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Reading, writing and cataloguing books 📚
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Colette Townend
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I helped write up this month’s
@wikipedia.org
@wikimediauk.bsky.social
GLAM UK newsletter entry featuring Wiki relevant bits of
@cilipmdg.bsky.social
#Metafutures
conference & more! See
outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Ne...
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GLAM/Newsletter/March 2026/Contents/UK report - Outreach Wiki
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2026/Contents/UK_report
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group
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Last few places remaining for our World Cafe event in Cardiff on Subject Analysis & LCSH 🌍☕️ 📍Cardiff University 📆21/04/26 🕙10:30-16;00 🌐
tinyurl.com/World-Cafe-C...
#metadata
#cataloguing
#subjectheadings
#EDI
#critcat
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Alison Fisk
2 days ago
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago! Imagine the
#IceAge
artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Tom Gauld
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My latest books cartoon for
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Portfolio due on Friday. Working on final few sketches of my houseplants. Euphorbia trigona in the wild (graphite) and on my windowsill (ink). Succulents module, Natural History Studies at Aber (online) 💚
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Shabana Mir
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Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).
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The Kimono Gallery
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Rabbits on Bicycles Artist Unknown 1904, Japan Color lithograph; ink on card stock Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards
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This Many Years Ago
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195 years ago, on the 11th of April 1831, the Lewis chessmen were first exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland shortly after being rediscovered. The pieces wee made between 1150 and 1200 and commonly believed to have been made in Norway.
#otd
#history
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Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group
5 days ago
Fancy a visit to Drawing Room, London?
drawingroom.org.uk
@cilip.bsky.social
Members can join a
@cilipmdg.bsky.social
visit on Wed 20th May 2026 hosted by Drawing Room Librarian Yamuna Ravindran - full details at:
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#libraries
#visits
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ꜱ ᴛ ᴀ ʀ ʙ ʟ ᴏ ᴏ ᴅ
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The 2,000-year-old marble head of the Greek goddess Aphrodite discovered in the ancient city of Aizanoi in western Turkey.
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Italian artist Paola Pivi, known for her life-size sculptures of polar bears in vivid colours
#WomensArt
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The Public Domain Review
5 days ago
Happy
#UnicornDay
! A fine time to delve into @the_manticore_'s essay "Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn", which explores a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy....
publicdomainreview.org/essay/g...
#NationalUnicornDay
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David Benedict
6 days ago
@iammilliam.bsky.social
Some splendid news.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize
Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/08/british-novelist-gwendoline-riley-wins-windham-campbell-prize
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Digital Brain
7 days ago
It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.
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Association for Scottish Literature
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“I could never fathom how a man dares to lift up his voice to preach in a cathedral. What is he to say that will not be an anti-climax?” —Robert Louis Stevenson, AN INLAND VOYAGE (1878) Available free online via
@gutenberg.org
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/534
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The Public Domain Review
6 days ago
Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. Learn more about his life and see a collection of his stunning astronomical art here:
https://buff.ly/2ENtY5g
#eclipse
#solareclipse
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alice
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Nest Builder - digital painting wood pigeons are so unbelievably *round* ! I had to triple check every shape I drew against the reference because it just didn't make sense
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Alison Fisk
7 days ago
Minoan amphora with floral design. 3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸 From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
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@cilip.bsky.social
shared the recording of the
@cilipmdg.bsky.social
contribution to Members Fest 2026: presentations by MDG colleagues Will Peaden, Ceilan Hunter-Green and Fran Frenzel. Free and worth a listen:
www.cilip.org.uk/page/Members...
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"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born". The inscription on Frida's Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947
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Jane Casey
8 days ago
Murder, murder everywhere, even at the windmill museum.
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Melissa Terras
8 days ago
“At a time when the rights and freedoms of women are under attack in many countries, the Women’s Library remains a symbol of struggle as well as strength.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency | Editorial
Editorial: The ups and downs of the collection launched by Millicent Fawcett make it an apt symbol of an ongoing struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/03/the-guardian-view-on-the-womens-library-at-100-a-cause-for-celebration-but-not-complacency
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The English Oak Project
9 days ago
So much love in our woodland right now
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Poor Frank Raw
10 days ago
All done, and it will be going to Bude next week.
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Tom Cox
10 days ago
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
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Happy Easter to all who celebrate!
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Elizabeth Blackadder, Tulips, 1998
#WomensArt
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Graham Usher
11 days ago
Awe inspiring new view of our single island planet home captured by Artemis II astronauts travelling around the far side of the moon. We have no planet B.
