Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!

Can anyone recommend printers near St Pancras / the British Library for people printing their #FF2025 posters?

Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: https://uvcon.io https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]

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...

New research on how public libraries and librarians in England tackle mis/dis-information - short survey, please complete & share app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/a... #IntellectualFreedom

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

Work at the British Library on pulling structured information from scanned card catalogues: https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]

Curious about using 'public domain' British Library Flickr images? https://web.archive.org/web/20240525111448/https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/04/curious-about-using-public-domain-british-library-flickr-images.html Can't find our images anymore? Try Advanced Search

Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️ From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years. Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps

New LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability! Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...

In her great talk hosted by @pelagios.bsky.social, @miaout.bsky.social mentioned the AI4LAM project, which has this awesome "Awesome List" of AI resources for the GLAM sector sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/...

In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' www.bl.uk/stories/blog... #OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR

Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @bldigischol.bsky.social www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

My most excellent colleague @adi-keinan.bsky.social mentions the @bldigischol.bsky.social internal training programme on digital scholarship - a lot of our material has been turned into public guides at libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... (thank you @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social ) #KnowledgeIsHuman

Are you missing specific blog posts from our Digital Scholarship blog? You can check what's been captured by the Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/ *

#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies. 🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025 #DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement

Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog... Please share with any musicians you know!

Hey! We have two new draft chapters of the Living with Machines book up online for your delectation! One on Mapreader and one on the Environmental Scan. read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/liv...

Our President, @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social announces her Presidential Citations. 🎉Congratulations to @philbradley.bsky.social, Dr Carla Hayden & Maja Maricevic. Three individuals who've shown exceptional dedication, leadership & innovation. #CILIPAGM www.cilip.org.uk/page/preside...

Go Maja! 'Maja Maricevic is awarded the Presidential Citation in recognition of her outstanding work as a driving force behind the evolution of the Green Libraries movement.'

We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments! https://hcommons.social/@mia/115333567347425105

We're so grateful to Sak for his work with @britishlibrary.bsky.social playbills - not only does blplaybills.org make them findable online, but we learn from his experiments!

The Museums Association's membership has voted to approve the 2025 update to the Code of Ethics 🗳️ We're pleased to announce that our members have ratified the updated code as part of the business of our AGM at this year's conference. You can read the code on our website 👇

In case you missed it, British Library E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) update from Sept 3: https://www.bl.uk/collection/ethos EThOS is the national database of UK doctoral theses.

✨Deeply honoured to deliver this year's Annual Digital Lecture at The National Archives! Drawing on our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project, I'll explore how preservation creates loss in the digital age and what that means for the politics of archives. Nov 20 6pm at Senate House, London. Do join us!

Join us on October 8 for a conversation about managing bots, including: 🔸 How institutions are managing overwhelming bot traffic; 🔸 the downstream ramifications of those safeguards; 🔸 and possible solutions for keeping IIIF resources available for reuse Zoom info: iiif.io/community

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 📅 July 27-31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025 Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ #DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

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

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC. Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

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.

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

#FF2025 folk - we've heard that some people received a phishing email from Global Travel Service about accommodation in London for the Fantastic Futures conference. This hasn't come from us organisers. If you have received such an email please ignore or block the sender.

Tickets for Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025 did go fast! There'll be a wait list, and there are 500 places overall to watch the main conference sessions on Thursday and Friday

Tickets for Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025 did go fast! There'll be a wait list, and there are 500 places overall to watch the main conference sessions on Thursday and Friday

This is promising to be a great conference, check the programme and register quick. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to #FF2025 in December!

Registration for @[email protected]'s Fantastic Futures #FF2025 is now! Tickets will go fast, but fret not if you miss out - you can register to watch the full conference online on Thursday and Friday for free! Get tickets www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... Programme www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...

Reduce the environmental impact of your museum's learning, outreach and public programmes with this handy toolkit www.artfund.org/professional... @artfund.bsky.social @designmuseum.bsky.social @icomuk.bsky.social

The latest issue of our OA Journal 'Catalogue & Index' (ISSN 2399-9667) has now been published. Issue 212 (Sept 2025) contains articles on the topic of "Non-MARC Cataloguing and Metadata Practices." Read the full issue at: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #cataloguing #metadata #nonMARC

#Finland #media #journalism #newspapers 'Newspapers published up to the end of 1939 are openly available, while subsequent issues can be explored on site at the legal deposit libraries.' www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/news/news...

Typepad users in the UK can nominate #Typepad sites to be archived to the UK Web Archive by emailing [email protected] The UK Web Archive isn't currently able to display saved sites, but they are able to save them For more on the UK Web Archive and UK legal deposit law, see www.webarchive.org.uk

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

Have you checked out Sak Supple's blplaybills.org lately? He's been experimenting with semantic search, and improving OCR for British Library playbills. A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory! Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas

Got a Typepad blog? Better get it archived! (HT @miaout.bsky.social ) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Have you checked out Sak Supple's blplaybills.org lately? He's been experimenting with semantic search, and improving OCR for British Library playbills. A big boon for #TheaterHistory / #TheatreHistory! Please let him or us know if you have feedback or ideas

🤗 Very proud of our staff members for having an article published in the latest issue of @learnedpublishing.bsky.social about the Living with Machines project on our @manifoldscholar.bsky.social platform! 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities

If you have ideas for public engagement projects involving the British Library for this scheme, please complete our Research Collaboration: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Have you checked out the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Research Repository lately? Loads of datasets and publications to explore https://bl.iro.bl.uk/

A Dutch artist’s book I bought in 2018 for @britishlibrary’s collections gets a place in the sun on Instagram. Bit.ly/BLInstaSpijker

Have you checked out the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Research Repository lately? Loads of datasets and publications to explore bl.iro.bl.uk

Congratulations to everyone whose proposal was accepted for #FF2025 ! The standards were incredibly high, and we had to leave out so many excellent submissions.