The Early-Bird window for the MDG Conference 2026 #MetaFutures closes on 14/11/25! Our programme is looking great: bit.ly/47KFNpG We have sessions on #AI and #cataloguing, #training & #management, #collaborative #metadata, #LinkedData #openaccess & #research plus a whole day on #RDA! Don't miss out!

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together. Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price. nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November. Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies. Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics

Poet Wilfred Owen died #OTD in 1918, a week short of the Armistice: this is the statue of him in his home town, Oswestry. Britten used Owen's poetry in his 1962 War Requiem and the following year Owen's brother Harold sent him a manuscript of Wilfred's "Anthem For Doomed Youth" in appreciation.

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…

I’m thrilled to be able to share with you a project I’ve been working on this year. Intimate Histories, a series of 5 essays I’ve written and recorded about the antidote to ‘Great Man History’ is dropping on BBC Radio 4 (and i player) from the 3rd of Nov at 11:45 each morning.

Fall of the Leaf, 1934 By printmaker Sybil Andrews (Canadian (born England) Color linocut on Japanese paper #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Thanks Anne - we are looking forward to co-presenting with MUP on the successful collaboration between the University of Manchester Library and Manchester University Press to produce, enhance, and disseminate high-quality book metadata. - nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #metadatamatters #NAGwebinarweek

I am so excited for #NAGwebinarweek 🤩 Two metadata / cataloguing sessions: @emmabooth.bsky.social and Beth Price (@uomlibrary.bsky.social) and @manchesterup.bsky.social on Wed 19th and me on Thursday 20th. FREE and open to all: nag.org.uk/events/ 🙏 to Jennie Hillyard and the Executive Committee🤩

Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is: Exhibition catalogues for newbies to art collections and/or cataloguing! Presenters: Amy Staniforth, Yamuna Ravindran & Margaret Robinson. Tuesday 28th October 13:00-14:00. Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #cataloguing #metadata #libraries

Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...

Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is "Linked data, Ontologies & Entity reconciliation" with Fran Frenzel, 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1) on Thurs 16/10/25. Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #metadata #linkeddata #cataloguing #training

The first webinar in our Practical Cataloguing series today! MDG Chair Will Peaden will present "Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing" at 13:00 (GMT+1) If you have registered but have not received a link to join the webinar please contact [email protected] We will do some live posts here.

The latest issue of Catalogue & Index is out. Some really great articles by colleagues - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... 🙏 C&I editors Karen Pierce and Fran Frenzel for including my checklist for non-Marc cataloguing - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #cataloguing #cataloging #metadata

@georgetakei.bsky.social is the 2025 Honorary Chair of #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5–11), joined by youth advocate Iris Mogul. Together they’ll spotlight the harms of censorship. https://www.ala.org/news/2025/09/legendary-actorauthoractivist-george-takei-named-honorary-chair-banned-books-week-2025

Frida Kahlo, 1937 by fashion photographer Toni Frissell #womensart

The Prado, national art gallery of Spain, founded in 1819, only hosted its first solo exhibition of a female artist's work in 2016, 17thc painter Clara Peeters (her work below), not untypical of many major galleries across the world.... #WomensArtHistory

The 'liber divinorum operum' of St Hildegard of Bingen, c1500, in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library. Hildegard was a C12 abbess, mystic and composer whose work has become remarkably popular in recent years. She was canonised in 2012, and today is her feast.

A detail from: “The White Rose and the Red Rose” the 1902 panel by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. A beautiful print to be enjoyed always: duille.com/whiteroseturin

On this, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, a c1500 woodcut depicting St Bridget of Sweden venerating the crucifixion. Photographed in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library, London.

It was a pleasure to have Prof Karen Snow, Carissa Chew @carissachew.bsky.social, Dr Karen Pierce @darklecat.bsky.social, & Helen Griffiths @helgriff.bsky.social presenting on Cataloguing Ethics as part of a our AGM Event yesterday. Thank you to all the speakers and attendees (online & in-person).

South London's best-loved bookshop was heaving today. Bought some much-needed books, obviously.

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.

Need a book? Bookseller Crow excellent indie bookshop proprietor Jonathan is gravely ill and they need all the business they can get. booksellercrow.co.uk They’re on bookshop.org too.

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

LeVar Burton: literary hero! ❤️💪 magazine.1000libraries.com/levar-burton...

Whistlejacket: acclaimed 18th Century thoroughbred racehorse, owned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham & mentioned in Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer; powerful life-size painting c. 1762 by George Stubbs, preeminent English equine artist, born #OTD 1724. National Gallery

Accidentally took the mathematically perfect shot of our local cat.

Happy Sunday 🌿🌸 #FlowersOnSunday #bloomscrolling #Stunday

JMW Turner visited Fingal’s Cave on the Scottish island of Staffa in 1831 to record scenery for Lord of the Isles, an illustrated collection of poems by Sir Walter Scott. Fingal’s Cave was named after the hero of the poems of Ossian, a pastiche of northern myths and legends

'I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned' -Yayoi Kusama #WomensArt #MondayMotivation

Vanessa Bell, Flowers on a Balcony, c.1924 English painter #WomensArt

Here in Sweden, the VAT on books and magazines are low, 6%, but in Denmark they're going to abolish the VAT all together. Good, because in a time where movies, games, pods and audio books are available anytime, there's need to make it easier for people to read. 📚 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Elizabeth Blackadder, Amaryllis and Cats, 1987 Scottish artist #WomensArt

Sketched in 1920, Edvard Munch depicts two figures picking apples most likely in the garden of his house Ekley in Skøyen. He painted a number of watercolours where the depiction of nature was not just a backdrop for these scenarios but a subject in its own right.

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

In the bookshop this morning: PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.” CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down * CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”

Thanks to Anastasia Kerameos and her British Film Institute library colleagues for hosting a visit from CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group yesterday. Really inspiring to see their Application Profile for Official RDA. There was also an overview of the BFI collections and time in the Mediatheque.

I love how my phone's metadata gives 'River Cam' as location of photos taken in the CUL manuscripts room.

📣 New podcast! In this episode of The Writing Life podcast, award-winning writer Val McDermid shares insights on writing contemporary crime fiction, and the importance of learning patience as a writer. Produced by National Centre for Writing. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/kWAhMQP

Happy #BookLoversDay As the late, great Groucho Marx once observed: "Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." Pic: Oscar Marzaroli, outside John Smith & Son, in St Vincent Street, 1962.

Happy 350th birthday to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich! the foundation stone was laid at 3:14 pm on 10 August 1675 (OS). We know because the astronomer there, John Flamsteed, drew up a horoscope. See more here teleskopos.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a... #histSTM #histsci

Happy 100th @natlibscot.bsky.social Thank you to all the librarians & cleaners & accountants & coffee-shop folk & all the other staff & volunteers who take care of Scotland’s stories & open our doors to the world. Proud to be a Centenary Champ with Val McDermid. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...