any rare book/archives oomfs who have a CZUR M3000 Pro scanner (www.czur.com/product/m300...)? Looking to buy one for some internal scanning (not digitization or patron services), and I've been very unhappy with KIC scanners for anything that isn't a run-of-the-mill book

The Labour Party decided to kick off LGBT Pride month by having their new Health Secretary disavow his previous support for trans rights and spout transphobic rhetoric. Labour is irredeemable. Its defeat can't come soon enough. archive.today/jfMFG

I guess I'll keep shouting this message from the rooftops until it sticks. Lumping disparate technologies under the ✨"AI"✨ label only inhibits clear discussion and reasoning about what each does. >>

I stepped off the library dean path when it became clear that this would be the job--managing the end of academic libraries as we know them. Please know that these changes are just a result of defunding. They do not herald some bright digital future. There will just be less access to knowledge.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

Collections policies exist for a reason. We've had lots of people trying to give us documents, even when we've been at events across the county and have no way of safely taking the documents back to the archive. Sadly we have to turn these people away, but this is for the benefit of the documents.

We should all bear in mind that Google is neither positioned to effectively steward the information ecosystem for the public good nor incentivized to do so. >>

Wes Streeting recently, unprompted, said "it's not like I'm some kind of Christian religious bigot" talking to parents of trans kids. But he's putting people in charge of NHS trans healthcare who are funded by LITERALLY the same Christian conservative organisations that brought Trump to power.

"Vendor values aren't librarianship values" Understatement of the century

I’m SO proud of Rebeca and really looking forward to her next moves! The Lilly is lucky to have her ☺️

OMG! My first finished PhD student published his first article with @cambridge.org! Genuinely fascinating that he discovered this dinner and used that moment to think through the networks of sociability & their impact on politics #RecusantsBaby! #EarlyModern www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

instead of punching down on KIDS

I got time today, so let's dig into why this article is a crock of shit. There is no ethical use of genAI and any librarian arguing otherwise is lying to you, so ignorant they should be ignored, or drifting. 1/ www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...

A new blog post from the brilliant @ellenwerner.bsky.social about some of her discoveries in our collections

Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now. Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

Next Wednesday! Georgina Wilson on 'Paper and the Making of #earlymodern Literature' - join us online or in person, book via the link below.

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

Attention #earlyModern #bookHistory and #earlyMusic types! You have to the end of the week to register for the @dormeme16.bsky.social conference Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe, at KCL. Registration and the brilliant programme are at www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...

I do think this is true. I'm often guilty myself of underplaying what the work I do looks like or how much time and effort it takes. Research isn't 'just reading' or a question of sucking up summaries others have created. It's knowledge creation. So let me go through the process with an example 1/

This is a fabulous thread of what research looks like in the humanities.

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

📚 Lost, Found… and stuffed up a chimney?! In the 1800s, Librarian John Taylor Allen made an astonishing discovery: Humphrey Chetham’s private papers, hidden up his chimney and nearly lost forever. 🔍 Discover our new exhibition on our blog: library.chethams.com/blog/lost-and-found-in-the-library

Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians

my kingdom for a single journalist at the BBC, or any other major news org, to push back and point out that 1) settlement is not automatic, and then 2) ask the home office why they have been repeatedly lying about this for months

I added more imprints to a corpus with enough going on, and I found another woman in the London book trades that has been assumed to be a man. Meet Sarah Surman Cliff Cruttenden. She trades as S. Cliff and S. Cruttenden. Sources assume man, so no one caught a woman as the same person with 3 names.

In case you're interested: here is a list of recent accessions in #HistSTM at the @uomlibrary.bsky.social Special Collections blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

they'll be convenient enemies regardless of what they do, that's playing out in the states right now. you can bend over backwards to appease fascists and it will never work, because their whole ideology is irrational and premised on the idea of purging enemies. they need enemies to function

we migrated to alma/primo (barf) and are forced to use consortia records, which means we have to use outdated subject headings and can't use our own 69X local fields. has anyone else dealt with this and found a workaround, or a way to advocate for change? #critcat

Graphic design is my passion, but make it early modern: There's a book called _Principe en la idea_, and someone got new type & wanted to use ALL of it, or the author wanted to have a 22-page title page? & the body has an entire column for footnotes? books.google.com/books?id=EP1... #BookHistory

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

if you were unable to attend Erin McGuirl's Winship Lecture, "No Modern Publishing Without Women" at Houghton Library, the recording is now live! 📜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCs...

Discover how queer studies, book history, and visual culture intersect in this fascinating essay collection, and how a variety of media have helped shape queer community – from zines, to romance novels, to social media. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4kvJE00 University of Pennsylvania #BookHistory

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you missed the recent @uksg.bsky.social webinar on Open Access and AI, the recording, our slides, and our responses to the (many!) questions we did not have time to get to in the session itself, are now available on the UKSG website. 📚 #AcademicSky #OpenAccess

U Kentucky Libraries is hiring a tenure track Electronic Resources Librarian. It's a great place to work! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/622...

By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p... Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️

When the premise is that _anyone_ can vibe-code a new application--and don't get me wrong, it's a glorious vision in underserved fields--I worry that these sustainability tasks aren't even on the radar.

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller. Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp

Feeling a bit melancholic now that (my fourth!!) Queer Bibliography is over! But what a great time with so many colleagues, collaborators, and friends— in person in Athens, GA 🍑 and those who joined us on Zoom. Onwards to next year’s! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 📖

Listening to MIKA during a book arts studio shift — is this #queerbibliography ?

If you've enjoyed my posting about #QueerBib26, have no fear--Queer Bibliography will be back in 2027! It will be hybrid. The best way to not miss the CfP is to sign up for the QUEERBIB listserv, which you can do at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/QUEERBIB.

I'm back for Session 10 of #QueerBib26, "Sexology and Intersex Bodies"! First up is bri watson @brimwats.com, presenting "Queerness as Isochronicity."

I'm back for Day 2 of #QueerBib26! Starting my day with session 8, DIY (unfortunately missing session 9, on libraries and archives, held contemporaneously).

Traces of information systems past: interlibrary loan admin infrastructure, and the British National Book Centre rehoming works from Stoke Newington to the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. #GLAMS #BookHistory #LibraryHistory 📚