NAG Webinar Week: Beyond the Stacks: A Sneak Peek into Library Staff Engagement with Job Shadowing with Ayesha Thompson, Chris Addleton and Cristina Rusu Thursday 20 Nov 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/shadow... Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together. Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price. nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social

"The Caring Library" webinar has been rescheduled to Monday 12th January 2026 due to compassionate leave. All tickets remain valid, a recording will be available if you are unable to make the new date. #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Webinar Week: Reading Between the Lines: Promoting Diversity & Inclusion Through Curated Book Displays with Dean Brown, Beth Lanigan and Cameron Fragoso Tues 18 Nov, 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/inclus... Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Webinar Week: Beyond the Stacks: A Sneak Peek into Library Staff Engagement with Job Shadowing with Ayesha Thompson, Chris Addleton and Cristina Rusu Thursday 20 Nov 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/shadow... Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

The global academic publishing ecosystem is under growing strain and not equipped to meet future challenges without urgent, sector-wide reforms. Our new report advocates for collective action to establish a more sustainable and equitable future. 🔗 https://cup.org/47YivxZ

Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together. Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price. nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social

NAG Webinar Week: Reading Between the Lines: Promoting Diversity & Inclusion Through Curated Book Displays with Dean Brown, Beth Lanigan and Cameron Fragoso Tues 18 Nov, 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/inclus... Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Celebrating NAG's 40th anniversary, the next of our "Spotlight on the Chair" blogs is live with our 2013-2014 Chair, Karen Carden: nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-... #NAGstalgia

Public #Libraries and arts centres across the North East are embracing 'Our Freedom: Then and Now' with great creativity. North Tyneside Libraries will host an art installation from 14 November based on responses to the idea of 'freedom'. www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/arts-and-cul...

Save the Date! NAG Seminar and Forum is coming to Nottingham for 2026 and we're making it a two day event 🎉 - 20th and 21st May 2026 - Albert Hall, Nottingham More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/ 📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26

NAG Webinar Week: The Caring Library: Championing carers in the workplace, community and collections with @timbuckle.bsky.social Mon 17 Nov, 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/caring/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Webinar Week: Beyond the Stacks: A Sneak Peek into Library Staff Engagement with Job Shadowing with Ayesha Thompson, Chris Addleton and Cristina Rusu Thursday 20 Nov 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/shadow... Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. Thursday 20 Nov 12pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Webinar Week: Reading Between the Lines: Promoting Diversity & Inclusion Through Curated Book Displays with Dean Brown, Beth Lanigan and Cameron Fragoso Tues 18 Nov, 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/inclus... Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

We've got a new job available here in the archive! We're looking for an Archive Assistant to support our collections team. For more information, head to jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...

NEW WEBINAR: “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” hosted by Copim, @sparc-eu.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social 📆 Tue 11 Nov ⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT/4pm-5.15pm CET 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8 #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks

NAG Webinar Week: The Caring Library: Championing carers in the workplace, community and collections with @timbuckle.bsky.social Mon 17 Nov, 2pm Book now: nag.org.uk/event/caring/ Free and open to all! #NAGWebinarWeek

Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀 Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing 📆 26-27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University | London [or online] 🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price. nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social

NAG Webinar Week 2025 is available to book! Join us free for one or all of these great sessions from librarians across the UK who are sharing their projects! nag.org.uk/events/ Don't worry if you can't make it live; open access recordings will be available for all. 📚 #NAGWebinarWeek

NAG Members - our next Coffee and Chat is all about AI in Acquisitions Workflows. Do join us on Zoom, Friday 24 Oct 11am nag.org.uk/event/chatoc... All NAG members welcome. If you're not sure whether your organisation is a member please do just get in touch! No hard sales pitch, we promise.

Deadline approaching! Get in touch by 10th Oct NAG Webinar Week 2025: share your recent library projects with the wider community, running 17-21 November nag.org.uk/webinar-week... NAG membership not required to present or watch; all sessions will be open to everyone and all recordings open access.

NAG Members - our next Coffee and Chat is all about AI in Acquisitions Workflows. Do join us on Zoom, Friday 24 Oct 11am nag.org.uk/event/chatoc... All NAG members welcome. If you're not sure whether your organisation is a member please do just get in touch! No hard sales pitch, we promise.

Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as a leading officer & inform the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers in UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...

Got that Friday feeling? Why not take ten minutes out of the day-job to consider NAG Webinar Week 2025! Have you got a recent library project you could share? Running 17-21 November; deadline for submissions 10th October. nag.org.uk/webinar-week... No NAG membership required - open to everyone.

Join our Cathedral Librarian this November as part of our ‘Art of the Book’ series to explore how books were printed, sewn and bound during the hand-press period. 📕 The Anatomy of Books 📕 11 November 📕 2pm - 3:30pm 📕 Tickets from £20 Find out more + book your place: bit.ly/AnatomyOfBooks

NAG Webinar Week 2025! Share your recent library projects with the wider community Running 17-21 November; deadline for submissions 10th October. nag.org.uk/webinar-week... NAG membership not required to present or watch; all sessions will be open to everyone and all recordings open access.

NAG Webinar Week 2025! Share your recent library projects with the wider community Running 17-21 November; deadline for submissions 10th October. nag.org.uk/webinar-week... NAG membership not required to present or watch; all sessions will be open to everyone and all recordings open access.

Celebrating NAG's 40th anniversary, the next of our "Spotlight on the Chair" blogs is live with our 2017-2020 Chair, Alison Harland: nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-... @bookgirla.bsky.social #NAGstalgia

Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out. I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!

🔵 #RLUK26 #CFP | Stewardship in challenging times: the role of libraries in supporting civic society 📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all. 🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf

If you’re coming along and want to join the conversation follow #NAGDonations

Tomorrow! Over 100 people signed up to talk all things donations…

Planning for Seminar 2026 starts now! For me, with a rail map of the UK, for you, maybe an outline for a paper or a workshop? We would be delighted to see some early submissions when the call for papers opens this autumn!

Working with ND colleagues webinar, 8th September, 2pm. Bookings now open :) Session is aimed at neurotypical people who wish to know more about the experiences of neurodivergent (ND) people in the workplace and support them more effectively. ndcolleagues.eventbrite.co.uk

Dealing with Donations is clearly a popular topic! We're up to 98 booked for next week's Coffee and Chat but space for a few more if any other NAG members would like to join us!

The recording of the @copim.bsky.social and @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social webinar 'Copim and acquisitions librarians present… Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' is now available: nag.org.uk/materials/re...

NAG Members: Coffee and Chat "There's no such thing as a free book! Dealing with Donations" Wed 16 Jul 10:30am Come and discuss your strategies and solutions with fellow professionals who understand and sympathise with the problem! nag.org.uk/event/chatju...

We've been making some changes to our ONIX, MARC, KBART, and JSON metadata feeds - find out what these changes are and why we're making them, as well as future developments to our #OAbook metadata in this new blog post: oapen.hypotheses.org/1484 @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social

Free webinar next week! Copim and acquisitions librarians present… Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times Wed 25th June 2pm Free and open to everyone; recording available OA after event. nag.org.uk/event/rethin... @copim.bsky.social

Sign up! We'll be thinking hard about the role of #OAbooks within content 'acquisition' & how this might change our understanding of that role, rather than thinking about supporting OA models to provide an outlet for authors to publish. We'll also be thinking about #OA & permanent access ⬇️

Copim and acquisitions librarians present… Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times Wed 25th June 2pm Free and open to everyone; recording available OA after event. nag.org.uk/event/rethin... @copim.bsky.social

Next week!

It's a wrap #NAGcd15🎉🎉 What a great panel to conclude NAG Seminar 2025, discussing reading lists, purchasing and licensing followed by a thought provoking topic of strategies for librarians and academics on how to break down barriers. @siobhanh.bsky.social @heroicendeavour.bsky.social

It’s not a birthday without cake! Thank you to @vitalsource.bsky.social for sponsoring our gorgeous cupcakes! #nagcd15

A coffee break with ice lollies! A complete surprise from the Marriott - we have loved the catering today

Secure your seat at our next session with Natasha Edmonds, Clarivate and Sjoukje Schots, The Open University; exploring how academic libraries are evolving to support students in a rapidly changing digital and professional landscape. #NAGcd15 @sjoukjeschots.bsky.social @clarivate.com