In this week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update you'll find details of the first few events in 2025/26 programme, an opportunity to get involved in a solo expert event and a frontline forum event, as well as a host of job vacancies in the region: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

In this week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update you'll find details of the first few events in 2025/26 programme and a host of job opportunities in the region: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

In this week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update you'll find details of a job opportunity with ALN; the first couple of events in 2025/26 programme; a first look at our new Staff Development infographic; and an NLISN neurodivergent library staff survey: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

Check out these beautiful books, very kindly donated to us by our #ALN25 platinum sponsors, @manchesterup.bsky.social, for our analogue social media competition 📚 Thank you so much! Congratulations to our lucky winner, Kirsty Hemsworth 😊

Check out these beautiful books, very kindly donated to us by our #ALN25 platinum sponsors, @manchesterup.bsky.social, for our analogue social media competition 📚 Thank you so much! Congratulations to our lucky winner, Kirsty Hemsworth 😊

This week's ALN Staff Development Update details the last event in the 2024/5 programme, jobs and opportunities such as details of new ways to join the NLISN; EDI initiatives and SCONUL initiatives; and proposed dates for Frontline Forums 2025/26: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

Join @jisc.bsky.social online next week to explore how organisations can deepen collaboration to tackle shared challenges in #OpenAccess We have an exciting panel of speakers lined up for you! 🌐 Strengthening through collaboration 📅 21 July 2025 | 10:00–12:00 BST 🔗 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/stren...

What an incredible day at #ALN25 last Friday! 🎉 Huge thanks to our planning team, presenters, attendees, sponsors, and everyone who helped bring the day to life - we couldn’t have done it without you!

We’re about to host the closing talk of the conference, where we’ll announce the winners of our competitions and bring the day to a close #ALN25

Our sponsors help to make the conference the success it always is! Thank you to our silver sponsors: Content Online; De Gruyter Brill; HS Talks; The Social History Archive; VitalSource; Clarivate; and Bloomsbury Publishing. #ALN25

Our gold sponsor for the in-person day is OCLC (www.oclc.org/en/home.html). Thank you for supporting ALN Conference 2025 😊 #ALN25

Our Platinum sponsor for the conference is Manchester University Press (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk) @manchesterup.bsky.social Thank you for supporting ALN Conference 2025 😊

Now we're hearing a talk from our gold sponsor, OCLC #ALN25

love this! #ALN25

#ALN25. Brilliant wellbeing session Painting by numbers with Fred Milton. Decided to paint outside the lines but my chaffinch doesn't look too bad and I feel much more relaxed for it.

Now we've got some more workshops and short papers. We hope you're enjoying the day so far! 😊 #ALN25

Fantastic tour round the Manchester Poetry library: really got me thinking about art in library spaces and how welcoming it makes the space #ALN25

A visit to the rather wonderful (and only public one of its kind) Poetry Library. #aln25

We're running two competitions today! ✨ ➡️ Share a photo that sums up your experience of ALN 2025. Please email us at [email protected] or directly message us with your photo @academiclibrariesnorth on Instagram by 2pm.

Lunchtime in the sunshiiine! #aln25

How do we engage with AI? Possibly an existential threat to publishing and libraries. The library are one of the only bits of the library which have a director of AI, so working closely with them, putting their content in a LLM. #ALN25

Completely endorse recommendation from Simon Ross of Manchester Uni Press to visit the Manchester Poetry Library. If in Edinburgh, go to the Scottish Poetry Library! @byleaveswelive.bsky.social #ALN25

You can play at home...5 minutes to think, talk or draw one factor or issue related to your library work and think through the futures #ALN25 Monica Westin's keynote.

Going to be bright and warm today. Don't forget to hydrate if you're coming to #aln25.

Coming up next: workshops, short papers, and a guided tour of the Manchester Poetry Library! 📚✨ #ALN25

Did you know that a quiet space is available today at the in-person ALN Conference? 👀 Feel free to use this space throughout the day. See our programme for more details ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1... #ALN25

Next up is a talk from our platinum sponsor, University of Manchester Press. #aln25

Two core concepts in this talk: radical sustainability and a few models of obsolescence. Radical sustainability = a practice of choosing our priorities to stretch our values across time, change and inevitably the obsolescence of many of our current systems #ALN25

Our keynote talk by Monica Westin (Associate Director of Content and Discovery, Library and Cultural Services, Manchester Metropolitan University) is well underway #ALN25

Great start to the keynote from Monica Westin. We should design with obsolescence in mind. Microfiche was the future once! #aln25

Thank you to Rachel Beckett for opening the conference and welcome to Monica Westin, our keynote speaker for today. Monica will be discussing 'The 10,000 year librarian: Radical sustainability for enduring knowledge‘. #ALN25

The conference will be opened today by Rachel Beckett (Director, Library and Cultural Services, Manchester Metropolitan University) #ALN25

Backbeat the word is on the street that the 2025 ALN Conference is about to begin! #aln25

Today we’re hosting the in-person day of the ALN Conference 2025 at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School! And would you believe it - sunshine again? It’s always sunny at ALN 😏☀️ #ALN25

No cigarettes and alcohol at the ALN Conference today, just a stonking great programme of keynotes, talks, sponsor presentations and workshops. #aln25

We’ve got an exciting day lined up tomorrow at the in-person day of #ALN25! Keynote, workshops, short papers, lightning talks, sponsor talks, a wellbeing space and a tour of the Manchester Poetry Library. Can’t wait to see you there! academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a...

Issue #71 (9 July 2025) of the ALN Staff Development Update is now available. There are a couple of reviews of SD events from this year; details of EDI initiatives and of SCONUL initiatives; as well as the proposed dates for Frontline Forums 2025/26. academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

We won't be supplying lanyards or name badges at the in-person day on Friday so please feel free to bring your own. academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a... #ALN25

🎧 Have you checked out our brand new ALN Conference podcast yet?... (1/3)

A quite space will be available at the in-person day of #ALN25. Feel free to use this space throughout the day. See our programme for more details. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We've got a great day planned at the in-person day of #ALN25. Keynote, workshops, short papers, lightning talks, sponsor talks, a wellbeing space and a tour of the Manchester Poetry Library. Can't wait to see you there! academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a...

Not long to go until the in-person day of #ALN25. Our keynote for the day is Monica Westin - The 10,000 year librarian: radical sustainability for enduring knowledge. We're looking forward to hearing this! academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a...

Only 11 days to go! Day 2 of the ALN Conference is packed with inspiring keynotes, dynamic workshops, and powerful moments you won’t want to miss. We can't wait to see you all soon!

A big congratulations to our Wellbeing Photo Competition winners, Joanne and Ciara! Thank you to everyone who took part - choosing a winner was no easy task!

Thank you to everyone who took part in our wellbeing photo competition during Wednesday’s ALN online conference! 📸 We loved seeing your creative and inspiring submissions 🤩 Here’s a collage featuring some of the entries - swipe through to see them all ➡️ #ALN25

A huge thank you to all our fantastic presenters and delegates who joined us for today’s online conference - we hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did! 👏 Big thanks to our brilliant sponsors for their support as well 😊

Looking forward to speaking at ALN online conference today

Excited to learn about how other institutions promote collections through awareness months #ALN25

Now entering the wind chime, rain and crickets audio section of the #ALN25 Foyer soundtrack. The Foyer is open for tech support for all the online day, and hosted the opening, the keynote and will host the gold sponsor talk at 13:50.