In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder: The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.

Here's Sandy Berman's whole self-interview lowereastsidelibrarian.info/interviews/s... He starts with "Q: Should ALA really be celebrating its 150th anniversary?" "A: No. Instead, it should be devoting its energy and resources to atoning for its checkered history" and continues in that vein.

For both public & academic libraries the breakdown of what is spent on print books vs ebooks can be a tricky balance for breadth of users, value for money & more! Join this discussion w/ @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social - free & open to all on Tues 20th Jan 11am register here: nag.org.uk/event/chatja...

This looks brill! More dates to come 18th, 20th, 24th, 27th Dec £15 for the guided walk book here: www.lambethtourguides.org/event-detail...

Hackney libraries jobs! jobs.theguardian.com/job/9971929

Congrats @kslater.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Annual Library Juice Paper Contest for “Against AI: critical refusal in the library” - link below litwinbooks.com/kailyn-slate...

Really useful write up of this year’s LILAC conference (annual library event about information literacy) by Ileana Thomson in the latest Journal of information literacy (OA) journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/...

Really good day at the @cilipmdg.bsky.social Worldcafé style meeting on alternatives to LCSH! Excellently organised - lots to think about shelf ready metadata, consortia catalogues, skills and legacy… also very cool to learn of the London institutions (Kings and Wellcome) now using Homosaurus

We've just hit send on this month's MDG Bulletin - check it out for news and events for #metadata & #cataloguing professionals. 📚📖🐈 email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2U19H-4...

We're excited to announce our FREE open-access #CILIPMembersFest26. The festival will again offer a selection of exciting workshops, trainings & discussions co-programmed by CILIP and our groups & networks. Explore our programme & book 👉 https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/MembersFest26#CILIPMembersFest26📅2 - 6 March 2026

How cool to hear about this accordion book project! Had not known this format’s name before - in Greece university children’s lit students worked with under 5s to make their own books #EUROLIS

Adélaïde Boulanger details the French Pompidou library’s accessibility services including software to adapt books to digital formats under copyright exceptions in EU law #EUROLIS

Fascinating that @britishlibrary.bsky.social collect LGBTQ+ books from Russia as they are censored or restricted - Hanna Dettlaff-Kuznicka talks of books with sections crossed out #EUROLIS

Today will be at #EUROLIS - looking forward to hearing about librarianship best practice from across Europe

For truly equitable metadata perhaps we need to look beyond ROI and catalogue the obscure titles with content outside of the mainstream first - personally that as a reader is the stuff I’m looking for! #NAGWebinarWeek

I’ll be live posting @annewelsh.bsky.social helping us all with shelf-un-ready issues over here on this thread! Follow along

Really looking forward to more from #NAGWebinarWeek tomorrow w/ What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? w/ @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing. booking info: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ - free & open to all I feel like it might open a can of shelf un-ready worms!

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

I’ve received the UK Up-and-Coming Wikimedian of The Year Award 2025! Thank you if you voted for me

Demystification from librarians on how authority control identifiers can we added within catalogue records during #NAGWebinarWeek

Metadata from @manchesterup.bsky.social includes titles, authors, blurb, BIC BISAC thema, print and ebook ISBNs which is sent months ahead to Manchester University Library for MARC21 creation so information is available pre-print at BIC silver level metadata quality accreditation #NAGWebinarWeek

Looking forward to this webinar later - still time to sign up! Free and open to all

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

@indexers.bsky.social invites @cilipmdg.bsky.social members to its next Coffee Morning Zoom meeting on Thursday 20th November at 11am. The topic is indexing feminist texts – books whose authors have applied feminist analysis or a related critical framework. More at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Great day coming up at Bookseller crow! 6th Dec. Lots of authors visiting crystal palace to sign books! Info here booksellercrow.co.uk/event/christ...

We will be flogging mags, t-shirts, totes, badges and more this Saturday. Come and find our table at Brixton Library. 12pm kick off. Pints after, probably.

This Saturday!

Excited to be speaking at EUROLIS next week about routes to inclusive participation in library services, such as @wikimediauk.bsky.social partnerships, zine & book fairs, self published & small press works in library stock and more!

