New on the Artefacto blog - Announcing AI for Libraries – a new weekly newsletter www.artefacto.org.uk/ai-for-libra...

Unless you do a job that is actually properly useful or are a professional sender of life-changing my good news, after 3pm on a Friday you can almost def save all your outgoing external emails to draft and send them on Monday.

"With this book, I wanted to highlight how one would go on this journey of knowledge gathering just to realize that the ‘conventional’ ways of doing that through a library or archive might not work with Indigenous forms of knowledge". medium.com/everylibrary...

Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag was one of those super influential A Book Apart titles for me with lots of best practices and advice that remains relevant. And it's now available for free! accessibilityforeveryone.site

“Because your curiosity doesn’t always fit into keywords…” 🙄 blog.google/products-and...

welp, this sounds terrible techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...

Building a Culture of Measuring #Impact in #Libraries

"I believe information literacy is one of the most transformative skills a person can develop right now". cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/the-skill-...

As Reddit starts blocking the mobile site , the cycle continues...(Also 'AI is the first vertical' 🫠 )

new Live Laugh Love dropped

"One thing that emerged quickly and clearly from our conversation was that digital transformation has less to do with technology or tools and more to do with people". @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social on digital transformation & libraries www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

Current reading/pondering - On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi...

New on the Artefacto blog - Five for Friday - AI policy examples for libraries www.artefacto.org.uk/five-for-fri...

Some great recommendations in this post by @stephenfrancoeur.bsky.social www.stephenfrancoeur.com/beatingthebo...

New on the Artefacto blog, a libraryskills AI update www.artefacto.org.uk/finding-ai-l...

Gathering Evidence of Library Impact: A Practical Guide to Asking a Good Question #libraries #ImpactAssessment

New on the ImpactKit blog - a guide to asking better questions when collecting impact evidence for your library impactkit.com/blog/gatheri...

Love to see all these stories from library users featured so prominently outside the state library of nsw

📢 The Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee is calling for instructors to run pilot workshops for 14 lessons currently in Alpha status. To move them toward Beta and then adoption as Library Carpentry lessons, they need the Carpentries community to test the lessons in real-world settings. 🙏

We built a thing impactkit.com/blog/announc...

"When was the last time a piece of technology sparked joy for you? When it surprised and invited you in, not through its efficiency but through delight?" Between this & reading up on the Society for Hopeful Technologists, a cautiously optimistic start to 2026 interactions.acm.org//archive/vie...

Artefacto's top library links for 2025 is now out, all the most clicked on links from our #libraries newsletter www.artefacto.org.uk/top-library-...

Vendor-led librarianshit, innit

So exited to see this come to fruition!

One day to go before we go LIVE with our new professional development training programme: New Skills for the Future Library Leader. The self-paced training focuses on key topics: Digital Skills & Futures Literacy. Watch our intro video & module info: https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/futurelibraryleader

Don't know that it's an anti or pro kind of thing but definitely think a healthy scepticism should be a requirement for teaching AI right now acrlog.org/2025/10/20/t...

Ahead of the November launch of our new training programme: New Skills for the Future Library Leader we're inviting you to register your interest. Open to emerging leaders in England public libraries. Register your interest today! www.cilip.org.uk/futurelibraryleader

Sad to see that Public Libraries News has come to an end, Ian has been an amazing source of info about public libraries in the UK over the past 15 (!) years www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2025/09/afte...

Monday read: The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop www.the-londoner.co.uk/scarlett-let...

Metroteka opened this week in the Kondratowicza M2 line metro station in the Warsaw, with two reading areas for adults and children as well as a space for public readings and events. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

So far resisted this game because it sounds a bit too much like work. Or at least what people assume library work looks like anyway 🙃 theconversation.com/tiny-booksho...

Not just because our blog post is in this edition, your regular reminder how amazing Public Libraries News and Ian Anstice's work on this resource is www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2025/08/the-...

Moomintroll at the library! Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library hyperallergic.com/1030064/tove...

oh ffs boingboing.net/2025/07/24/s...

Have just completed a Koha upgrade for a library. This is something that I've done sporadically over the years so feeling particularly grateful atm for all those kind folks who contribute to open source documentation in any way 🙏

issue 159 of Artefacto's #libraries newsletter is now out. Sharing all the latest from the library sector, incl. the end of Open Access Button and InstantILL, a new value proposition for academic libraries, how to promote library databases & more Visit libraries.newslet.org for this issue & more

Nice! a new, terminal cheat sheet by @b0rk.jvns.ca. the debugging manifest is still one of my favourite things wizardzines.com

Photos of some different kinds of tiny libraries to enjoy on a dreary monday, Indonesion microlibraries and some community libraries in rural Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

"Library branches not only create important community spaces. They can help reclaim and create new places from community". Great new post from @copystar.bsky.social librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/05/28/t...

I mean it's definitely not what it used to be but this is still sad news. Was still my default read it later app and I know a lot of people use Pocket with Kobo eReaders support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...

Helsinki University Library managed to get 3,536 (!) responses to the library’s customer survey www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Art pieces integrated throughout the library space include the Underwater Mural - huge octopus arms emerging from a bookshelf & holding water-related books written by local authors www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

This investigation into the ‘crime against ornithology’ in Charlie’s Angels is the best kind of random deep dive slate.com/culture/2025...

Always an interesting read. And always disconcerting how few vendors there are in libraries operating under a confusing array of names americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/05/01/2...

This exhibit @euilibrary.bsky.social is produced by Tactical Tech and DensityDesign Lab at Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with IFLA blogs.eui.eu/library/supe...

Our newsletter has been a bit sporadic lately but issue #255 is now out, bringing together lots of interesting & useful things from across the library sector(s) libraries.newslet.org

There's still time to apply for the Next Library Changemaker Award www.nextlibrary.net/next-library...

They had me at "How do spooky Muppets guide Scrooge through transformative learning?" information-literacy.blogspot.com/2025/02/peda...

Good time to remember about Archive Today as well as @harvardlil.bsky.social's Data Vault tool cogdogblog.com/2025/02/arch...

There are so many potential ways for users to discovery, navigate and explore collections - this is a neat visualisation of books using ISBNs with a bookshelf-view and the ability to 'fly' to a book phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/vi...