Want to level up your library career this year? We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme. Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026

Enter The Wiki Science Competition 2025 (UK)! Share science-related images, from labs to landscapes, and help make scientific knowledge more accessible through Wikimedia Commons. Learn more & enter 👇 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons... #WikiScience #WikiScience2025 #WSC2025 #ScienceCompetition

Safe travels to all the #ff2025 #ai4lam visitors from all of us in the British Library Digital Research Team! See you at Fantastic Futures 2026 in Washington D.C. next September!

“Careful Consequence Check” mentioned in the #FF2025 opening keynote by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

Thrilled to be at Fantastic Futures w/@bertspaan.nl to talk about working w/digitized map collections as research data! You can explore VERY large datasets of text from maps with our prototype #dataviz interface at text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev Featuring Rumsey collection maps! #ff2025

Lovely, humane suggestion about adoption of AI from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social in opening #ff2025 keynote: "Don't be creepy and weird."

"FOMO is not a strategy" -- @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social giving me my new mantra for the foreseeable future during this (brilliant!) opening keynote for #ff2025

Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025! Check out the full programme at www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... So excited to hear from Rachel Coldicutt as our opening keynote #FantasticFutures2025

Jeremy Silver, CEO of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social & Neil Fitzgerald kicking off #ff2025 for the hundreds of attendees in person and online

Welcoming a spectacular crowd today for the first day of Fantastic Futures 2025: AI Everywhere, All at Once! Online registrations are open throughout the next two days so if you couldn't make it in person, register to access the livestream! #ai4lam #ff2025 www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...

A fab start to #FF2025 - Rachel's keynote, Megan and Amy's work on AI with the Bodleian and now Lucie Termignon, Simon Zilinskas on comparia.beta.gouv.fr - evaluate AI models by comparing two answers to your questions, open to all! Abstracts www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #FantasticFutures2025

Compar:IA sounds like a great tool. comparia.beta.gouv.fr #ff2025

It's so lovely to see the mastowall fill up with posts about #FF2025 rstockm.github.io/mastowall/?h... #FantasticFutures2025

Wow, folks at the Bodleian using Gemini, NotebookLM, ChatGPT (openai research funding!), CoPilot… #ff2025

Megan Gooch and Amy Warner May on survey results - what staff want their CEO to know about AI, and what they're not telling their CEO! #ff2025

“In bed with AI: the library learnings from working with big tech” by @agneatha.bsky.social & Amy Warner May from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk at #FF2025 bit.ly/4plnmzI

I would say no technology is inherently for austerity (or abundance). Today’s leaning into austerity is driven by the (universalized) desire for “more” rather than “less” imho. Humans don’t have a good track record on “just enough” in anything, but it would be exciting to see that change. #FF2025

It's our favourite conference event in the calendar, and this year, we have the honour of hosting it @BritishLibrary! Fantastic Futures 2025 covering all things AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums begins THIS WEEK! sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #ff2025 #ai4lam

We sold out instantly but fear not, all talks on Thursday and Friday (just check out this outstanding programme www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...) will be livestreamed to registered participants. Remote attendance is free, but you must register in advance for access: www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...

Hello lovely #FF2025 peeps! We wanted to let you know that you can now log in to conftool and book in for any workshop with free spaces. There are also some spaces for Thursday evenings reception - get them while you can!

Job Klaxon! 📢 We are recruiting for the post of Curator, #Tibetan Collections to join a team of specialist curators in the Asian and African Collections Department at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social For more info: ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards

I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. Fully booked onsite but available online: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-en... @bldigischol.bsky.social

We're looking forward to seeing you at UVCON next week! Join us for a half-day of presentations and conversation about the past, present and future of the Universal Viewer. Here's a peek at the schedule

Job Klaxon! 📢 We are recruiting for the post of Lead Curator, East Asian Collections to develop, manage, promote and make accessible the Library’s collections in Japanese and Korean and to lead the associated staff. More info: ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web... @britishlibrary.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to launch our new Humans of AI podcast! Prof. @melissaterras.bsky.social of @transkribus.bsky.social — a cooperative AI platform transforming how libraries, archives, and museums bring history to life. 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/ce0399b5 📺 youtu.be/qK5x4j7jiuQ #AI #CulturalHeritage

We're very excited to have been shortlisted for an OpenUK award, in recognition of our amazing community of developers, managers, testers, curators, and translators. See you at the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social

My topic guide on Digital Sustainability is now out! It includes topics like digitisation, digital preservation, websites, data management, green software & IT, AI and more -- and has recommendations for tutorials, communities of practice and some things to watch and read. #GreenLibrariesWeek

We want YOU for our next UV Community Project! The Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and will be focussing on improving the UV Community website. No coding experience necessary.