📚 EUROLIS Seminar 2025 Open Libraries. Equity Across and Beyond the Shelves 🗓️ Fri 21 Nov | 🕘 10–4:30 | 📍 Europe House, London Join library professionals from across Europe to explore inclusion, openness & innovation in libraries. 🎟️ Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eurolis-seminar-2025

Coming up at Brixton Library @stanchionbooks.bsky.social LONDON FOOTBALL BOOK MARKET Sat 15th Nov stalls include football books, zines, comics and replica kits from @theblizzard.bsky.social @lowerblock.bsky.social OOF, Pitch Publishing and much more! FREE entry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...

Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November. Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies. Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics

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Any recommendations for any books nominated in the Carnegie’s (or anything published in the past year) for under 2s? carnegies.co.uk/illustration...

Are you a cataloguer or interested in cataloguing and have a view on whether LCSH is fit for purpose in a UK context? CILIP MDG @cilipmdg.bsky.social are hosting a Worldcafe event (a big meeting basically!) to discuss ideas at Wellcome Library in London Wed 26th Nov www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Would you be interested in starting a Wikipedia editing meetup at your library? I’ll be doing a lightning talk on how we run our Lambeth Libraries meetups at the Wikimedia UK online community celebration, Sat 15th Nov - if it inspires you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-wik...

Another busy Wikipedia meet-up at my library this evening, wow! Lots of talk about reliable sources, AI, watch pages, phobia pages and project pages. Come to our next Brixton meetup Mon 1 Dec 2025 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/...

Delve into Lambeth's Black history with our Wikipedia edit-a-thon this coming Monday 20th Oct at Lambeth Archives, still a few spaces! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lambeth-bl... @wikimediauk.bsky.social #BHM2025

Last night I went to a talk by housing campaigners @kwajo.bsky.social and Peter Apps at Brixton Library about the housing crisis in the UK, and wrote about it for @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/10/hous...

Coming up at Brixton Library @stanchionbooks.bsky.social LONDON FOOTBALL BOOK MARKET Sat 15th Nov stalls include football books, zines, comics and replica kits from @theblizzard.bsky.social @lowerblock.bsky.social OOF, Pitch Publishing and much more! FREE entry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...

Even if I didn’t have a personal interest in librarians, I would be urging all of you with access to iPlayer to watch this documentary www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... It’s about the censorship of books in US school libraries but also about how right wing money, not facts, is influencing politics.

Our #GreenLibraries Conference is less than 20 days away and tickets are going fast. Join us for a day packed with inspiring talks, practical insights, and powerful discussions about sustainability in libraries. Explore the full programme and book TODAY: www.cilip.org.uk/page/greenli...

This was such a great couple of days at TNA! @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy It was really great to bring add knowledge of authority control and Wikidata to a team of coders and digital preservationalists ! A wonderful way to learn new skills www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/resear...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data www.ft.com/content/d101... (£) #encryption #e2ee #masssurveillance

Excited for our Black History Month programme this month - highlights include Rita Keegan 23 Oct, Wikipedia editathon 20 Oct, zine making 29 Oct & especially looking forward to the launch of our Black Interest Core Collection www.lambeth.gov.uk/black-histor... @wikimediauk.bsky.social #Lambeth

At Lambeth Archives we are recruiting a Borough Archivist, details: effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share!

Celebrating NAG's 40th anniversary, the next of our "Spotlight on the Chair" blogs is live with our 2017-2020 Chair, Alison Harland: nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-... @bookgirla.bsky.social #NAGstalgia

Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as a leading officer & inform the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers in UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...

Black History Month all-dayer at Clapham library Brixton Immortals Domino Club is hosting a marathon free Black History Month extravaganza and celebration of Black heritage on Saturday 25 October at Clapham Library. A cultural cornerstone of Brixton since the 1970s, the Immortals are inviting…

Our wikipedia meetup is back at Brixton Library next Mon 29th Sept at 6pm, thanks to @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social for the write up! www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/09/hone...