Been meaning to read this for years, and it is slightly slow going, but every time I start getting bored by descriptions of the sublime Italian landscape, someone gets kidnapped.

Today I finally saw a doctor about my stupid knee and he was very nice and thorough and took it seriously (unlike the doctor 3 years ago who laughed at me because I was 30 and 'knees click'). Blood tests tomorrow, X-ray at some point in the near future. Gotta call the physio.

Yesterday. Newcastle to Torquay. Broken train at Derby. Unlikely friends in 33 degree temps. Crowded vestibules. Standing in carriage aisles. A can of Stella from a kind stranger. A shared taxi from newton abbot, paid by another kind stranger. ☀️

And that's a wrap! We had a fabulous time in Nottingham for #NAGcd16 and we hope you did too - please give us your delegate feedback at tinyurl.com/nag2026 to help us plan 2027

Now having a coffee in the Pride Shop in Nottingham and about to spend all my money 🌈

Very proud of myself for doing a live presentation to probably the biggest crowd I've faced so far, and being on my first live panel! NAG is the perfect place to face any fears you may have around public speaking, as it provides the kindest captive audience you could hope for

NAG’s panel session has just begun, featuring speakers from papers 6 and 7, talking about wellbeing collections #NAGcd16

Staying with the wellbeing theme, next up we have "User-powered wellbeing and leisure collections" with Aster Weyer-Brown and Elle Lund from @exeterunilib.bsky.social #NAGcd16

Be honest, how many of you filled a glass with undiluted cordial #nagcd16

NAG is starting later on day 1 to allow people to travel here. As I live in Devon, I came over last night, and am now enjoying the most unhurried conference morning of my life.

No Brian (my name for *that* part of my brain) we didn't leave the tap running #travelanxiety

I got to visit our clinical skills research centre today to make sure we have libcal configured right for them. So. Many. Terrifying. Mannequins.

Oh the difficulty of packing for a week away when the temperature is about to radically change 😂 woe woe is me

Burnout is calling and I am very grumpy

I'm getting interns for a couple weeks! 🥳 They're getting ME for a couple weeks! 😱

Back on a dating app, we shall see how long it lasts this time. People are using Ai generated pictures now 🫣 at least makes some decision making easier

I'm off for a week, in a week's time! NAG conference in Nottingham and then some time in Sunderland with my bestie. Can't wait and need a break but VERY ANXIOUS about the amount that I need to get done by then. And when I get back it'll be nearly June?!?!?

Good lord I have so much to learn 🫣

Loving the Beatles hold music on the EPUG conference zoom 😂

I bribed myself into leaving the house

Yap.

This week I am *not* experiencing an intense wave of post socialising anxiety 🤔 I like it

Bookings are now closed for NAG Seminar & Forum 2026! As our flagship event is just around the corner, here are 5 excellent reasons to join & support NAG in doing its important work from @librarianth.bsky.social librarianth.home.blog/2026/04/30/5...

Got my Jiscmails in a row! All 29 of them...

It is my 8 month anniversary of my systems role. While I am still wildly out of my depth, I at least feel I now have the equivalent of a pool noodle of knowledge to keep me from drowning. Apologies for the tortured metaphor but I am very very tired 😂

Today I was wondering how I might start getting into writing articles for professional publication. Girl you are the editor of a librarianship journal MAYBE START THERE.

Every time I realise I'm missing a jiscmail I go to jiscmail realise I'm missing a lot of jiscmail try to sign up to too many jiscmail get flagged as spoofing by jiscmail and get kicked out of the new jiscmails

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

I dreamt that due to some kind of clerical error I had a position as an English Literature academic (despite in reality dropping out of my PhD after 2 months in 2016) and that I was going to write a book about the parallels between vampirism and billionaires 😂 alternate timeline 🤔

Love being confident enough to bring people together Hate being neurotic enough to hate myself afterwards for talking too much while trying to encourage conversation 😅

Is anyone else not having replies loading on bluesky? Let me innnnn I want to see what people are sayinggggg

Come see me talk about wellbeing collections in front of a... A massive organ apparently! What a space!

Ever heard of the CONARLs scheme? It's a way of accessing cheaper interlibrary loans by both libraries agreeing to a fee of £6.00. Open to all libraries & free to join. Come and chat to librarians who use it at our next NAG Members Coffee and Chat event on Wed 22nd April nag.org.uk/event/chatap...

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. 🧵