AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers ACRL ALA #AI www.ala.org/acrl/standar...

Thank you Edward Kemp of Royal Literary Fund for the reminder this October's the centenary of AA Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh www.rlf.org.uk/estate/a-a-m... 'When we were very young' & 'Now we are six' are storytime faves at our house. Bonus point if you know which two animals Winnie's named after?

'AI can help students with assignments but risks "metacognitive laziness" and a 17% underperformance in exams'. OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 via Policy Commons policycommons.net/artifacts/42... #ai #edtech

Skills, advocacy and the Libraries Alliance. Richard Ovenden of The Bodleian, University of Oxford in the latest CILIP podcast www.cilip.org.uk/page/infopro

How independent libraries sustain culture journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Kirsten Loach and Jennifer Rowley, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Do universities recognise their library's contribution as an enabler to the research environment in the Research Excellence Framework (REF)? #REF29 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Claire Pike, Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes, The Journal of Academic Librarianship

Invest in your personal development through Professional Registration #CILIPCommunity www.cilip.org.uk/news/718019/...

Groups of young readers of any age can start reading books nominated for The Carnegies now carnegies.co.uk/take-part/ #TheCarnegies #NYoR #GoAllIn

The CILIP Scotland conference on 1-2 June is open for registrations now, book now as last year sold out www.cilips.org.uk/cilips-annua... #CILIPS #CILIPCommunity

So many great free events on so many different topics being put on by all parts of the #CILIPCommunity 2-6 March, take a look, sign up to any you fancy, and let others know www.cilip.org.uk/page/Members...

Jolly right too. Rebuking President Trump, Congress votes to maintain most of the federal funding for libraries, museums, and archives. www.everylibrary.org/congress2026... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

The Carnegies 2026 longlists for writing and illustration are now live, get reading & shadowing! carnegies.co.uk/medals/ #Carnegies #Carnegies2026 See you at #LBF #LBF26 for the shortlists...

A range of IFLA grants and awards to help UK professionals get to WLIC 2026 in Busan this August 2026.ifla.org/congress-par... #WLIC

Nice to have the chance to discuss the National Year of Reading with Books For Keeps #GoAllIn #NYoR #reading #literacy booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/u...

CILIP members (especially early career professionals) can apply for a funded place to IFLA Busan 2026 www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou... via CILIP International Library and Information Group (#ILIG) #WLIC26

The STM open access dashboard, UK data 2014-2024 (built on Scopus data) stm-assoc.org/oa-dashboard... Do you think #AI a challenge or opportunity for #OpenAccess (and why)?

Two great publishing job vacancies going at Facet Publishing, Production Manager and Sales & Marketing Executive informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/united-... #PublishingJobs #JobsInPublishing

Lovely two days hosting IFLA President Leslie Weir & DG Sharon Memis, with key meetings across the UK library, knowledge & information sector and with partners, on the build up to #WLIC27 #IFLA100 #CILIP150 www.cilip.org.uk/news/718963/...

It's not just about the tech. A New Age of Nations: Power and Advantage in the AI Era #ai www.rand.org/pubs/perspec... via @RANDCorporation

'human oversight cannot scale with agent autonomy and must be replaced by built-in technical safeguards.' Singapore Launches New Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI | IMDA via PolicyCommons #ai

Great to celebrate the hundreds of apprentices across the library, knowledge & information supported by CILIP Pathways over the past six years - employers can get in touch with the team to find out more www.cilip.org.uk/page/CILIPPa... #NAW2026

'there is declining support for open-data mandates ... probably because researchers still think they're not getting sufficient recognition and credit for sharing data' #OpenData policycommons.net/artifacts/42...

Love this. But also, here's why you need librarians. BBC News - The retired Indian factory worker who built a library of two million books www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As a Northerner in London you're always the outsider, wish this had been at University of York when I was www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Northern Soc helps 'outnumbered' northerners #EyUp

Great to hear Queen Camilla's only question at the National Year of Reading launch in Scotland was about libraries, building on her wish last summer for more to be opened (rather than closed) www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur... #NYR #NYoR #GoAllIn

Are AI summaries eating up all trustworthy information, as well as the business models & incentives for humans to keep creating it (including but far beyond scholarly publishers)? Charlie Rapple of Kudos & UKSG #AI #EthicalAI scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/04/r...

