@bibsoc.bsky.social Might you be able to give either or both of these posts a push? Volvelle-tastic event at the RCP next week. bsky.app/profile/rcpm... bsky.app/profile/girl...

Had a lovely evening yesterday @natlibscot.bsky.social celebrating the launch of the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, vol 1, edited by @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social et al. My mission: to get as many contributor signatures as possible.

word is out! contributors have been getting their copies while I was on annual leave and EHOBS v. 1 (parts 1 AND 2) are now out in the wild! Huge thanks to @edinburghup.bsky.social , my co-editors and ALL the contributors to this multi-decade endeavour edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-e...

✨I could not be more excited to see what arrived in the post today. Not only because it is good to see 2 chapters reach the light of day, but because of the immense scholarship that has gone into this enterprise, with 69 scholars &2 vols my hat goes off to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social & other editors✨

So pleased to see this out in the world! 2 volumes, over 60 contributors (incl. a small one by me) - a huge achievement for the four editors congratulations to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social et al for getting this over the line!

Just back from CERL Manuscripts WG meeting at ZB Solothurn. With WG Chair @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social and ZB's Ian Holt, MSS experts from AT/CH/DE/DK/HU/IE/IT/LI/NL/NO/PL/SE/UKdiscussed standards/thesauri, HTR, training needs, relation with archivists/conservators, collaboration. Join us next time!

so glad to see the repatriation work of my colleagues continue to produce solid relationships and equitable results: www.ed.ac.uk/news/native-...

look how /gorgeous/ Ruth Nichols-Pike's linocut work is that we commissioned to advertise this year's book collecting prize. Printed small and large, it is a thing of beauty. Here's her website ruthnicholspikedesign.co.uk and here's the book collecting competition: library.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...

📢 Call for Papers | CERL Manuscript Librarians Working Group Collections Across Repositories: Manuscripts & Their Custodians 📅 10 Mar 2026 | 📍 Solothurn 🇨🇭 20-min papers & 45-min roundtables welcome. 🗓 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026 📧 [email protected]

Amazing collections, lovely people. Come and spend a year doing research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Job Opportunity! We're looking for a Graduate Trainee Archivist. #archives www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Job Opportunity! We're looking for a Graduate Trainee Librarian #libraryjob www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Just saying

the final proofs are in, the cover artwork signed off & we now have an official publication date - so it feels time to finally start celebrating publicly the forthcoming, incredibly long-overdue Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, v. 1: from the earliest times to 1707 published by EUP in 2026

breathtaking dog walk this morning

happy 3 years adoptoversary to Mr K

the call is now open for our next round of @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Heritage Collections Research Fellows! - find out more here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...

Excellent library job in Cambridge.👇

oh man, literally my professional life and my hobby are colliding! Interesting library job at Games Workshop! jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...

after more than 15 years living and working here, I'm now officially a citizen of this Kingdom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

JOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

even when things are getting really tough at work, it's stories like this, a culmination of over two years of relationship building and planning, that keep me going. So proud of my team for helping the Sikh community celebrate a shared heritage: www.bbc.com/news/article...

our nêpe is still crêpe

Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...

starting off a week of annual leave by palette cleansing with this lovely miniature..not quite done, but getting there!

every year the myriad of teams that make up the University of Edinburgh's Library do amazing things, and every year we get a little bit better at communicating about those things. Very happy to see ReConnect 2025, our annual report, go public today library.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

We've been working on our new Digital Collections Platform - launching formally in 2026. Thanks @emmahorrell.bsky.social for all your UX guidance and support! blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-comm...

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

finished off this big fella this evening, pretty happy with the results 🤖🖌️

spent an hour cursing to myself quietly late last night as I glued bits of old speaker wire and garden wire to a plastic robot... not done yet, but happy with taking a chance to get this effect.

went to see Julie Brook's Tide Line just beyond Cellardyke tidal pool last weekend. The dog was just as excited as we were...

This is one of the lesser known (but tragic) consequences of Gen AI. It’s not just about theft of IP, which is usually mentioned, it’s about damage to the information infrastructure of underfunded archives, libraries and museums etc. with long term consequences for them and for researchers.

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue. The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

managed a wee work trip down the mound to the RSA to see the Goldsworthy exhibition before it shuts with my co-director and all around copilot Jacky

very pleased to be offering an open ended Archives Cataloguing post working with the University of Edinburgh's wide and deep literary archives. please do share with anyone interested! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

despite everything going on, I'm so happy to be able to keep creating jobs in the heritage sector, check out the following listings for: Assistant Musical Instruments Curator: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August

Today our project is linked on the front page of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's website! Our fantastic postdocs @hagenilda.bsky.social and @sharonhoward.bsky.social get a well-deserved mention: www.ed.ac.uk/news/memoirs... #EarlyModern #DigiHums #BookHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

lots to digest in this piece - including the real cost of realising the intrinsic & data potentials in our collections. The work needed to catalogue, digitise, contextualise and curate massive historic archives and collections is still very much a human resources (and not AI) driven endeavour.

“Facing up to the past is crucial. But the real challenge for institutions and the societies they are part of is to act in ways informed by new knowledge” - @theguardian.com editorial 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇🏾 #Edinburghracereport www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The real issue is change’: @proftjcurry.bsky.social - Edinburgh’s first Black philosophy professor, on racism and reform 'How do you create leagues of Black thinkers and clinicians and doctors and engineers and artists that fill the gap of what were lost...' 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UCC Library is recruiting a Head of Special Collections & Archives. Lead the development, digitisation, and promotion of our rare books, manuscripts & archives. Apply by 12pm, 19 Aug: www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

nearing the end of a great holiday, complete with a tidy stack of now-reads ♥️📚

Glad to see this work, which I had the honour to advise on and support, is breaking today... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It includes, amongst other things, information about forthcoming events in Nicosia (organised by @nconstantinidou.bsky.social ) and Rome ( @rozanneversendaal.bsky.social ) you can sign up to receive the Flyleaf as a pdf by emailing the project (address to be found here: sammelband.hypotheses.org)

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this

This is the first article I've read about the library of congress firings that actually makes sense to me. Speculating: 1. Musk/Thiel/DOGE wing wanted to eviscerate copyright to train AI 2. To this end they convinced Trump that LOC was disloyal and pushed to get Hayden + Perlmutter fired…