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Liz Gotauco
14 days ago
The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group
15 days ago
The March 2026 issue of our OA journal
#Catalogue&Index
#C&I
is available at:
journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
This issue focuses on the topics of subject indexing and classification
#changethesubject
#LCSH
#subjectanalysis
#indexing
#metadata
#cataloguing
#libraries
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Anne Welsh
16 days ago
Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), Scottish illustrator, jewellery/fabric designer, one of the artists known as the 'Glasgow Girls'
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Tom Gauld
17 days ago
My cartoon for this week’s
@newscientist.com
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Melissa Terras
25 days ago
Loving revisiting
#ThisLife
. It was essential all-flat viewing when I was an undergraduate - they all seemed so grown up and glamorous (and rich!) Quintessentially 1990s. Now they all seem so young and lost…! Still great
#BBC
drama. And Anna is still an absolute Scottish icon.
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ALCS
23 days ago
This week over 100,000 ALCS members will receive their share of £34m. Let's celebrate the value of human creativity, something that isn't going anywhere 💡📖🌳
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Luke Turner
22 days ago
Happy ALCS day to all those in the writing community who gratefully celebrate this annual dump of a seemingly randomly allocated pile of cash, the origins of which remain opaque (something to do with photocopying) 🙏
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Postcard From The Past
22 days ago
Many thanks for the new gecko.
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The Public Domain Review
22 days ago
Does each species have an optimal form? An ideal beauty that existed prior to the Fall? @margocsy on the search for a menagerie of perfect prelapsarian geometry:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/elephants-horses-and-the-proportions-of-paradise
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LAI CMG
22 days ago
For those signed up for Thursday's RDA training with Anne Welsh, of BeginningCataloguing, the LAI have awarded LAI CPD accreditation for all attendees.
@laibluesky.bsky.social
@annewelsh.bsky.social
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LAI CMG
22 days ago
Not long to wait for our one-day online training with Anne Welsh, of BeginningCataloguing and hosted by the LAICMG, that demystifies Resource Description and Access (RDA). Thursday, March 26th 10 am - 4 pm
www.eventbrite.ie/e/introducti..
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@annewelsh.bsky.social
@laibluesky.bsky.social
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Tom Gauld
24 days ago
A spring cartoon for
@newscientist.com
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The Public Domain Review
25 days ago
For the first day of spring ... the glorious print of tulips from Robert John Thornton's stunning “Temple of Flora” (1807):
publicdomainreview.org/shop/search/?...
Read more about the Thornton's work here in Martin Kemp's essay here:
publicdomainreview.org/essay/s...
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Katrina Naomi
27 days ago
Thanks to
@sophieherx.bsky.social
for a fab shout out to 'dance as if' (published by
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
) in the current issue of
@mslexia.bsky.social
I'm delighted to be described as 'a champion of collaboration and cross pollination across artforms'.
#danceasif
#collaboration
#poetry
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Association for Scottish Literature
28 days ago
“Glasgow’s cityscapes become both newly-colonised sci fi planets & Escher-esque lithographs… the impassive wit of the city & its surroundings is often on display” —Heather Parry in residence at the
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
& the
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
heatherparry.substack.com/p/in-the-mar...
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in the margins: obsessive threads
from the archives of Alasdair Gray and Agnes Owens
https://heatherparry.substack.com/p/in-the-margins-obsessive-threads
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29 days ago
Winifred Nicholson (1893 – 1981), Modernist British painter known for her still life work especially
#WomensArt
#Spring
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‘The famed ballerina said that it's "often mistaken when something is popular that it's meaningful or more impactful," but made clear, "There's a reason that the opera and ballet have been around for over 400 years."’
people.com/misty-copela...
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Misty Copeland Brings Ballerina-Coded Tutu Look to 2026 Oscars Red Carpet, Proves People Do Care About Ballet
Misty Copeland wore a ballet-inspired outfit to the 2026 Oscars on the heels of her clap back at Timothée Chalamet, who recently made a comment that "no one cares about" opera or ballet. Copeland is p...
https://people.com/misty-copeland-wears-ballerina-coded-outfit-2026-oscars-red-carpet-photos-11926632
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Pasquinel
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New York Magazine
30 days ago
Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the
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about 1 month ago
UK sculptor Heather Jansch (1948-2021), known especially for life-size driftwood horse sculptures,
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group
about 1 month ago
It's
#RDAday
! And our final day of the MDG
#Conference
in Bristol
#MetaFutures
. The programme is available at
tinyurl.com/Cilip-MDG
#metadata
#discovery
#standards
#cataloguing
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