'what is happening macroeconomically is that distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete' www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058... #AI

BBC News - Over 750 free trees to be given out at libraries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #GreenLibraries

Looking forward to discussing AI with knowledge managers and other information professionals at #TBCL in April secure.infotoday.com/RegForms/TBC... #AI #EthicalAI

British Library boss: We’re still healing emotionally from 2023 hack www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art... was good to meet Dr Silver recently, such a vital institution

National Data Library: progress update, January 2026

Excited to be in the English PEN salon at #LBF speaking about Freedom to Read in the National Year of Reading: Facing Removal Requests and Supporting Targeted Communities www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer... #LBF26 #IntellectualFreedom

In Aug 2027, over 4k library & info professionals are coming to the UK - join the National Committee that will make the most of that opportunity, for the UK, the UK profession, professionals around the world - and all the users we serve www.cilip.org.uk/general/cust... #WLIC #CILIP150 #IFLA100

Registration's open for #WLIC2026 in Busan, South Korea 2026.ifla.org CILIP members get a £178 discount, volunteers can apply now, and poster pitches are open till 8 April 2026.ifla.org/call-for-pos... Looking forward to seeing UK colleagues there #IFLA

Get ready for the National Year of Reading with must-have books on literacy & reading from CILIP's Facet Publishing email-cilip.org.uk/cr/AQi40xMQv... #NYR #NYoR #Literacy CILIP members get a discount of course

Important work on how generative AI is impacting the novel www.ifow.org/news-article... #GenAI #AI #AIIP Dr Clementine Collett, BRAID

Get in touch with the team running this free event if you're interested in digital ethics and responsible AI www.techuk.org/what-we-deli... #AI #ResponsibleAI #EthicalAI #BRAID

Nice to see CILIP's #GreenLibraries inspiring the Swedish Week17 sustainable libraries initiative, tied into the UNSDGs db2030.dk/week17/

£27m Creative Industries Clusters: round two www.ukri.org/opportunity/... different types of library & information services will underpin the winning bids, but round three should explicitly focus on this essential infrastructure

New LGA report on 'The role of sport, arts and culture in supporting community cohesion'. 77 references to sport, 3 to libraries = a missed opportunity, especially after Spellow www.local.gov.uk/topics/cultu...

Investing in libraries as essential infrastructure delivers strong returns, quality of life & a dynamic economy. But funding is short-term and grant-based, limiting its ability to scale, & they sit outside current asset categories & govt appraisal models report.wearecreative.uk/culture-as-g...

'ready access to a public library ... It was paradise. Books made me' www.ft.com/content/a3c3... Lee Child via @ft

A fantastic Member Network Forum at Lambeth Palace Library, with 25 of our Chairs. V. much the beating heart of the #CILIPCommunity www.cilip.org.uk/page/community & note the £178 WLIC discount

'Having a public library within walking distance ... made me who I am' Malorie Blackman backs the National Year of Reading | Books | The Guardian

See #CILIP's response to the new #Libraries funding announcement from the Government⤵️

Good to hear there'll be detail tomorrow on £114m Arts Everywhere Fund, inc. for public libraries, British Library North, National Poetry Centre & other local & regional projects, beyond London, a drop in the ocean though given what's happened since 2010 www.artsindustry.co.uk/news/3457-ca...

Fascinating session by Stuart Hamilton on the national Irish public library strategy The Library Is The Place. Interesting 'inform & inspire' were 2/3 words we also boiled down the impact of the profession to for our own strategy Empowering Impact www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJ4... LGMA ADELE

Thanks for highlighting this. Great to have our #CILIP Prison Libraries Group contributing to this important research plus quotes from their chair, Victoria Barnett, and our CEO, @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social 👇

Library & other information professionals curate knowledge & information to the benefit of all of us, their vital role - alongside other professions - was recognised in this 'public-good curators' research, covered in these 3 podcasts www.choice360.org/podcasts/cat... The Authority File podcast

Despite prison libraries being a statutory right, 68% of prisoners don't feel that people in their prison get enough access to the library and 25% are not able to access it at all www.thebookseller.com/news/most-pr...