@ruthburns.bsky.social
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Library person, bibliovore, retro gamer, goth, sporadic crafter
pinned post!
Having reached the aftermath of my book challenge I have a few reflections on how it has gone.
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Buckinghamshire Archives
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Don't steal pies this Christmas.
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K.B. Spangler
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Right! Links to preorder, should you need them! And as the book comes out in March, if you want to give a gift for Christmas, we are also giving away FREE printable Molly files!
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group
8 days ago
Today's Practical Cataloguing webinar is on "Enhancing metadata quality : a practical introduction to
#MARC
data cleaning using
#Python
and
#RDA
principles" with Dalia Kbar, Collection Development Librarian at the American University in Dubai.
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing
#metadata
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The University of Manchester Library
13 days ago
Announcement: 🏆The John Rylands Library has been awarded the FX Award for Museum or Exhibition Space 2025, triumphing in a highly competitive international category. 😀
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/the-john-rylands-library-wins-prestigious-fx-award/
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Andrew Walsh
21 days ago
The other one I've only run on request before for individual library services, and is "supporting neurodivergent library users", that's on 27th Feb. I'll open bookings for them next week, so just a "hold the date" today for anyone interested!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975823292...
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Supporting neurodivergent library users webinar - Feb 2025
Want to better understand and support your neurodivergent (ND) library users? This webinar will help get you started.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975823292656?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Andrew Walsh
21 days ago
Sneak peak at a couple of webinars I've just set up to run in Feb. One I've run before is "Supporting ND colleagues" - running that one again on 16th Feb.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975823292...
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Supporting neurodivergent library users webinar - Feb 2025
Want to better understand and support your neurodivergent (ND) library users? This webinar will help get you started.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975823292656?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Dr Eleanor Janega
22 days ago
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite. But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
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The Museum of English Rural Life
22 days ago
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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Alasdair Beckett-King
26 days ago
An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information. Tickets:
www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
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Emma Booth (she/her)
23 days ago
And the recording of the
#NAGWebinarWeek
presentation on
#Metadata
in
#Partnership
is now available!
nag.org.uk/development/...
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Michael Burchert
6 months ago
(This is the temperature after 3 minutes, it started at 21 degrees for all of the insulation materials.)
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Emma Mitchell
24 days ago
I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds 20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20 Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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Grey skies and motivational graffiti along the Huddersfield Narrow canal.
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Amy Rae Hill
25 days ago
A cat enjoying the view of stars being born 🌌
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Rachel Coldicutt
26 days ago
I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies.
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11-nine-risks-caused-by-ai-notetakers
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Lance Eaton
29 days ago
thanks! The text of the defense along with the slide deck for the defense can be found here:
www.byanyothernerd.com/2024/12/the-...
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The PhD Chronicles: The Defense Text
Thoughts on books, audiobooks, comics, running, higher education, teaching, pop culture, open access, & artificial intelligence from Lance Eaton
https://www.byanyothernerd.com/2024/12/the-phd-chronicles-defense-text.html
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The University of Manchester Library
30 days ago
Teaching in Semester 2? Update your taught course recommendations in Reading Lists Online as soon as possible. Remember always click ‘Submit changes to the Library'
https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/services/teaching-services/reading-lists/preparing-course-materials
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Dr Sam Hirst
about 1 month ago
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
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Abigail Goben
about 1 month ago
This goes for scholars too. I've had conferences try to get me to agree that they can record and resell my presentation forever and that the materials now belong to them The Medical Library Association contracts are the worst I've ever rejected 📚(and yes I've told them that, I tried multiple times)
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Academic Libraries North (ALN)
about 1 month ago
This week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update is now available. Lots to look at including a last opportunity to join the first Frontline Forum of the academic year, this time on use of social media, and a last call for contributions on a green OA event:
academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...
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Academic Libraries North (ALN)
about 2 months ago
This week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update is available at
academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...
. More job opportunities in the region this week, plus details of how to become a mentee on our next mentoring wave, a call for contributions on green OA and some interesting events.
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Staff Development - Academic Libraries North
Our Staff Development Offer Infographic summarises all the great staff development stuff we do to support our member institutions.
https://academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...
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Caroline Ball
about 2 months ago
My latest article, out now in Katina Magazine: 'How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing' Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from
@archiveofourown.org
instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought... Read here →
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
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Yesterday's brief canal walk after the Standedge tunnel trip. The tunnel gate has a design of metal legs going from centre up to the arch of the tunnel to represent the leggers who used to propel boats through pre-electric engines.
about 2 months ago
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Andrew Gifford
5 months ago
All hail Sir Gaslightalot! "Have you tried simply not being seriously unwell?"
