Oh, this is cool 📚 🚇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

My PhD thesis - Memory and Museum Community Engagement - is available online! The work sits in the intersection(s) of museum studies, memory studies and sociology and it explores memory (work) in three Scottish museum community engagement projects: eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50...

here's my presentation to the super #LKFS2025; super important conversations. Many thanks to @masudk.com and colleagues for showing the way to knowledge futures. and here's Allan Ginsberg on the library dancefloor! anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/k...

Thoughtful discussion at #LKFS2025 @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social on the intersection of knowledge, culture & the Arts. The challange set out? @christophersmith.bsky.social: The Library is a dance floor, let’s dance. Amina Shah @natlibscot.bsky.social Be More Library. Bridget Bennett: Be Unquiet.

Here's a great story alongside #LKFS2025 about one of the AHRC @rluk.ac.uk fellows Jonathan Bush "The Fellowship not only shaped the trajectory of my professional life but also opened up new possibilities for collaboration, advocacy, and long-term impact." www.rluk.ac.uk/blog-post-a-...

“Libraries are being deconstructed” @aminatshah.bsky.social Is this to limit democratic critical thinking I wonder? #LKFS2025

Wonderful quote from @aminatshah.bsky.social at #LKFS2025 “libraries are helping people find light, helping people connect”.

“What would it sound like if books had voices”. Love this quote from Professor Christopher Smith, at the start of the Knowledge Futures conference, organised by the University of Leeds Library. #LKFS2023 @masudk.com @christophersmith.bsky.social

See the full programme here conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefut... #LKFS2025

I am delighted that @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social and @lulgalleries.bsky.social are hosting the inaugural Knowledge Futures Symposium today. An amazing speaker lineup discussing the future of knowledge in a world full of mis/dis-information, fake news, and other contemporary challenges. #LKFS2025

This week beginning 9th June, is #LonelinessAwarenessWeek, instigated by the @marmaladetrust . A smile and saying “hello” to somebody is always good, but there are real connections to be found at our #publiclibraries. #scottishlibraries @CILIPScotland @agescotland

A fascinating insight into this new #openaccess book from @scotunipress.bsky.social

The power of libraries in communities, is well articulated in this powerful award winning film from #Shetlandlibraries. #scottishlibraries #communities #dementia youtu.be/H-fRR6x55m0

Don't forget that you can join Richard for the online book launch 👉 📅 Thursday 22 May ⏰ 2pm BST Register here and submit your questions in advance: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🌟 It's publication day for 'The vow of stability: An ethnography of monastic life'! 👏Congratulations to Dr Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social on his unique account of life in a Catholic Benedictine monastery. Download #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #SocialAnthropology

🚀We’re thrilled to announce our updated Realist Economic Evaluation Guidance! Our guidance shows how realist and economic evaluation approaches can be combined in a practical way to enable better decision-making.🤔 shorturl.at/kjtyk #RealistEvaluation #EconomicEvaluation #DecisionMaking #NewRelease

Just seen this show and it is fantastic! Worth getting a ticket if you are in Edinburgh.

Learn about the theory underpinning current library cataloguing standards (AACR2, MARC21, RDA) and develop your practical cataloguing skills. In partnership with @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social. @cilipmdg.bsky.social www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass again addressed an audience at the church in Abbey Close, Paisley: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

Reading for pleasure has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. And every reader is different, and enjoys reading different things in different ways. So please: let kids read for pleasure and celebrate books EVERY DAY - not just #WorldBookDay!

I’ve got a record out today. I'm very proud of it, give us a share if you like it. raibeartruadhainn.bandcamp.com/album/4am

Are you a reader in Scotland? 📚 Sign up to take part in Readers of Scotland, a research project aimed at exploring readers' experiences and helping more people access all the benefits that reading has to offer. www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...

“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.” —Janice Galloway, writing in 2002 #GrayDay www.theguardian.com/books/2002/o...

