New to vernacular architecture and want to find out more? Why not come along to our training and study weekend at Sutton Courteney Abbey in Oxfordshire on 4-5 October 2025, and discover how we go about examining buildings? Further details at www.vag.org.uk/conferences.....

whereisheavenfilm.com 💚 Well heaven once was Devon for me, but now I find that rural Worcestershire is pretty fantastic, too. This is a fab film, wherever your off-grid heaven might be 💚

Just the best time at #Icepops2025! Such lovely people, all with a passion for copyright! Held at the wonderful #JohnRylandsResearchInstituteandLibrary @uomlibrary.bsky.social Thank you @jsecker.bsky.social & @cbowiemorrison.bsky.social for organising it all! @copyrightliteracy.bsky.social 😊

Not the only institutions to do this over the next couple of years, I’m sure. The idea of a ‘super-University’ is nonsense, stated in a bid to try and make this sound like a good thing. Oh dear … www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Who could have predicted, etc.

Beautiful example of effectively an oral history and its archival significance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My 8-year-old son and I are greatly saddened by the death of the wonderful Tom Lehrer, so good was he that even this gaming, digitally-savvy kid of mine loves his songs. RIP #TomLehrer & may the Vatican Rag be played on the other side www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In raptures finding this wall today - Castle Place, #Worcester

Very excited to discover this is on! (Just when I’ve popped down to Devon, too!) Will obviously have to go. www.theboxplymouth.com/events/exhib... Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes | The Box Plymouth

If I've been rather quiet of late, that's because there's not much to say now about the university crisis. We've passed beyond the stage at which warnings can do much good, and we're not looking at a planned reconstruction or new policies so much as individual rescue and salvage. (1/?)

Goodbye from #darts9! Thank you to all our amazing speakers and delegates - it’s been a superb conference!

Completely agree - research support should be for everyone! @lucywoolhouse.bsky.social & #FrankieMarsh #Darts9

@lucywoolhouse.bsky.social & #FrankieMarsh Workshop on making open research more inclusive. #TechniciansCommitment #darts9

@ducollections.bsky.social Special Collections are a key part of the research infrastructure #StuartHunt #darts9

#StuartHunt is our post-prandial speaker #darts9 ‘From Research Enabler to Researcher’ @durhamuniversity Flourish@Durham creates more ownership at institutional level for open scholarship

#StuartHunt is our post-prandial speaker. Stuart’s role encompasses #SpecialCollections @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

Two key (& big!) questions for @drbeth.bsky.social’s workshop - which would be good to reflect on in our day-to-day jobs, I think - “As managers, how do we support people doing research?” “As researchers, what do we ask for from managers?” #darts9

@drbeth.bsky.social just starting her workshop Leading Research Practitioners: Support Where It Is Needed. #darts9

Many challenges to being a practitioner researcher @alicecann.bsky.social but huge personal, institutional (and beyond) benefits #darts9

@alicecann.bsky.social was transformed by the experience of the #RLUK Research Catalyst Cohort, in creating her self-identity as a ‘researcher librarian’ & developing as an evidence synthesis librarian. #darts9

@alicecann.bsky.social talking about being a researcher librarian. As a result of her journey, she now sees herself as a teaching-led researcher. Experience & growth in self-perception / -confidence 💚 #darts9

Day 2 begins! #TimWales talking about publishing #darts9 Tip no1: start small (eg internal newsletters); no2: be bold (seize opportunities to publish in bigger publications); no3: write & publish a case study

Goodnight from #darts9 after a beautiful evening filled with excellent food, wine & conversation.

We’ve had a fab first half day at #darts9 and still the drinks reception & dinner to come yet today! If lunch is anything to go by, dinner will be superb 🩷 Just time to go for a pre-drinks walk in the lovely grounds #StantonHouseHotel

#gilliansiddall speaking about visual research using participatory photography / photovoice #darts9

#KimDavis pointing out possible outputs that can involve practice-based research material #darts9

#CatherineDack & #KimDavis “Should librarians do research?” Yes! RLUK Research Catalyst Cohort Programme #darts9

There’s never nothing you can do; it’s not just about leadership - being a first (or 2nd or 3rd) follower is crucial. Lizzie Gadd #darts9

Our wonderful keynote speaker #drlizziegadd on her journey out of the library

Starting now with introduction from @mandystfc.bsky.social #darts9

A gentle start to our conference with coffee and pastries this morning at registration #darts9 We are loving the venue!

