Quick reminder of the Call for Papers for our @thinkuhi.bsky.social 'Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland Conference' being held at UHI Perth on 9-10 February 2026. tinyurl.com/yvpe9cwr

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

Call for Papers! "People Powered: human centred innovation" NAG's 16th Collection Development Seminar in Nottingham, 20-21 May. For the first time, we are doing TWO days so even more space for fantastic papers & workshops. Deadline: 1st Feb More info: nag.org.uk/cfp-2026/ #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26

Nominate your reading hero, recognising individuals who have championed reading, books, and literature in communities across the UK thequeensreadingroom.co.uk/the-queens-r...

Only I can get injuries from an artificial tree…

Party cake: is it just my child who refuses to eat the cake in the party bag? It doesn’t seem to matter what flavour or colour! But she likes cake in general??

In case anyone is looking for links: We looked very quickly at an ESTC record: datb.cerl.org/estc Other good sources for identifying and cataloguing rare books include: EEBO: proquest.libguides.com/eebopqp ECCO: gale.com/primary-sour... NCCO: gale.com/primary-sour... Hope this helps!

Free event for members and non-members: join the M25 Consortium Diversity Group and Beth Montague-Hellen at our EDI and Libraries Workshop 18 November, Middlesex University. Book your free place now www.m25lib.org.uk/events/edi-a...

🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨 📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections? We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service! Could this be YOU? Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

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: 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: 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

Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk

One day only THIS THURSDAY 10/30! @nickgarcia.bsky.social, @merbroussard.bsky.social, and @bb.usefairuse.com will be talking legal and ethical issues in AI for libraries and librarians! Register to attend (or get the recording and all the links)! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

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

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: 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

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

And levels remaining flat don't help when positivity is so high already, as in Cumbria, Durham, Sunderland. Teesside looks pretty labile still: Stockton-on-Tees and Hartlepool spiking further. 6/7

Look a new thing Librarians you should become experts in that new thing No we aren't gonna give you new staff so you can hire or train specialists You all just need to be experts at that and whatever else you're doing too Don't drop anything though We'll get mad You have to do the new thing

Is it just me or is this a bit weird? “Due to the number of steps and narrow passages after The King’s Hall wheelchairs, walking aids and crutches aren’t allowed due to health and safety requirements.” Narrow I can see is challenging but is banning walking aids really the answer?

Any recommendations for the best cake in London?

Help: I need photos of *Bengal Annual* 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 & 1836 at @britishlibrary.bsky.social BL isn't doing digital scans for remote patrons, tho a/o in London who mt be able to get to the BL? @rs4vp.org @victstudies.bsky.social @jimmussell.bsky.social

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.

After a year off, I’m thinking of volunteering for #Newcastle #PintOfScience again next year. Any local scientists interested in giving a 20 minute accessible talk on your research to members of the public? #SciComm #Research #Academicsky #PhDSky @pintofscience.uk

Anyone else still waiting impatiently for the 10am email to book Fenwick Santa on the Roof? Or have they just forgotten me… 🥺

More “visiting other people’s libraries on holiday” again - this time at the V&A where part of the “Design 1900-now” galleries are surrounded by beautiful oversize books. Really enjoyed the exhibition - and checking out the book titles….

I don’t get it… Why is it helpful for all the passengers for one station to use the same luggage rack? Doesn’t that create more congestion at exiting? #Lumo

Sigh. When you’re fighting with sorting a giant table in Word thinking “I wish past me had done this in Excel….” But after ten years, is it worth the effort to move it over?

Following a procedure, the cat isn’t allowed out freely for another week but she was wailing so pitifully at the door that I relented. It’s not like walking a dog though!

The hottest ticket in Durham this September? Probably not this, but I'm still excited to be giving a talk on Keats's copy of Shakespeare at the Palace Green Library, inspired by the current exhibit of Durham's First Folio📖 @ksaacomm.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twilight-t...

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.

You know you work in a small team when even the librarian has to do the Barista training…. I am still slightly afraid of the milk frother. Please, no-one ask for cappuccino when I’m covering for a few weeks!

September at The Common Room. 📖 4th – Book Launch: Tyneside’s Railway Heritage 🎸 6th – Edgar Jones live 📕 11th – NEIMME Book Launch: William Thomas & the S&D Railway 🏛 17th – General Admission Day + Railway 200 archive 🚋 18th – Talk: Newcastle Trams Full info & tix 👉 thecommonroom.org.uk/whats-on

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.

Looking forward to #HeritageOpenDays later this month! Join us at the Miners' Hall, Barnsley, on 16-17 September - a fantastic opportunity to see inside the NUM & Yorkshire Miners' Association's historic home & find out more about the union archives www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e...

Ok, it’s reassuring to know other people are struggling with “bound with” in MARC as well. Not sure I’m ready to leap into BIBFRAME but at least I know it’s not just me! #RBSCG25

Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London. 🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025 🕜 1.30–3pm 📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL 🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

Busman’s holiday! Anyone else spend their days off at other people’s libraries?

Really enjoyed the Ladybird books exhibition today at Ushaw College (nr Durham). Finishes 31st Aug so if you’ve been meaning to go…

She’s also pretty keen to come to work next week… @thecommonroomgn.bsky.social

When you install a bouncy castle in your library so your five year demands to come to work with you that day… @thecommonroomgn.bsky.social

Next week, as part of our summer events in August, we are transforming our Wood Hall into a play area, including a bouncy castle & giant snakes and ladders - for only £3 per child! We have other free & affordable events this month - see more information here thecommonroom.org.uk/family-summe...

Join us at for our free General Admission Day on 27th August. Explore our stunning building with our tour guides & relax in our 5|Quarter Cafe Bar. 🎨 Also, this month we are also host a special art exhibition from the Something Wonderful Project, commemorating the Montagu Mining Disaster of 1925.