Traumatised friends, how do you know if you're trying to help because you like helping and it's a good thing, or if you're trying to help because your nervous system relies on being in control and believes that every problem is your fault. Asking for a, er, friend.

This year, NAG Seminar and Forum is celebrating people; all the human factors that go towards making Library Acquisitions work. Without people, a library would just be a silent room of books. Come & join us and hear about the people making it happen! Nottingham 20-21 May nag.org.uk/events/ #NAGcd16

I did yoga before work for once and was so relaxed I forgot to then start work. Highly recommend.

Am I feeling happier and brighter or did I have a filter coffee at 4pm

I've deleted tiktok and Instagram because I'm sick of being addicted to scrolling. So I live here now. 👋

Do you work in acquisitions and collections in libraries? Do you have a project you could talk about for 30 minutes? Join NAG in Nottingham this year for a very special 2-day event, speakers (up to two) speakers get free tickets and UK travel expenses! nag.org.uk/cfp-2026/

Bed at 10:30, outfit laid out... Ha, best laid plans. Brain decided to go completely haywire for 3 hours. Stayed home for first day back. Oh well, it's icy out anyway.

In 2025 I •came back from the brink •started doing gratitude •finally managed to do yoga regularly •got my dream job, temporary though it may be (for now) •visited Florence, and presented to international librarians in Siena •supported my best friends as they launched into parenthood •read 20 books

Anyone else out there working from home on Vodafone and therefore not working from home? I've been ill and a bit overwhelmed for a few weeks and I took the opportunity to mop the kitchen floor. I MOPPED THE KITCHEN FLOOR. Very proud of myself.

Wow my anxiety is through the roof today. Might try to revive my dead blog, Anxious Librarians. It was apt then and it's apt now.

Petition to add single's nights to conference social events. If you think I'm joking then I'm joking. If you think it could work then schedule it plz.

They've lost the 9yos

Woops got COVID

Funnily enough Outlook, if I'm reading or writing an email, and flip to my calendar to check something, I'd quite like to be returned to the email I was working on???? Radical I know.

"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.

See this quoted thread for highlights from the lead author of this important paper! My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵

5 hours to home

It's awful but I do miss the more lively discussions had on the bird app during library conferences. Cmon get your butts on bluesky.

As ever I feel extremely lucky to be able to attend, present, appreciate, criticise, eat, drink, and be merry, at the international group of ex libris users conference. 4 years in a row! #igelu2025

How is the presumably vast energy increase from embedding AI into every single product and task and search being measured and offset, particularly considering Clarivate's goal to be net zero by 2040? #igelu2025

At least I've given the Italian mosquitos something to snack on After 3 days in Florence, I arrived in Siena, headed to the first pharmacy I saw, and just said, 'Buena Sera... Le Zanzare!'

Just remembered that my flounce around Florence is actually a work trip and I have to do work things tomorrow? Crazy

Heading to Florence today!

On Monday I'll be starting a new role as Library Management Systems Administrator, fixed term until December 31st aahhhhhhh

One of the things I keep telling teachers and students is that when you use genAI, you don't always know if the result it cranks out is plagiarized or not. If you use copy/paste that text or even just use it as a quote, you could be plagiarizing without even knowing it.

If you see this post a robot:

Pop Six Squish Uh-uh

When you don't win the toy at the webinar but 2 weeks later 3 are hand delivered to your office 🤯 @technologyfromsage.bsky.social thank you and thank you to your son for attending Exeter Uni otherwise my desk would be devastatingly turtleless right now

Let's say I was in a position to interview for a systems librarian post within the next 2 months - any advice?

On the lookout for more UK/EU/Global librarians to follow. My feed is currently overwhelmingly US, and while it's important, it's real bleak (I'm so sorry) and I need to know more about what's happening here and elsewhere.

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

Starting this one today

Also trying desperately to carve a niche for myself and develop skills that might help me finally permanently progress in libraries

Attending Librarian Futures: Academic Libraries in the AI Age this morning. I think AI has shoved environmentalism to one side in terms of what we are talking about in the library sector. But also I want to win a llama. #LibrarianFutures @technologyfromsage.bsky.social

Not sure how I survived that but I did 🤣 fellow PTSD/ND/otherwise disabled people, what do you do when you have a 'bad day' happen when you've got a conference?

A Lego related meltdown? That's a new one

I've been feeling pretty disillusioned lately so it's actually really nice to get back into things with a lovely sector event

Booking is open! Join us in celebrating NAG's 40th birthday at our 15th Collection Development Seminar for Academic Libraries this year in Leeds on 15th May. Full programme now available: nag.org.uk/event/semina... #NAGcd15 📚

Join us for a NAG Coffee and a Chat extra biscuit special: "Clarivate announcement - where now?" on Wed 12th March at 12 noon for a closed forum discussion about next steps and sharing ideas. nag.org.uk/event/extrac...

If my disabilities could stop disabling me that'd be great

Time to check out our Luke's library refurb 😍 pics to follow

It is likely that I will be able to go to igelu again this year 🥳 ITALY BABYYYY

I think using the plagiarising pollution machine for, say, lesson planning or email writing because it's convenient and saves time, should be treated the same way as just dumping all of your rubbish into the street because it's quicker than having to use a bin.

Interlibrary loan woes. When the metadata from the community zone is sparse, wrong, and/or unhinged. If you know you know.

Taken a Friday off work to go charity shopping in Teignmouth with an old colleague 🥰

Reasons it's okay to have a bit of a moan on social media - lovely people you met at conferences might send you things 😍 thank you so much! @manuschwendener.ch In honour of my rendition of Poor Unfortunate Souls at IGeLU karaoke 🎤

Why, WHY, does making something a numbered list change the font?! WHAT.

2024 was a year of realising I've been living with undiagnosed ADHD my whole life, prising myself free of anti-depressants, 8 weeks total signed off, a couple of phased returns (bleeding into Jan 2025). It's been really rough but hopefully things will be clearer going forwards. Baby steps!

This is a bit mopey but anyone else out there found their career go nowhere due to chronic health problems? I get sad when I see the term early career librarian because I have been doing this for nearly 8 years, even got the qualification, only to feel stuck at the bottom?

🤣 Gill's on the rob #gbbo