And I am here! Looking forward to all the great shenanigans we have lined up over the next two days! But first a good night’s kip! #darts9 @cilip-arlg.bsky.social #ResearchLibrariansRock

Great to be at @worcesteruni.bsky.social’s 3rd years’ student conference, School of Sport & Exercise Science, with our small display from the National #Basketball Heritage Collection with my fab colleague Katy Small. Original tickets from 1948 Olympics, & #JohnAtkinson, #GordonCole material

swheritage.org.uk/the-isca-pho... Interesting & necessary digitisation project work!

Such opulence at Sacred Heart & St Catherine of Alexandria RC church #Droitwich. Original drawings for the mosaics by #GabrielPippet currently being conserved by Worcs County Archives

The OABN is a working group within the @operaseu.bsky.social OA Books Special Interest Group (SIG). This post 👇 explains the development of a new working group within the same SIG, focused on open infrastructure for #OAbooks. Get in touch with the coordinators if you're interested in taking part!

The @royalhistsoc.org reports on the tragic and stupid cuts to university History provision in the UK. The RHS alone has worked with 23 depts in trouble, and 90% of post-92 History groups have made cuts. Madness. royalhistsoc.org/rhs-presiden...

We're excited to welcome Vicky Hunns, Director & Principal Heritage Consultant (Buildings & Places) at TDR Heritage, as a speaker at #IHBCShrewsbury2025 (12–14 June)! 📍 Find out more and book your place: shrewsbury2025.ihbc.org.uk

Lowering the Cost of Diamond Open Access Journals: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10424 #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #LibSky #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #AcademicChatter #DiamonOpenAccess #APC #ArticlePublishingCharge #Publishing

Petition to end the Badger cull stands at 81,055 6 weeks to hit the 100k goal! Keep sharing and signing people! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

A great team of colleagues from @chludens.bsky.social together with @unil.bsky.social are organising a very cool conference on the ‘History of video games from the players’ perspectives’ #GameStudies this September HERE you can find the #CFP: chludens.hypotheses.org/3389 @pachuki.bsky.social

Attending the Uni of London School of Advanced Studies’ fab ‘Born-Digital: Collections, Archives, Memory’ conference has brought interesting results! digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

We still have availability for our fab #Darts9 conference 21-22 May! Prices from £80+ VAT for day tickets to £360 + VAT for non-Cilip member full residential places. Residential tkts include all meals (incl conference dinner!) from Weds lunch time to Thursday afternoon. See arlgdarts.wordpress.com

Wonderful experience visiting #Elmfield #RudolfSteiner school recently in #Stourbridge. Heart, head, hand - & plenty of soul! 💚

If you want to know what the SW gate of South Cadbury hillfort was like in the Iron Age there's a brilliant Archaeological Journal @royalarchinst.bsky.social article by Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social et al you can read for FREE here 👇👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HillfortsWednesday

On #IWD I discovered Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, #NTMountStewart, N.Ireland, who founded the Women’s Legion in 1915.

'the humanities are relevant and they matter...They matter as we consider climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, the values we hold, & what kind of society we want to be.' We've launched a new #OpenAccess series, Humanities Futures: uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

Our fourth and final keynote speaker at the Summer Conference will be @aarontay.bsky.social, Head of Data Services at Singapore Management University Libraries. AI-Assisted Literature Review Tools for Undergraduates: Restrict, Curate, or Embrace? Our early bird rate ends today: bit.ly/3VFUx4f

Great to be wfh in #Belfast today @premierinn.bsky.social #TitanicQuarter has a lot more building work going on - further hotels, but have to question the impact on a sense of place, loss of #heritage feel this brings.