After some drama with a burst pipe and some cascading water, we're delighted to say the Burton is BACK and open again as normal. 🎉

Did you know that @uoylibrary.bsky.social provides a DOI registration service for @york.ac.uk academic outputs? 🔗 DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) can help people find, cite and track work. We provide them for outputs hosted on york.ac.uk web pages, and/or the White Rose Research Online repository

What a great piece and what a fabulous photo this one in particular is, of the Avocado under a bronze sky...

Look at this one though. Click on it and have a proper look, it is *delightful*. Positively Narnia-esque.

We've done a frankly GLORIOUS campus-in-the-snow compilation over on Insta (www.instagram.com/p/DRO5fwnjr3...) but we don't want you to miss out so here's some of the classics from our photographer Paul Shields ...

We've put this up on our big vertical screen again this year... #UoYTips

What a sky, Bluesky!

Have people seen the Uni of Sheffield GenAI prompt bank? sheffield.ac.uk/study-skills... It's an effort to make GenAI interactions more structured and efficient with specifically academic prompts to support specifically academic activities. We'd be really interested in your views on it.

Hello! We're going to be part of an ADHD awareness month stand in @uoylibrary.bsky.social library foyer today! The stand runs 12.30-14.30 - do drop by with any questions, to find out more about available university support or just to have a chat!

*sighs nostalgically* The number of hours I spent in the JBM... (We'll gloss over the number of Danish pastries consumed in the cafe next door. Ahem.)

The Morrell Library is 59 years old today! Join us on a brief pictorial trip back in time with his much loved* brutalist building, starting with this cracking picture of the mid-60s campus, with the Morrell behind Central Hall. Look at those crisp architectural lines. Woof. Next up: plans >> 🧵

Probably the last time the sun will be like this in 2025 so COME INDOORS WITH US, VISIT THE LIBRARY

The river is up in #York! If you like slightly whimsical videos of flooded rivers with a mellow sound track, this video is for you. Normal service will resume shortly.

We know a lot of our followers use Academia Edu - definitely worth reading the new Ts and Cs before deciding whether to accept them... bsky.app/profile/npos...

In case you missed it - welcome to the library!

Our hyper-local, mega-specific, extremely niche personal welcome screen is what greets new students and staff as they enter our library...

York Departments, Schools, Groups, academics etc - if you have the chance, please point incoming students towards the Library's Quick Start Guide to help get them up to speed with all we can offer them: www.york.ac.uk/library/visi... #UoYTips

The library cafe has had what the young people would describe as ‘a glow up’ and it is now seriously nicer than it was before. Importantly, the coffee is *objectively* nicer than it was previously, in our opinion… ☕️

We're BACK! And what better way to celebrate than to share the recent (as in last half an hour) news which has academic Bluesky scratching their heads - a 3 month pause to the REF criteria setting process... (cc @uoyopenres.bsky.social) 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Right here it is, our OoO. Please don't be too entertaining while we're gone because it's hard enough catching up with emails... In the meantime if you've not already read the Researcher's Guide to Bluesky, what better time to start? >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 👋

We are considering setting up some sort of social media out-of-office post later today, because the person who runs this account will be on leave for a couple of weeks. Which reminds us of this, the greatest misuse of an out of office reply ever... One for the linguists.

Each year we ask two Student Curators to work with the library on a project they feel passionate about. These paid positions always result in fascinating work, including expanded and diversified collections. This thread is about Lola Furniss's curation, on working class women in England. 🧵 >>

It turns out we have THE most @themerl.bsky.social book absolutely ever. yorsearch.york.ac.uk/permalink/44... You *could* argue that the author has already reached the 'too numerous to mention' stage with the current title, but this is the 1770s, when they liked their book names looooong.

You’ll find this book in our ‘Accountability’ section.

Hi, I'm a library in a film. There are no computers in me, or indeed any books published in the last 200 years, but there are many individual desk lamps plus an antique globe. My books are stored with a dizzying degree of verticality, and can only be reached via those little sliding shelf-ladders.

