morning and get it done!

Editorial: Alison Hicks outlines the great content in this latest JIL issue. We also meet JIL’s new associate editors—Yvonne Eadon, Charlotte Im, Yucong Lao and Sarah McNicol—who each share their thoughts on information literacy. Read here: doi.org/10.11645/20.... #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy

All this week, we're celebrating our fantastic volunteers for #VolunteersWeek. Thank you for all the work you do for your #CILIPCommunity! Interested? Contact us at [email protected] for an informal chat.

Looking forward to digging into this issue of JIL - lots of interesting stuff. Plus my LILAC26 conference report, which I promise is not just about trams...

Cannot wait until I no longer have to deal with emails entitled "Skirt and Sock Expectations"

LIBRARY CAMPAIGNERS CONDEMN BAN ON LIBRARIES PROMOTING PRIDE We condemn an order by the newly elected leadership of @Essex_CC to its library service not to promote #Pride, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ identity, culture, and history. www.yourharlow.com/2026/06/02/r...

If you are in central London TONIGHT and you think "I'll just wait for the buses to get quieter bcos tube strike" then come to the free launch of our Festival of Storytelling at Science Gallery London (London Bridge) 6pm and have a drink with us and swap a book: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

Pride Month reading. Great list of suggestions from @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social from @lselibrary.bsky.social and school staff see them all here blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... #pride @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social

"News organisations are in a unique position to counter false and harmful narratives," writes TBIJ's Gareth Davies "That opportunity, and people’s trust, should not be squandered for the sake of generating clicks"

Just finished reading Drained by @leahruppanner.bsky.social and feel very seen! A wonderfully hopeful book that doesn’t shy away from the structural issues but gives practical strategies for everyday life too. Timely reminder of the link between mental load, identity and normative gender ideas.

Working on a systematic review search strategy and couldn't find one of the target papers so did a bit of detective work and realised I was missing out a key search term... just added it in and it managed to add over a 100 papers to the results... not sure if this a win for the authors or not 😂

Give this a share if you get chance please. So many cisgender women who do not want this for the trans+ community or the division it causes for us all notinourname.org.uk

It's Fairer Share Day by the way... I wasn't just randomly thinking about Nationwide...

I know people are a bit funny about changing banks but for the last few years I've received at least £100 each year from Nationwide as part of their Happy Fairer Share Day. It's the closest feeling to getting a bonus I've ever had. Would highly recommend. Plus building societies rule.

LIbrarians. A moment of silence for our museum colleagues.

What would be cool is if Google bought back 2001-era search. Mind boggling speed and performance, no promo BS. They could even call it something stupid like Raw Dog so Joe Rogan and the people who did those weird things on flights like it. And, most importantly, it would work! Imagine that.

It is very funny to me, a person who fact-checks copy and breaks down transcripts as a basic part of my job, to see people who have never done either of those things at all thought-experiment what it might entail and what kind of theoretical efficiencies a chatbot might provide

Join CILIP East for a 45 minute introductory tour of the @theul.bsky.social exhibition: Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers with Dr Chris Burgess at Cambridge University Library. 16/06/2026 @ 12:15. Register here: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Maybe we'll get some spoons in our tearoom with all the extra cash...

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

University workers in Cambridge are on strike today. Demands are a Cambridge weighting to help with living costs.

Dear academic colleagues. Please sign and share this open letter expressing your support for Physics & Astronomy at Nottingham, as the university plans unnecessary and devastating cuts. One in three academics staff expected to lose their jobs nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/...

Her comment about the 4 in 5 reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the economic importance of HE as a sector, partnerships with local industry and the NHS, and that other rather important work of universities alongside teaching - research.

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

#LibrariesChangeLives Week is for EVERY library in EVERY sector. Public, school, academic, health, workplace - all change lives every day. Join #CILIP to celebrate the breadth of what libraries contribute to society: https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/libraries-change-lives#LibrariesChangeLives

As someone who knows a bit about door knocking, canvassing and local elections, I cannot overstate the significance of DID NOT VOTE that gets overlooked by pretty much everyone. DNV2024 turning out for Reform coupled with LAB2024 going Green is the story of LE2026.

Looking forward to attending as much of #CALC26 as I can over the next few days. Fabulous programme @patchedelbows.bsky.social and @michelleab.bsky.social 👏

“Blue Labour” has comprehensively failed, because even if if you are willing to be exceptionally cruel to immigrants (and some people seem worryingly happy to), you can never outflank the actual fascists, while you’ll lose voters who see immigrants as people.

At last! The archived British Library blogs are viewable online. Check the index of blogs at blogs-archive.bl.uk and the hundreds of posts on the Digital Scholarship blog going back to 2013 blogs-archive.bl.uk#digital-scho...

We really need to discuss making ourselves less (or non-) reliant on these products. Same goes for online catalogs for libraries. If our entire operation is reliant on a private piece of software that could go down at any moment... well, we can't really have serious conversations about resilience.

When we all use the same proprietary software, it only takes one institution to have weak security for all of us to be compromised.

In an attempt to get back into the habit of writing, I wrote a little something about my to-do list app of choice: In praise of Todoist fictioninthespacebetweenblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/i...

Join me and @echomikeromeo.bsky.social on 4 June for an evening of trans history at the Birmingham LGBT Centre. Expect fun stories, unexpected connections, serious takeaways, and a little bit of hope. Free but register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-tr...

This Anthropic Fellows paper is well worth a look as their findings counter some of the common sense reasoning that GenAI will just get better at not being wrong - especially for harder tasks, with an increasing likelihood of random errors that make no sense. alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mes...

I look at English higher education, and its destruction by this government and those before it, and feel such melancholy sadness. They have torn down something wonderful. They have hurt so many good people, who only wanted careers teaching and researching.

Last call - if you don’t have plans for Wednesday evening, this will be fun. #Skystorians #BookHistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-and-...

30000 university jobs gone in the UK in 3 years. These are people who were working in all job types, at all levels from most junior to most senior.

The Business Librarians Association @blalib.org conference programme is out! And look what's at the bottom of it. This is what I love to see-it's my dream for all conference programmes to include a hashtag & to promote it in advance #BLA26 (Says she, constantly avoiding volunteering to organise...)

Love how pretty much all the advice for dealing with hay fever is basically take a break from life for a bit… I would love to not go outdoors for three months mate but kids, work, health, and actually living life make that a difficult strategy to implement

So apparently if you maintain something with tyres, using metal dust caps is a really, really bad idea.

Just trying to process that the new way to find quality information is going to be filtering search results to pre-2022... so many implications, not least of all currency is turned on its head.

1,804 answered our survey on what difference the £1.15 reservation charge per book will make to their library use. 67.3% will use their library less 21.9% will stop using their library 10.8% will make no difference 58% not aware of the planned charge #Essex #saveourlibraries #libraries

Hey #Library folk check out this #LGBTQIA resources account for library, knowledge & information workers 📚📜

The nudge I needed to remind me to book onto this always brilliant conference! Now I have snaffled one of the remaining tickets, I can encourage you lot to go ahead and book the rest 😁

Join us on 14th April, 12-1pm to explore how the UK Print Book Collection (UK PBC) is transforming the way libraries safeguard access to scarce print monographs. Lean how the UK PBC works, the benefits, and what it means for your institution. Sign up here 👉 tinyurl.com/CILIP-UK-PBC