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Collection of learning resources for library types from artefacto libraryskills.io 📚

This is a valuable collection of articles on all things writing for publication #medlibs 📚

River Roding is full of sewage before it even reaches built up areas www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...

I have a new collection of stickers in my shop, under the tag of 'heta-uma', which roughly translates from Japanese to 'bad but good' or 'unskilled good'. It's one of my favourite art styles. adarrenrileypainting.com/search?q=het...

When you start reading and your initial mental process is "they do boolean action figures now?" 📚

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

Nice little case study. Recent research on high and low uptake organisations for the discovery tool I manage is clear - Knowledge and library service team engagement and activity is critical for moving from having a knowledge resource to people using it #medlibs 📚

Interesting read on AI impacts and options from an important publisher for #medlibs - a note of caution on including AI without thinking through customer benefit www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/ai-...

Always glad to see Belle and Sebastian

Back from leave. Time to play the traditional "how many emails in the inbox?" game

Will Essex County Council's decision to impose a £1.15 charge for each adult book reservation change how you use Essex Library Service? Please complete the short survey below. #Essex #libraries @BBCEssex docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A little known treat in #IG10

Loved this show when it was put on locally

Looks like Essex County Council have been a bit slow off the mark securing their bluesky name

My local public library (Loughton) has just announced that their Facebook page (branded Loughton Library) is now only going to talk about things happening at Harlow Library. What is the point of that? @sole-essex.bsky.social

I've decided to shut my business and do more volunteer / community work. If you know of an organisation which could use a board member with strong digital skills, extensive experience in open source and open standards, or cybersecurity please let me know.

One of the classics for a reason #datalibs #datasky #databs

post about the difference between ambient recording notes of a clinical interview and a clinical interview. Seen similar in recent qualitative interviews - the summary transcript records what was discussed but lacked hugely in recording what was said benngooch.substack.com/p/i-was-an-e...

Each post takes an aspect of writing or publishing, & breaks it down into an accessible guide, based on my decades of running successful writing groups, & editing a peer-reviewed journal. Recent posts inc: What makes a good journal article?; Who decides who’s an author?; & Get started with a plan!

Sorry to hear that www.tomlinsons-online.com/default.aspx is ceasing trading. Many years of valued service to #medlibs

I love it when a blurb reads like a prepared hostage statement. “My captors are… treating me… well”

Evening Light, Snowdonia, c.1960, painting by Kyffin Williams, Welsh artist (1918-2006).

Library staff numbers halved since 2010, according to new FOI report by UNISON 'Closing chapters' highlights the impact of funding pressures. UNISON is calling on the government to provide sustained investment so councils can rebuild services and restore library staffing levels.

Magnolia special

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

With both AI haters & zealots flooding the zone with increasingly troll-ish posts, it's easy to forget most folks here are normal about the technology. Here's a thread of "normal folks posting about AI" that I enjoyed: 1/n

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Long boi

A really fun show

'"I can code this from scratch" is way more impressive than you might think given toxic industry pro-AI nonsense. The same goes for writing clearly, reading and comprehending journal articles, thinking things through.'

Become ungovernable

Babybird at the Shepherds Bush Empire

Reviewing interviews with NHS staff about how they access & use evidence. My conclusion is we could effect massive change by each NHS librarian spending one hour a day asking individuals what evidence they need and how they currently access it and then offering some tailored help #medlibs 📚

Today in the panopticon - a well known corporate AI tool tells someone who wasn't at a meeting that you were wondering if they had done something

Good to see this opening a bit again #Loughton #EppingForest more post boxes than you can imagine

Caught in an 2FA death spiral again

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

Good start the week read - Steve Harnad on open access (in general) and LLMs katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Everyman Cinema goers - is the volume always cranked up on the music in the bar bit or is it just a Friday night thing? Went for "The Secret Agent" last night (v good) but can't imagine sitting in the bar comfortably at that volume

Rupert Gatti will feel very Muir Gray to health librarians - "there is a crisis? Great" we can do some stuff #CopimConference

New Book! Out Now! Slow Librarianship: Reflections and Practices Authors describe what slow librarianship means to them in their work and roles while sharing concrete practices and ways to enact the tenets of slow librarianship in your work. https://litwinbooks.com/books/slow-librarianship/

Now Siddaharth Soni - Scholarly Book and the Digital Commons. Always glad to return to the commons #CopimConference

This looks like a great read on the role of pharma in the medical knowledge environment - open access #medlibs 📚 www.matteringpress.org/product/ghos...

Love the point from @simonjbains.bsky.social that projects can be a real motivator during times of cuts and pressure #CopimConference

Discussion of preservation of PhD theses at #CopimConference - NHS has a potential interest in the lower academic status masters dissertations too where these are based on in practice work in clinical environments

Oops. Misread the #CopimConference timetable so am going to arrive for coffee break #ErrorDiary

Heading for #CopimConference looking forward to thinking about what it all might mean in an NHS context and chatting with a few folk. Made it a proper conference by going for a #libraruns squelch around the forest this morning

... hired a librarian for his research group to help organize citations and support literature searches. The collaboration was hugely helpful. So helpful, in fact, that his colleagues started asking to ‘borrow’ the information specialist for their own projects. www.nature.com/articles/d41...