We bring exciting news for organisational accounts! Bluesky's new 'age verification' process doesn't need to involve ID cards, credit cards, phone number etc - it links to a website which scans your face via your webcam. If you look sufficiently haggard, you pass. 😎

Respect to anyone who reaches The Full 75. 📚

Us in the photobooth, trying to get a nice shot for some ID to convince Bluesky we were born in 1963 with the University... 🪪

Personally we are huge fans of the 'old stuff that contains even older stuff whose outrageous misuse at the time has inadvertently preserved it allowing us to read it nearly 500 years later' sub-genre of special collections! ❤️

A sort of Greyfriars Bovine, if you will...

We're told it's #CowAppreciationDay and there's only one cow in our hearts. [That scaping sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel marked 'social media content']

Loads of great accessibility tips here, for conference organisers, speakers, and session chairs... #AlwaysUseTheMic #NoReally

🌟 Huge congratulations to @masudk.com on his appointment as Chief Digital and Information Officer at the University of Leeds! 👏 He’s been a hugely influential figure for White Rose Libraries through his work on the Executive Board and with White Rose University Press @wrunipress.bsky.social

Our two digital labs (the Creativity Lab & YorCreate) have done all sorts of useful collabs with researchers and teaching staff at York. They're also open for drop-ins and to look around, at the forthcoming Celebrating Spaces: Connecting Researchers event on July 3rd www.york.ac.uk/staff/resear...

Everyone is talking about this MIT research on how using ChatGPT academically affects the brain. It's striking how much ongoing impact there is from overreliance on Gen AI. It goes beyond spoon-feeding; LLMs appear to be dismantling the apparatus we need to use a spoon ourselves in future.

Fabulous session on OERs coming up next month, featuring Dr Rebecca Barnes and and Prof Darren Robinson from @sheffielduni.bsky.social, and our very own David Graham and Carmen Álvarez-Mayo from York. Details and registration at uoy.atlassian.net/wiki/x/-gArGw

I'll be presenting at the Africa Research Network at York (ARN) next Monday on June 23, 2025. I'll be speaking on Alternatives to the Western-controlled and traditional publication methods as part of our work at the @uoylibrary.bsky.social @uoyopenres.bsky.social.

Great to see news of Richard's forthcoming title with @punctumbooks.bsky.social, one of many scholar-led diamond open access publishers supported by @uoylibrary.bsky.social (in this case, via @openbookcollective.bsky.social) 📖 🔓 Read more about our support for the wider open research ecosystem 👇

now that's a blast from the past

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? If you placed all the books in an average Waterstones end to end, it would stretch around 7500km! But if you placed all the books *in our library* end to end, it would cause a huge fuss and you'd likely be asked to leave.

To quote (probably) @adamkoszary.bsky.social a long time ago, for a different social media account, on a different platform: It's a beautiful day. Why not spend it indoors, in our library, in the dark.* *In all fairness it's not actually dark in our library, there's natural light for days

Elaine was a wonderful human and a very inspirational figure in our industry. We will miss her.

Today the University is hosting an N8 event: Pathways to sustainable scholarly publishing. We have speakers from @jisc.bsky.social, @ukri.org, @sheffielduni.bsky.social, @lancasteruni.bsky.social, CUP, Uni of London, the Biochemical Society, Cardiff Uni, & York. And we're looking forward to it!

Bluesky, help us understand why this archive shot of the library is so satisfying. There's just something great about it. 1989, pre-Fairhurst, pre-Burton. #tbt #ThrowBackThursday

Just a reminder that this is the week in which the printed collections currently housed in the King’s Manor Library, will be moved to the main University Library. They will be unavailable for 1 week, while the move to the main campus takes place, and the library catalogue is updated. More below:

Next month we're running a session for York staff on embedding digital creativity into academic teaching. Exploring podcasting, video creation, 3D modelling, this will be EXCELLENT and you can sign up below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#Openaccess is about making research publications (articles, books and chapters) freely available online with reduced restrictions on use and re-use 🔓 📖 Our pages provide guidance on open access for @york.ac.uk staff and students, including services and support provided by @uoylibrary.bsky.social

The fact that GenAI often gets 95% of something 'right' is really problematic. Because people don't robustly check it, and so the 5% that is utter nonsense slips through, causing untold credibility damage.

Do not use mathematical symbols to imitate font styles, such as italic, bold, or bold-italic.

As it is Global Accessibility Awareness Day ( #GAAD ) we'd like to re-draw your attention to this particular passage from the Researcher's Guide to Bluesky (blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...). Go to Settings >> Accessibility >> Require text before posting. Takes a second, makes a difference. 🧵