A joy to attend the celebration #GrayDay at the wonderful #OranMor in Glasgow. Congratulations to the #AlasdairGrayArchive

🏗️ UWS has launched a Workplace Learning Town Planning degree, designed to fill 500+ vacancies and support sustainable urban development. 📍 @uniwestscotland.bsky.social 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/new-workplac... #TownPlanning #SustainableCities #WorkplaceLearning

CILIP Scotland are delighted to be supporting the launch of the #LoveLibraries campaign. As part of the campaign we are hosting a range of inspiring case studies, have a read & help celebrate the difference Scotland's libraries and librarians make -https://www.cilips.org.uk/love-libraries-launch

Must see exhibition now on in #Edinburgh.

Welp. There's EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU and LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, marked as "remove from all libraries" as of October. 🙃

This is an unsolicited PSA to support and promote your local library. They are such a special public good in more ways than are immediately obvious. Also a great bonus for researchers: if you can, find a way to partner with library professionals in your research ❤️

Reading to improve my writing….. and to escape into another world. Always good to start a new book in the New Year.

#AdoorableThursday Bodleian Library after hours tour

We need a new information literacy. An information literacy that is no longer about generating skepticism with methods of interrogating information sources, but instead about coping with a world where ALL information is seen as suspect.

Enjoying the downtime but thinking about next steps in my research into the impact of Scottish Public Libraries on loneliness and social isolation.

In August a Liverpool library was set on fire in a fake-news fuelled riot, it's amazing how quickly & positively they've rebuilt. All library services can show their support on 12 Dec #ShareTheLight #SpellowLibrary #LibrariesChangeLives

📣 Big news! After a successful launch we are delighted to announce that SUP has expanded its scope to include submissions from researchers at all UK higher education institutions! Let's publish more #OpenAccess books 🔓📚 Read all about it here: www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis...

I've not come across a starter pack focusing specifically on senior leaders with overall responsibility for university libraries (dean, director, head) so thought I'd start one. I'm sure I've missed plenty of people, so let me know to be added! go.bsky.app/7DgUMvf

Best weather for a writing day 😊#staysafe #staywarm #professionaldoctorate #publiclibrariesimpactonloneliness #scottishpubliclibraries

Always inspired by the #SCURLEDI network discussions. We are reviewing the EDI toolkit for #SCURLmembers across #highereducation. www.scurl.ac.uk/edi-toolkit-...

*waves to new followers* Did you know I co-run a conference called Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC)? And our call for papers is out now? It closes next week (Thurs 28th Nov) so get your thoughts to us! sites.google.com/view/calccon...

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Please share! The Call for Papers is now live for UX in Libraries 9, 10-12 June 2025 in Liverpool: ‘Trust the Process’. If you work in libraries and are involved in user experience research or design work then you might want to submit a paper proposal. Full details: uxlib.org/2024/11/14/c...

Helpful question at #SCONUL conference on how we can educate our students on Cyber security. If you want to use it, the free Open University course on cyber security is here:

#edusky #education #SEN #ASN folks have a look at this fantastic research and resource and help out my colleague, will you?! Thanks

Reading one of those books that you don’t really want to finish! Fabulous stories with the library at the centre. Enjoy! #books #libraries #read

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

Sharing this moving story about working in a public library, written by Louise Scollay from @shetlandlibrary m.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fR...

📣Librarians working in a UK university library?📣 Want to help my research looking at the social backgrounds of UK academic librarians? Having a (maybe) final push for new participants in my questionnaire 👇 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... #Skybrarians #LibrarySky #LISResearch

Feeling a bit isolated in the library world? You're not alone! The NLISN buddying scheme is here to connect you with someone who gets it. Sign up today and find your community! #NeurodivergentAndProud #Libraries #NLISN 📚 nlisn.org/buddying-sch...

Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, survey finds

Thank you for the opportunity to talk to the #SLICLeadershipcohorts about the development of Forward: Scotland’s Public Library Strategy scottishlibraries.org/advice-guidanc… Loved delivering this presentation. Name checks for @SLICCEO, @BanffshireProf and @CILIPScotland