Fingers crossed everyone will get their Lego today, or Monday at the latest! Still a space left if anyone wants to book a last minute ticket before the end of today and I'll post the Lego tomorrow :)

Custom A3 letterpress print done for someone. It's only simple but took a while to get it how they wanted it! Apparently a quote by an Olympian to inspire someone as they work out in their gym.

The #LILAC26 Call for Presentations closes today. But there’s still lots of time, you have until 16:00 (GMT) to upload your proposal. Visit our website to find out more ➡️ buff.ly/lOl4Hfm

NLISN are collecting case studies that showcase stories from the network. We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.

Gonna start packaging up Lego and posting it out this week for the online Intro to Lego workshop on 21st! I think I've one attendee outside the UK this time, so that'll go today or tomorrow just to be extra safe, rest can follow later in the week... legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk

Made a tool roll out of leather today, that was a fun workshop!

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

I don't know why, but I fancied writing a haiku and letterpress printing it! Might do another tomorrow? Ideas welcome!

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

🎉Tomorrow:

There’s still time to plan & submit a presentation proposal for #LILAC26. If you’re looking for inspiration, take a look at presentations from previous conferences: buff.ly/s4C8eln Our call for presentations closes in one week - Thursday 13 November (16:00 GMT) #infolit #digilit

Hopefully everything went out ok yesterday, including to the people who signed up just after the initial email! Trusting Eventbrite's email system to work properly here...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Good morning.

Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.

I'm putting together a list of coaches to recommend to librarians and library managers. If you have worked with a coach and would recommend them, please share. DMs open or shoot me an email bobbi.newman AT gmail.com #publlibs #medlibs #skybrarians 📚

Lined up the first week of content (video and PDF) to go out for "Being Playful in the workplace" first thing next Monday morning! You can still register anytime up until the end of November if you want to come along (still some "pay what you can afford" tickets too!) playfulwork.eventbrite.co.uk

The black dot in the distance is my dog sulking because I threw a ball for another dog rather than him...

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!

First week of this will be released next week, though you can still book on during the whole of November, you'll just get multiple weeks content in one go if you book later on!

Making up packs of Lego to post out for the upcoming (online) Lego workshop. Still time to book on if you haven't already (but limited spaces!) legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk

So if you're neurodivergent and work in a library or information role (not just librarians) in any sector, please fill it in soon, the more the merrier!

Huge thankyou to CILIP Disability Network for awarding NLISN this Accessibility Award, which has now safely arrived in the post! We won as an organisation so although Jo and Andy are named, this award is for all of us. The committee, the network and all our allies. #cilip #libraries #accessibility

Playposium 2026 – British Summer Festival 22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK www.playposium.com

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

Friends, do not sleep on this! It is an incredible cover/altered version of Jolene. This singer's voice is phenomenal, and the new lyrics are perfect for spooky season.

What better way to celebrate #IFLA100 www.ifla.org/news/ifla-se... and #CILIP150 www.cilip.org.uk/page/IFLAWLI... than a big joint birthday party, with the global library & information profession all invited? The World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) is coming to London & the UK in 2027 8-)

Whoops. I've accidentally bought stationery based Christmas crackers from CultPens...

New FORRT paper on the intersection of neurodiversity and open research is published, led by Jenny Mai Phan with @saralilplants.bsky.social @flavioazevedo.bsky.social @bethaniley.com Magdalena Grose-Hodge @sammiety.bsky.social @yskjdmmhnd.bsky.social @johnjshaw.bsky.social @helenahartmann.com.

Fellow librarians, where do you like to get your professional continuing education? Free and paid options, please and thank you.

If you missed our recent ‘Submitting a LILAC abstract’ workshop with the @infolitgroup.bsky.social catch up on the recording, which is full of ideas & advice on writing a presentation proposal for #LILAC26. Our call for presentations closes on the 13 Nov: www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2026/c...

🚨 While Amazon Web Services crumbled, our state-of-the-art GeoCities-powered learning environment stood strong

So this is how it went down

Making up packs of Lego to post out for the upcoming (online) Lego workshop. Still time to book on if you haven't already (but limited spaces!) legoteaching.eventbrite.co.uk

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Bearing in mind I'm in a house full of books, thought I'd better make one of the first #letterpress prints with my new type a bookish one! (On handmade cotton rag paper.) Did a few and stuck it on Etsy as well as doing one for myself, will put it on my wall when dry :) www.etsy.com/shop/Librari...

I love this so much

Tried multiple supermarkets and can't find any near me that sell oatmeal - does no-one near here make parkin? Given up and and ordered some online, it's definitely getting into parkin season...

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

I suspect in this case "surprising" will be a synonym for "accurate"... and might not happen as much as you'd hope for.

Fabulous

This week I'm asking people who hire #LIS workers: 1. Have you encountered AI-written applications in any of your searches? 2. Were they obvious? 3. What did you do? 4. Any AI-related advice for other people or organizations who hire? 5. Any AI-related advice for job seekers? 6. Anything else?

Nic Whitton's lecture just started with Badger from Badger and bodger... I'm now hoping for a Harry Hill Badger finish. "Make haste! For the badger parade is in but 20 minutes!"

Amused by the "call for play" out for CounterPlay which is basically open to owt playful! At one point they say "You might think of your proposal as a play session, a workshop, a conversation, a talk, a tour, an installation, or something else entirely ... The more we can be surprised, the better."