be a lighthouse #ALN26

how to reframe support and equity - make it difficult for staff to act in ways that don't support our users #ALN26

we have a moral duty to provide equitable access to everyone we serve #ALN26

Accessibility is not a problem you solve once. It's an ongoing relationship #ALN26

Presenting at @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social conference this morning all about Student Wellbeing (and belonging, and openness and inclusivity). with very yellow slides and lots of pictures and Billy 🐝 #ALN26

Final day of #UXLibs featured the reveal of the team challenge photo winners (unfortunately Team Dragon went unrecognised), the Llama Scale for energy levels, the last keynote, ending with the interactive workshops where we tried photo elicitation as research method, made phone charms and spun wool

Day 2 of #UXLibs saw bus drama, duck spotting, team challenges, more keynotes, the blossoming of the tree of knowledge and the Gala dinner

Day one of #UXLibs featuring cosy murder audiobooks and knitting on a train, wanders and wrong turns (traditional at this point), suprise meet ups with old colleagues, thought provoking key notes on belonging and trespasser syndrome, ending with batting cages and crazy pool (I am surprisingly good!)

Attending the inclusive employer network today to talk about working with Durham Enable with supported internships

Come and work with my lovely team!

I'll definitely take a blissful 2026

Our 8th annual Christmas wish tree is over. It's so lovely to have this every year, and to hear from the charities what it means for them and the people they support

Love our Christmas wish tree, so lovely to see the students getting excited about it and putting their presents under the tree

At the moment, you can visit the exhibition "Away From Home: The Untold Stories of Women Football Fans" at Maiden Castle! ⚽ Throughout history, women fans have always attended football matches. Usually, their stories get lost in the crowd, but this exhibition gives them a voice 📣

Come and work with my lovely, lovely team 😊

Love seeing the messages students leave for each other

Bill Bryson Library will be closed next Monday (25 August) for summer bank holiday 🏢 We'll be open again from 9am the next day 😊 For more information about opening times across all of our sites, visit our website 👉 libguides.durham.ac.uk/Libraries/ #DULib

Enchanted Objects – Adornment and Personal Protection from Amulets to the Mobile Phone has opened at #DUOrientalMuseum. Created by contemporary artist Dinah Kelly the installation highlights our ongoing interest in the power of charms, talismans and amulets. #contemporaryart #talismans

so jealous I'm missing this 😢 #ALN25

love this! #ALN25

not able to attend the in person day of #ALN25, but hoping to follow all the excitement on here

Love seeing the beautiful artwork and little notes the students leave for each other on our chalk wall

Brilliant to hear from the studentv partners themselves about what they've done in their roles, their reflections and what they've learnt

attending an #ALN online session this afternoon on working with students as partners. hopefully some good practical advise on getting students more involved in library services, supporting delivery and development

Thank you to everyone who took part in our wellbeing photo competition during Wednesday’s ALN online conference! 📸 We loved seeing your creative and inspiring submissions 🤩 Here’s a collage featuring some of the entries - swipe through to see them all ➡️ #ALN25

Twilight Talks - ‘Beasts and Legends: Adventures through North East Folklore’, Curating the Exhibition. Book on Eventbrite. Join the team at Palace Green Library share experiences of curating the exhibition. Discover artefacts from collections, and collaborative artworks by Ruth Flowers.

Remembering the #kindness keynote of #ALN25 and that yesterday our (mainly student) college librarians gave up most of their afternoon to show each other around their sites and talk about their services and their challenges, including this beautiful Norman castle

Create your own value and impact: learn, teach, develop (self and others) #ALN25

Recognising and highlighting the bias in AI to students #ALN25

Using the lived experiences of students as a way of explaining the importance and benefits of info literacy skills #ALN25

Designing sessions to allow for changes in attention by using different activities to re-engage students #ALN25

Promoting information literacy as a life skill, with impact far beyond a students academic career #ALN25

Machines need access too! For assistive technologies, data mining for research etc. #ALN25

Paywalls as a form of economic censorship #ALN25

Accessibility in terms of being perceivable, operable, understandable, robust #ALN25

Research output is not fully open access unless it's accessible #ALN25

Success is not always tangible, importance of impact that can't be easily recorded - feeling welcome and represented #ALN25

Building relationships with wider uni community to ensure representation through awareness months #ALN25

Using awareness months as opportunities to showcase collections beyond print and e-books #ALN25

Excited to learn about how other institutions promote collections through awareness months #ALN25

Importance of flexibility and creativity of spaces - are there alternative smaller spaces available which will meet user occupancy needs during quieter period (e.g. Christmas and Easter) that would allow closure of the bigger library #ALN25

Importance of a critical friend in reviewing processes, asking the awkward questions -why #ALN25

Changes to use behaviour following COVID - more self sufficient? #ALN25

Huddersfield looking at how to make rotaing of tasks more efficient #ALN25

Kindness doesn't end with intention, it begins with action #ALN25

Seeing kind goals, focus on wellbeing, values and flexibility #ALN25

Kindness begins with you - your inner voice, self compassion, setting boundaries, acknowledging self worth. And modelling this with others #ALN25

The importance of providing a safe work space: safe to fail, safe to be yourself #ALN25

The importance of transparency and honesty in kindness, and of being courageous and vulnerable #ALN25