Cardiff Uni Libraries calling 👋. Giving our BlueSky account a little reboot ahead of the new semester. We are sorry for abandoning you. It won't happen again*. *It might well do because Instagram is a job in itself.

Llyfrgell y Celfyddydau ac Astudiaethau Cymdeithasol 'Rhestredig Gradd II' gan Cadw 🙏🍾

Designated 'Historic Asset'! We always suspected it, but now it's Cadw official! 🙏🍾 Our Arts & Social Studies Library received it's Grade II listing on Wednesday last week, noted as a key example of a twentieth century university library in Wales.

Beth rydyn ni wedi bod yn ei wneud yn ystod yr wythnos ddiwethaf: orca.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi/latest

What we've been doing in the last week: orca.cardiff.ac.uk/cgi/latest

Yes, we know how to use the printers

International students are not a single group, yet we keep treating them like one, argues Tim Hewes-Belton. From pre-arrival connection to inclusive halls events, here's how to help them settle into UK university life www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/tips-... @lborouniversity.bsky.social

Lovely buildings, very reminiscent of our own Brambell Building here at Bangor University which was recently Grade II listed. They call it Brutalist Architecture, but I think they're beautiful.

We don't like to brag about this (too often) but in 1976 our brand new Arts and Social Studies Library was awarded 'commended' status at the Concrete Society Awards, or rather our architects FaulknerBrowns were for putting us up! (1/4)

Dydyn ni ddim yn hoffi tynnu sylw at hyn (yn rhy aml) ond ym 1976 dyfarnwyd statws canmoliaeth i adeilad newydd sbon Llyfrgell y Celfyddydau ac Astudiaethau Cymdeithasol yng ngwobrau'r Gymdeithas Goncrit, neu'n hytrach y penseiri, FaulknerBrowns, gafodd y ganmoliaeth. (1/4)

We don't like to brag about this (too often) but in 1976 our brand new Arts and Social Studies Library was awarded 'commended' status at the Concrete Society Awards, or rather our architects FaulknerBrowns were for putting us up! (1/4)

Pan fydd casgliadau yn cael eu hadnewyddu - peidiwch â chynhyrfu, mae'n broses naturiol yn y llyfrgell i wneud yn siŵr bod ein stoc yn gyfredol - mae'r hen gopïau'n cael eu pacio a'u rhoi i dîm AnyBook, sydd yna’n catalogio, cadw a gwerthu pob eitem (1/2)

One for the library nerds. Everyone else, look away! When our collections are weeded - don't panic, it's a natural library process to keep our stocks fresh - they get packed and transported to the team at AnyBook who then catalogue, store and sell each item (1/2)

Yn union 10 mlynedd yn ôl heddiw, lansiwyd Gwasg Prifysgol Caerdydd - dywedodd llawer o bobl na fyddai'n gweithio, ond fe wnaeth! Penblwydd hapus i CardiffUP, a phob lwc am y degawd nesaf o gyhoeddi 🎂🎉 cardiffuniversitypress.org #MynediadAgored @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @ubiquityopen.bsky.social

Exactly 10 years ago today, Cardiff University Press was launched - many people said it wouldn't work, but it did! Happy birthday CardiffUP, and here's to the next decade of publishing 🎂🎉cardiffuniversitypress.org #openaccess @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @ubiquityopen.bsky.social

As you were. Mwynhewch y sioe / enjoy if you're going! (Merchandise is purely fictional, definitely... maybe).

Great news coverage of a great project by @caerheritage.bsky.social & @cardiffunilib.bsky.social 👌👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Does it get boring for you in the library over the summer?" 🥵💪♻️

'The magic of manicules'. More pointing fingers from the margins of Cardiff’s rare books in our Special Collections and Archives: scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/t...

It's true! lup.openingthefuture.net/news/149/ (👂🔥: @cuopenresearch.bsky.social).

Welcome @cuopenresearch.bsky.social to the Cardiff University Bluesky community 🔓👋

Croeso @cuopenresearch.bsky.social i gymuned Bluesky Prifysgol Caerdydd 🔓👋

Bump 🚣‍♀️

'The magic of manicules'. More pointing fingers from the margins of Cardiff’s rare books in our Special Collections and Archives: scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/t...

