From stunning old webpages to personal archives like ancient DeviantArt drawings, the Wayback Machine preserves art, experiences, and data that might otherwise vanish. Its existence keeps our digital creativity alive—and our memories safe. 💾🎨 #Wayback1T

Sent by Slovenian friend to make me smile amidst the horror ..

If you’d like to find out more about Marie Antoinette’s life either before or after visiting the exhibition, you can listen to me on @gregjenner.bsky.social You’re desd to me www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or on In our Time with @catrionaseth.bsky.social in 2018 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

💡 "There’s substantial evidence of independent benefits on skills development, self-esteem, sense of wellbeing, civic engagement and openness to diversity." 💬 @bobbyduffy.bsky.social spoke to the Guardian about whether it still pays to go to university ➡️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Fanfic can be profitable!

David Bowie's archive opens to the public this week, revealing a treasure trove of unrealized projects and personal items.

Absolute legends: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings

Library & Archives Open Day (free) 19 September 2025 When: 10.00 - 16.00 Where: Lasting Impressions Gallery (red zone) Our team have developed four themed displays: 🐋 Whales, science and conservation 🌱 Ordering and naming nature ✏️ Writing from the field ❄️ Polar expeditions #NaturalHistoryMuseum

The term ‘hobbyist’ applied to unfunded research is derogatory. This would seem to be about allowing only academics with grants time to undertake research, and increasing those on teaching only contracts, in order to reduce overall staffing. The result is a much diminished uni sector.

Life needs more cats 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ There used to be one at the Barbican station in London. I recall replacement kittens but I haven’t seen them in years. More cats!

Uh huh. Why did it take so long?

Resign.

2025 Library Systems Report - platform upgrades, new leadership, and #AI enhancements #libraries via @mbreeding.bsky.social

Short weekend read for fans of the show and anyone crushing on Jackson Lamb for his compelling ‘no figs left to give’ attitude to authority. #SlowHorses #MickHerron

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder. Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow. Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years

The Institute of English Studies & the School of Advanced Study are saddened to announce the death of Ian Willison on 27 August 2025. Ian devoted his time and boundless energy to supporting the IES, which will be forever indebted to him for his vision & generosity. ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Here it is! The proceedings from #FanLIS2025 are now up at ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol12/...! Thank you to all the speakers who contributed to putting this out, and once again making #FanLIS what it is! 🥰🫡🥳

Proceedings from our 5th FanLIS Symposium held earlier this year, 2025. Huge thanks to @ludiprice.bsky.social and Tim Gorichanaz 😎 ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol12/...

View across the Royal Albert Dock earlier today, looking towards London City Airport. Hard to image the working docks looking at today’s calm expanse of water. It’s one of my favorite places to take a stroll.

Sober reading for the start of September, heralding a new academic year -

Dark matter and information revisited. Gravity and entropy. Einstein and railway timetables. New blog post. theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/08/29/d...

This post by Mike Olsen is essential reading for LIS students and practitioners. Independent organisation of knowledge is essential to a civil society. The record of humankind should not be blithely handed over to AI or for profit entities. Nobody should control your view of the catalogue.

As universities face financial crises, more economic models of operation are needed. Digital transformation is a key phrase associated with current changes to HE, and recorded, online content will likely become more usual. Face-to-face teaching is resource intensive, even if preferable.

Intellectual freedom leader to fight effects of censorship www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fac... #ChangingFaces

🎉Amazing news! We are thrilled to announce that Introduction to Documentation Studies by Niels Windfeld Lund has won the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award 2025 🏆 Learn more about the book and the award 👇 www.asist.org/2025/08/13/i...

Imagine Excel but 5000 years ago… Early tablets like this one were used for administrative purposes to record the storage and distribution of goods, animals and people. This tablet comes from Jemdet Nasr, the remains of an ancient site in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). 📝 AN1926.583

Great that so many folks want to go to uni. But, who is going to teach them? Do these hopeful students understand what has happened to unis? Many redundancies and course cancellations. Fewer options/electives, and larger classes. Higher fees. HE should not be like this. www.ucas.com/corporate/ne...

Why everything is complex. The law of increasing functional information. New blog post. theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/08/16/w...

Pleased to have spent time earlier today with colleagues from @unistrathclyde.bsky.social as external examiner for Salah Kashlot. “Exploring the influence of information overload in the context of digital learning tools. Congratulations to Salah and the supervisory and examination teams.

Another excerpt from my contribution to the LIS Forward collection on LIS and iSchool > On the dissemination of ideas and innovation www.lorcandempsey.net/on-the-disse...

Today is the birthday of Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor. His final library, from his time on St Helena, has been cataloged on LibraryThing as part of our Legacy Libraries project. #NapoleonBonaparte #💙📚 #Booksky

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online

PEN America on White House review of exhibits at the Smithsonian: "The administration’s efforts to rewrite history are a betrayal of our democratic traditions and a deeply concerning effort to strip truth from the institutions that tell our national story." Full statement: pen.org/press-releas...

There’s a rare opportunity to see a huge book, one of only two known surviving choirbooks from the reign of Henry VIII, as it’s currently on display at Lambeth Palace Library. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/kin...

Do you read fanfiction? Can you help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student Khushi Shokeen with her research by completing her survey, please? (Please share!) forms.office.com/pages/respon...

📢 #EuropeanaAcademy is open for business! Join our free, online course on how to prepare image collections in the #IIIF standard for Europeana. Enhance online viewing quality, enable zoom functions & share your collections widely. 📅 3 Sep 2025, 10.00 - 12.00 CEST 🔗 bit.ly/3URZLZy #CulturalHeritage

Not in the UK, alas. 🐈‍⬛

Ugh. I have used Apple products for decades - this is sickening. Trump is not someone any sane person can work with. Bad call Tim.

The road to surveillance hell may be paved with good intentions… @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warbur...

We are hosting the UK premiere of the powerful documentary, ‘The Librarians’, directed by Kim A. Snyder. Come and join us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the screening, a panel discussion, and drinks! Co-organised with @rsliterature.bsky.social visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...

I have reached the stage of information avoidance as the torrent of utterly unbelievable news from the US becomes impossible to process by any rational means.

Ever since humanity learned to write, we’ve used pictures to make reading easier, and now an exhibition looks at the evolution of the pictogram in public signs. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/sig...

‘Studies and libraries existed in many cultures. Hui’s book is all the richer for its insistence on taking the reader, like a modern Mephistopheles, across the world.’ Anthony Grafton reviews two books on early modern libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Seeing several somewhat negative posts around Proquest’s move to leasing content vs buying outright, and it’s fervent use of AI summaries. This article from earlier this year provides useful background. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

A university education still increases earning potential with the exception of taking a course in the creative arts. Men gain more earning advantage than women. Interesting stats on earnings related to subject choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

We are living in sinister times where universities agree to become state controlled mouthpieces www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...