I cannot stress how important it is that the issue of police records is dealt with and not brushed under the carpet as it has been for decades. The fact that they aren't Public Records is an accident of history, but the impact of this lack of regulatory control is immense.

hey colleagues, want to feel old? 18 year olds starting university this year are -younger than YouTube and Twitter -younger than the song “Bad Day” -and never knew Pluto as a planet (don’t worry tho, to make us all feel better about it they dress like it’s 2003)

You can join the Archives Hub Community on Teams and collaborate with other researchers and archivists. It is a friendly, supportive space for everyone with opportunities to work together to crowdsource useful resources and information www.jisc.ac.uk/get-involved...

The National Bibliographic Knowledgebase holds 165 million records contributed by 205 libraries from the UK & Ireland and Library Hub Discover offers a single search across the NBK. discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk

Carly Richardson and Jennie-Claire Crate from @jisc.bsky.social are now joining us to talk about enhancing discoverability and access for special collections and the role of Jisc’s Archives Hub and Library Hub in metadata transformation and aggregation. #RBSCG25

I'm happy to share this advert for a permanent part-time role in the library of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social share.google/K1v6wLMnhxQp...

Happy 350th birthday to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich! the foundation stone was laid at 3:14 pm on 10 August 1675 (OS). We know because the astronomer there, John Flamsteed, drew up a horoscope. See more here teleskopos.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a... #histSTM #histsci

Oh no! Hotspur Press is on fire! 😢

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something I've learned by covering online archives and libraries is that many valuable, free, online resources are maintained by extremely small teams, maybe one volunteer. Asking them to deal with scrapers that behave like DDoS attacks is unrealistic www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

Wikimedia Commons highlights a freely licensed,  community-curated image every day. These images document the world, one file at a time. Explore the archive or contribute your own: it is all part of building a shared visual record. Explore more featured images ➡️ w.wiki/7dzN

The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this

Interesting manicules in the margins BnF Français 12584; Roman de Renart; 14th century; France; f.61r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Love a mattress-based street art installation.

Looking forward to this session, happening now! #RLUKDSF

ChatGPT we will forgive you for taking all the content from our website for a one-time donation of 48 billion English pounds

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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AI crawlers generate so much traffic that some web sites are struggling to stay online. What can be done?

If anyone is interested in finding out a bit more about #ArchivesHub - please register below for the session on Wednesday! 😊

The next @jisc.bsky.social Digital Research Community meet up is all about Archives Hub Join @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social & team to find out how to search across descriptions of archives, held at over 400 institutions across the UK 📆 11 June (11am) 🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

📣Job opportunity in Warwickshire📣 The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) is seeking an Archivist (Cataloguer) to play a key part in the collections information, development and management of the BMIHT Archive. Closing date 29 June 2025. For more details 👇

🧵 This splendid image, released on 23 May 2024 as part of Euclid's Early Release Observations (ERO), shows Messier 78 (the central and brightest region), a nursery of star formation 1,300 ly away in the constellation of Orion. Enjoy! ➡️ www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #ESA

Fab meeting - happy to have been able to join virtually!

A kind request to sign the petition to show support and solidarity with the Archives Team at the University of Bangor. The knowledge, skills and amazing resource is under direct threat of being lost due to proposed cuts. Help save our archives!

"Antiquarian? Isn't that where you keep fish?" - overheard in the bookshop

Do you work with medieval manuscripts? Then please consider completing this questionnaire on the impact of cataloguing on the discoverability and usage of medieval manuscripts: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

We love this tiny fellow sailing on a boat! This detail can be found in a map of Gloucestershire in a 16th century hand-painted atlas of the counties of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #TinyTuesday #Maps #RareBooks

Use the Archives Hub to find unique sources for your #Research, both physical and digital 📆 11 June (11am) 📍 Online Register now 👉 jisc.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Find out more 👉 archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk

MORE BLUESKY ARCHIVE ACCOUNTS! Welcome to new arrival @fxuniarchives.bsky.social ! Bank Holiday boost to @norfolkro.bsky.social @masonspeccoll.bsky.social @gwentarchives.bsky.social @kentarchives.bsky.social @tharchives.bsky.social @swminerslibrary.bsky.social too - great collections to support!

Have people considered simply not sending survey requests about an email they once sent you

rather than doomscroll too much this weekend I made a weird archives #zine. I have no regrets.

Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.

This is extraordinary: "emissions by data centres needed to train and deliver AI services are estimated at around 3 per cent of the global total, close to those created by the aviation industry."

'Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has slashed the money given to the Office for Students for “strategic priorities” by more than £100 million and instructed the regulator to give priority to courses that are seen as supporting high-growth sectors.' 1/2

📢 Hiring Now - Project Archivist! Project: 'Jean Stone Collection: celebrating influential women in the Paralympic Movement' ♿ 🗓️ Contract Date: Jun 2025 – Jan 2026 (8 months) 📝 Closing Date: Fri 30th May 2025 #MuseumEd 💻 For details & to apply, visit: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/news/project...

Universities do research that may not be commercially viable now but will be transformative down the line. They correct for market failure. If all they do is think like enterprises then they become a part of that market failure.

today is World Bee Day. not to be confused with World Bidet

Some actually good news for early modernists, bibliographers, and catalogers: the beta ESTC is live!!! What an effing journey it's been trying to do research post-BL attack; it is a huge relief to see this progress datb.cerl.org/estc/ 📜📚

Still collecting old/weird letterpress blocks. Recently: Victorian woman using an early camera; headless saint holding their head; human head cross-section; "poison" skull+crossbones; paired big wooden Zs (1 outline, 1 solid) for doing a fancy two-color Z for a "Zine Bakery" print; tea+bakery things

A warehouse only appears when there’s a full Moon, otherwise it’s a normal house.

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Cat in the Old Schools Quad! Cat in the Old Schools Quad! Maybe he's been mewsing on philosophy in the Divinity School? Or reading Pawlatonic ideals in the Old Bod? Because he's a catademic? Better puns gratefully recieved.

What better way to celebrate #EarthDay than with a hand-coloured incunable? 🌎 This is Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia', from 1482, which features 32 early examples of printed maps! Shelfmark: Grylls 2.195 lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/90ed3...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever used the Wayback Machine! ✋ The Internet Archive project (funded in part by NEH, #IMLS and #NSF) is an invaluable treasure trove of millions archived sites, texts, software, movies and more. All FREE. And a vast majority of federal funding has been cut. archive.org

Bat, Literally Translated into English. Map by me

I wasn’t made for “the grind” I was made to have a secret benefactor and wander through bare ruined abbeys and yearn

Are you an enthusiastic archivist who would love the chance to delve into the vast photographic archive of the Peak District National Park and catalogue it all? Then apply to join us for this 1 year project funded by Archives Revealed: jobs.derbyshire.gov.uk/libraries-pl...