The first of this term's LIS research seminars is starting in just under 30 mins. I'm looking forward to seeing those of you who've registered there. If you've not registered yet, you can still do so from this page cassyni.com/events/RY5W1...

Accelerated Reader destroyed my son's love of reading, and I will hate it forever, and every single advocate of it, because of that.

Be handy if the sent time showed the poster's local time not my timezone; I think I could filter out a lot less crazy if I could see they're posting codswallop at 3am

Weeeeey! Love to see this. Now go bag yourself a copy! 🧜‍♂️🐺👹🧛

Remember all my mad book drama? (If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...) Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over! An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼‍♂️

The pump nozzles for unleaded and diesel should be different sizes or shapes that don't fit if it's the wrong fuel for your car.

I got distracted by Kevin the strike dog when this photo was being taken #PupsOnPickets #StrikeDogs

This week is a great time to make sure your collection development policy has language about information accuracy. Budgets are limited and we have a responsibility to our communities.

We have 3 days of joint action with Unison so will be out with colleagues across UoN libraries! Please share your best #AngryLibrarians picket signs for inspiration.

When I was attacked for stating my politics plainly—something everybody else is doing too even if they don’t know it—the universal response from liberal institutions was to tell me to stop talking. Universal. The idea that any of this is about “free speech” is so infuriating.

This accessible, local service is saving Brits £1,473 a year. www.better.org.uk/news/this-ac... Love your #library

I can only speak of hair grips not pins; but if secreting them on every available surface, in every box and in every drawer is an indication of mild mania, then yes, this theory may have some weight.

📢 NLISN In Person Event! 📢 Adjustments in the LIS Workplace for Neurodivergent Staff Monday, October 6 · 10am – 3:30pm GMT+1 Leeds Beckett University, Headingly Campus £25.00 Book here 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/adjustment...

One more week to complete this survey (closing 15 Sep). So far v few responses from #IrishLibrarians - would be great if @victoriarend.bsky.social could capture insights on linguistic diversity and #Gaeilge provision in #Éire & #TuaisceartÉireann #LeabharlannaPoiblí #PublicLibraries #LanguageRights

Yeah well whose fault is that??

Really sad and infuriating to see this happening. Waseem Farooq of the Aga Khan Library was talking about this very issue at #CALC back in 2020 👇 sites.google.com/view/calccon...

But also, why wouldn't you? 💁

'Shopping Maul' Yes I did, and No, I won't apologise! All shot using real figures, lighting and miniatures

Seminar 2 of the LIS Research Seminar Series is now confirmed. Come and hear @patchedelbows.bsky.social talk about his brilliant research on HE librarians & social class. Some of you probably even contributed 😉 cassyni.com/series/KVXBf...

Registration is open for the Canadian neurodivergent gallery, library, archive & museum workers conference 🍁🧠📚📜 It's Free & Online! Sessions include: Navigating Environmental Mismatch as a #Neurodiverse Academic #Librarian Navigating Work Post-Disclosure ⬇️ westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Not displeased 💁📣

I think there are broader issues in academic research about being dependent on infrastructure we cannot trust - I’m thinking of systematic review colleagues wrestling with EBSCO interface changes at the moment, NHS librarians when HDAS and NICE Evidence Search went.

Proud to announce I am now Librarian at the National Portrait Gallery 📚 🖼 🌟

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

Queer as Folklore, by @sachacoward.bsky.social, is exactly what I was hoping for when I first saw it! I have been meaning to look for more books about our real place in history. And this is precisely what I wanted! 🌈📖🏳️‍⚧️ Sacha withdrew the book from the #PolariPrize nomination, so go check it out! 💜

I am so quiet here these days. I'm immersed in the new job. 6 months in feeling settled and happy. I had a request to peer review an today which I accepted. I also had a nudge to re-submit my article and I set a deadline so now I will get it done.

Tilly Macdonald recently wrote in The Spectator that she doesn’t want her husband to have more paternity leave, because he doesn’t know how to do the laundry and “clatters about’ in the kitchen. But paternity leave isn’t the problem, says Paul Nowak. Tilly’s husband is.

my finger is just a bloody nub at this point i've been tapping the sign so much

So btw, fellas, if a woman blocks you on all social media and refuses to speak to you, LEAVE HER THE FUCK ALONE. At #sdcc 📚 I witnessed a male librarian, who is blocked by my female colleague for his long history of problematic and just creepy behavior. But he showed up to her panel.👇

Our book is out! Tell your comrades to get a copy! www.ala.org/news/2025/07...

I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.

This is a game changer holy shit health.mountsinai.org/blog/a-new-t...

Technically an employee for another week but have now finished working at Coventry University Library 🥳🥳🥳 A week off to get sorted and move, then I'll be joining University of Suffolk. *waves to east of England library folk*

LILAC Stories is out in the world, please enjoy my lovely massive report eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/12...

Delighted to say you can now view @ckamposiori.bsky.social talk from #CALC25 on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/SIZL3FyFESY?...

HEADS UP. BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature! By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though: *Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*

I'm not often proud of myself, but I've just placed our first book order with the local bookshop as supplier and it feels pretty great. #ShopLocal

Second a fascinating roundtable discussion from numerous #CritLib folks 'Changing the landscape: a roundtable discussion on de/colonial dimensions of LIS praxis' Using themes of Power, Being and Knowledge the panel discuss critical LIS education, research and practice www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cwQ...

First is our brilliant keynote from Teresa Helena Moreno 'Everywhere and nowhere: finding my people in the library'. Teresa discusses the experience of looking for her chicana identity and heritage in the library and the critical explorations this unearthed. youtu.be/B4rCgdZCgjU

We're almost done with captioning for #CALC25. Two more videos are up this week 🤩 #Critlib #LibrarySky #SkyBrarians

Since this interview, the youngest-ever Carnegie winner has also won a @uklitassociation.bsky.social award for Glasgow Boys. One of the best young working-class writers out there without doubt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hello friendos Your librarian here with a tip When you put a hold on a ebook or e-audiobook and it's ready for you but you're not ready for it, you can click a button and it goes to the next person and then circles back to you.

The EHRC consultation closes TOMORROW - have your say before then. We've produced some guidance to make it easier to wade through: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

Read Christine M. Moeller's "Disability, Identity, and Professionalism: Precarity in Librarianship" From the Winter 2019 special issue of Library Trends devoted to Disabled Adults in Libraries at @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/723591

GCs are such fucking clowns my goodness

Brilliant talk from @siobhanh.bsky.social! Thanks as ever to the #CALC25 team.

A lot of the UK is in for another hot weekend, so remember to look after yourself in the heat. Some advice: 1. Remember, Pimm's is actually terrible. You might have thought it was nice, but that was probably environmental; drain water would seem nice in a sunny beer garden/bbq/tennis match.

Solidarity to everyone at the brilliant Lambeth libraries!

Double bill of #CALC25 recordings released today 🥳 First is Jonathan Koestlé-Cate & Alexandra Lourenço Dias' session 'Book Alchemy' discussing an activity originally designed for dyslexic students that brings new life to old book through art #CritLib #Skybrarians #LibrarySky youtu.be/mPKTg5QRhio

Here's a thread about a virtual conference that's actually accessible. How? Because it was designed and executed by disabled people who care about access and know what it takes to build meaningful community. Take notes. 1/11