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

Our blogs have a new look: bit.ly/BL-Blogs All previously published blogs will be available in our archive, launching in coming weeks. Watch this space for an update on when that goes live.

Registration now open! Join us at The @britishlibrary.bsky.social for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference on the theme of "AI Everywhere, All at Once" 🎉 sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #FF2025 @bldigischol.bsky.social

Now available via our Research Repository: Datasets of digitised Malay and Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social doi.org/10.23636/ghz... A complete set of metadata (catalogue descriptions) for 482 manuscripts. Happy exploring! #openaccess @bldigischol.bsky.social

If you're thinking of a project that includes an Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) component, or if you'd like to know more about this topic, this new paper is for you! Available as open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The #GreenLibraries Week map is live. You can take a sneaky peek at what the British Library and National Library of Scotland have already got planned for this year. Join them on the map - submit your green activities today: www.cilip.org.uk/page/GreenLi...

Our training series "Discover Digital Sustainability" has made it to the Curiously Green newsletter published by Wholegrain Digital 🤩 Thank you for sharing your knowledge on how to green the web! 🙏 www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-gr... @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social

My colleague Valentina Vavassori asked heritage organisations about how they do Automatic Text Recognition - the results were super interesting and rich! Here's the data and a brief analysis: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social #OCR #HTR #ATR

Next Thursday the team at @bldigischol.bsky.social will be talking about the UV's amazing community at @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social . Say hi if you want to talk about UV and IIIF over a pastel de nata!

Keep an eye out for our Digital Research team at #DH2025 in Lisbon next week! @adi-keinan.bsky.social @miaout.bsky.social @universalviewer.io @nfitzger.glammr.us.ap.brid.gy blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

Members of the British Library's Digital Research team will be at #DH2025 in Lisbon, July 15-18! Find out what we're presenting blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... - and say hi if you'll be there for #DigitalHumanities chats too!

@britishlibrary.bsky.social RSE Saira Akhter just blogged with reflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025 - including some @universalviewer.io goodies and #IIIF implemented with #OCR #HTR workflows blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

And we're off with the #iiif conference: https://iiif.io/event/2025/leeds/day1-tuesday/ in #leeds with the launch of the release candidate for v4 that introduces formal 3D support in IIIF lead by: https://iiif.io/community/groups/3d/tsg/ #3d #dh #digitalscholarship

Last March I ran a series of training events for @britishlibrary.bsky.social staff on digital sustainability - with so many incredible contributions from across the GLAM sector. Here's a blog post about this programme, feedback and future action: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @bldigischol.bsky.social

Deadline for submissions is fast approaching - 1 June 2025. Hope you can join us! #FF2025

Very pleased to share this #FF2025 announcement along with @mia#ff2025@ratanass #glam #dh #ml #digitalscholarship From: @AI4LAM https://glammr.us/@AI4LAM/114517307783112560

We’re halfway through our latest community sprint! Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...

Want to contribute to open source software used by libraries and galleries all around the world? Our next community sprints will be kicking off May 7, June 10, and July 1! Our focus for these three sprints is...

Calling all digital researchers! Join us for our May Doctoral Open Day on Digital Collections and Resources. From our newspaper archive to digital mapping and the use of collections data, find out more about how our collections can support your studies: bit.ly/BLOpenDayMay25

Are you a PhD student? Interested in working with @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections? Take a look at the next Doctoral Open Day, which is on the Library's digital collections. I'll be talking about the Digital Research Team @bldigischol.bsky.social! Friday 23 May events.bl.uk/events/not-j...

I've recently attended and delivered a keynote at the #Wikisource 2025 Conference in Bali, Indonesia, which was an absolute delight. Read here about my impressions: blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... @bldigischol.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social