My second home for quite a few years!

Mae ASSL yn 50! 🎈 Wedi'i adeiladu ar safle hen siediau injans rheilffordd, adeiladwyd y strwythur uchelgeisiol gwerth £1.1 miliwn (sy'n cyfateb i £12.5 miliwn heddiw) dros gyfnod o ddwy flynedd.

Cardiff Uni academics of Bluesky! We'd be grateful if you'd share 🙏. We are really looking forward to hearing your memories of our brutalist beacon on campus!

There's no library study break like a Daisy the Therapy Dog library study break. Diolch am ddod i ymweld â ni / thanks for the visit! 🐕🥰

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

Monday. I'm calm. I'm composed. I'm absolutely fine. 📷 @carlbovisnature.bsky.social #MondayMotivation

Smashing Pumpkins at Cardiff University, 22nd September 1993 #smashingpumpkims @cardiffunilib.bsky.social #cardiff #wales #caerdydd #cymru #cardiffmusichistory

Join us to hear new and exciting works from poets inspired by Wales' unique and beautiful rivers! / Dewch i fwynhau gweithiau newydd a chyffrous gan feirdd sydd wedi eu hysbrydoli gan afonydd unigryw Cymru! www.outsavvy.com/event/26716/...

Students supporting students in our spaces 💪☕. We love to see it.

The shortlist for Wales Book of the Year 2025 has been revealed Vote for your favourite here 👇

Join us for a conversation with one of our alumni, Rhiannon Morgan: Visible Differences: Advancing Face Equality in Media and Employment 📅14 May 2025 ⏲️16:00 ➡️Register here: tinyurl.com/2pryd7sn

Cardiff Uni academics of Bluesky! We'd be grateful if you'd share 🙏. We are really looking forward to hearing your memories of our brutalist beacon on campus!

Mae ASSL yn 50! 🎈 Wedi'i adeiladu ar safle hen siediau injans rheilffordd, adeiladwyd y strwythur uchelgeisiol gwerth £1.1 miliwn (sy'n cyfateb i £12.5 miliwn heddiw) dros gyfnod o ddwy flynedd.

The ASSL is 50 🎈... thread! Built on the site of former railway engine sheds, the ambitious structure was built over two years, at a cost of £1.1 million (the equivalent of £12.5 million today).

We love our local indie bookshops! @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social 👋

Today marks 80 years since #VEDay, the end of the Second World War in Europe. Learn how the war impacted farming in our Land Girls online exhibition, highlighting the tens of thousands of women who worked to keep England fed during the toughest of circumstances. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/onli...

This is a great cue for us to say... Join us to hear new and exciting works from poets inspired by Wales' unique and beautiful rivers! / Dewch i fwynhau gweithiau newydd a chyffrous gan feirdd sydd wedi eu hysbrydoli gan afonydd unigryw Cymru! www.outsavvy.com/event/26716/...

As #SecondChanceMonth comes to a close, we’re highlighting the American Prison Newspapers collection from Reveal Digital—freely available on JSTOR. The open access collection features more than 700 periodicals. Explore the collection: bit.ly/42xMmL5

Would anyone like a book delivered very slowly to an al fresco location? ☀️🌡️🍦

There are amazing French collections all over the UK & you can read a profile of the Barbier Papers at @cardiffunilib.bsky.social written by @hdiamond.bsky.social. The legacy of the university’s first Professor of French, Paul Barbier, is rich & fascinating ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...

Y tawelwch cyn y storm / the calm before the students descend. Catching up with the security guards at Bute 🦆🦆. Sharpening pencils, oiling trolley wheels, practicing 'the shush'. It's almost time.

Another Ken classic 👇📚

Normal service resumes across our libraries today! See you in the stacks.

William #Shakespeare was (possibly) born #OTD in 1564 & died #OTD in 1616. We look after a tobacco stopper carved into his likeness, which may be one of the many tourist souvenirs made from a mulberry tree cut down in Shakespeare's Stratford garden in the 1750s.

'Thousands of of Welsh people will be forced to move and adapt; they will become #climate migrants'. Fascinating to see @mateoy.bsky.social's 'Seascape' in conversation with two other vital books about our changing coastlines in @thetls.bsky.social Discover more: www.the-tls.co.uk/world/travel...