#MECFS
#pwME
#LongCovid
#MedicalGaslighting
#Spoonies
#MEDeliveryPlan
#TheGreatestMEdicalScandal
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I was up stupidly early for me this morning and it was an absolutely beautiful day to go spend two hours underground. 1/8
about 2 months ago
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mia ridge
about 2 months ago
Interesting post on the CILIP website: 'AI Wars - The Libraries Fight Back'
www.cilip.org.uk/news/712840/...
Timed for Green Libraries Week, which is examining the environmental impact of AI
www.cilip.org.uk/page/GreenLi...
#AI4LAM
#GreenLibrariesWeek
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AI Wars - The Libraries Fight Back
Open Fifth explains how library management systems are fending off the AI bot attacks… for now.
https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/712840/AI-Wars---The-Libraries-Fight-Back.htm
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Ian Carrillo
about 2 months ago
In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools. AI is another version of colonial extraction.
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National Trust
about 2 months ago
This is a welly good dog.
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Cecilia Tan
2 months ago
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/artificial-intelligence/turn-off-ai-tools-gemini-apple-intelligence-copilot-and-more-a1156421356/
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Emma Booth (she/her)
2 months ago
I was pleased to see this news story shared by my institution to promote the work we have been doing to expand our access to digital archival collections:
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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New collections: widening the range of our digital archives
Significant developments include the completion of a number of online portfolios, notably the high-quality reference material of the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia series and the wide-ranging Global Is...
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/new-collections-widening-the-range-of-our-digital-archives/
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Justin Hancock
2 months ago
The destruction of statutory youth services in the UK, particularly England, is criminal. (F the guardian and better late than never, but not much better). A biography🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris
These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/12/britain-youth-clubs-social-division-polarisation-loneliness
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trickykat
2 months ago
real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism
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Dr Zara Bain
2 months ago
Skeptical of AI transcription services (transloption?)? Want to support a small but fantastic disabled-majority, unapologetically intersectional AND research specialist transcription social enterprise instead? Contact us quoting code SPOOKY10 for a spooky 10% off our definitely all-human services
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup
2 months ago
On the off chance: Does anybody have these two Dorothy L. Sayers books *in these editions* and are willing to part with them for money? I'm finding it impossible to get my eager hands on them.
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CILIP
3 months ago
Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as leading officer, informing the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those identifying as LGBTQ+ or Queer.
informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
3 months ago
YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
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Tanja Bueltmann
3 months ago
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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Small Robots
3 months ago
Time for me to deploy my expertise from having worked with databases of individuals and their data in the public sector: whatever you might imagine will be happening behind the scenes of a digital ID card, the actual reality of that dataset is going to be an information governance nightmare.
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Vagina Museum
3 months ago
When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...
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Samuel Moore
3 months ago
“These companies all advertise these tools as knowing your intent,” Taylor told 404 Media. “Understanding what you meant when you put those terms in. They don’t know. They don’t understand. None of those things are true. There is no technical way these tools can do that.”
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Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
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Emma Booth (she/her)
3 months ago
Joining a SCONUL webinar on "AI in the library supply chain" feat. Dr Sandra Tury Senate House Library and Elly Cope & Alison Hazelaar of University of Leeds Library. Particularly interested in
#AI
in relation to
#metadata
both its utility and its implications for ethics & sustainability.
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Manchester University Press
3 months ago
Call for book proposals! Are you passionate about punk? 🤘 Do you have an idea for a book? 📖 Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶 More details below 👇
#booksky
#punk
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Manchester University Press
3 months ago
Publishing today! Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by
@ruthheholt.bsky.social
and
@joparsons.bsky.social
The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in
#Gothic
texts
bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts
#GothicStudies
Find out more:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/
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The University of Manchester Library
3 months ago
Main Library re-opens, featuring new study spaces at Muriel Stott. Over the summer, the Library has made some exciting upgrades to Main Library - based on what you told us matters most. Find out more about these changes:
ow.ly/vCLa50WQYlp
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C.A. Petrov
3 months ago
Also great! "That's why I think we should fund libraries more. It's not just because they're a great resource, it's because I don't wanna know what librarians will do if we don't give them a place to go."
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐
3 months ago
Um… LEGO just teased a Star Trek set (!), so friendly (definitely unrelated) reminder that I’ll have prints in my shop this Wednesday 😆
stellerarts.com/pages/spectr...
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Matthew Cobb
3 months ago
News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n
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History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/about/projects-initiatives/history-of-molecular-biology-collection/
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
3 months ago
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
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Alice Bennett
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A personal thread about perceived threat vs actual threat, fear and flags, because recent events around asylum seekers in the UK and the flag based responses, and the way they are discussed in the media is really bothering me 1/
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