This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks to Sally Kent & Eleanor Parmenter for sharing with #RLUKICIL reflections on @theul.bsky.social project w/ Zambian visual artists exploring new ways to engage with problematic material & collaborating outside library’s trad user base 📺 You can watch a recording of their talk at bit.ly/ICILOND

BBC News: The thriving village flooded to make water for Liverpool www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have you registered yet for our annual conference in Aberystwyth, 4-5 October? Registration deadline is 25 September! The conference is open to everyone and includes talks and films relating to the history of women in Wales. Visit our website for details: womensarchivewales.org/en/

In honour of #GingerCatAppreciationDay (which we're tempted to re-name #OdysseusAppreciationDay), here's our favourite marmalade-hued boy on a visit to the UL last week.

Why records surveys matter - Fiona Bourne from RCN sums it up record surveys = knowledge-organisational mapping, departmental analysis, records discovery, management, retention #ARA2025

I’ll be walking to remember the excellent Ronnie, but also her equally magnificent predecessors, Millie and Sally. @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

BBC News: Faces of Welsh convicts sent to Australia recreated by AI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mae ein gwirfoddolwyr yn gweithio ar ddetholiad o lyfrau lloffion a gasglwyd gan Ysgol Rhydfelen, yr ysgol gyfun Gymraeg gyntaf i agor yn ne Cymru yn 1962. Yn ôl y Pontypridd Observer, yn Niwrnod Agored cyntaf yr ysgol yn 1964, roedd rhieni yn "hapus iawn" 😊 #DyddMawrthTrawsgrifio

Our volunteers are working on a selection of scrapbooks compiled by Ysgol Rhydfelen, the first Welsh comprehensive school to open in south Wales in 1962. According to the Pontypridd Observer, at the school’s first Open Day in 1964, parents were “well pleased” 😊 #TranscriptionTuesday

Just another relatable National Trust sign

Laura Ford’s sculpture Beast on display in the Tigers & Dragons exhibition at Glynn Vivian, Swansea. A little forlorn; a reduced diminished power who may rise up one last time or who may weaken & fade away. Her figures have such presence it’s easy to believe they might suddenly twitch into life.

Hello Bluesky! We are a working partnership funded by Welsh Government to deliver a digital archives volunteer project. Our global family of remote volunteers work on digital collections to make them more accessible. More info here: gwentarchives.gov.uk/en/partnersh...

It’s been v exciting to see so much media interest in the amazing 1588 Welsh Bible loaned to @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social by Westminster Abbey for #CALCA2025 😍 Visitors to @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social today were also thrilled to get a glimpse!

This rare edition of the Bible from the Abbey's collection dates from 1588 and is the first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language. We're delighted to be lending the Bible to @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social‬ where it will go on public display for the first time this week.

Very much looking forward to attending the CALCA conference this week @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social and seeing this amazing Bible 😁 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welcome to the archives.

If you write abt 'the archive' but don't engage with or acknowledge archival studies literature ... please know that your arguments ▪️have no to limited validity ▪️remain theoretical, oblivious to arch praxis ▪️lack understanding and depth ▪️don't account for the infrastructure/materiality of archives

The cat that rules the library. Odysseus relaxing outside @theul.bsky.social last Sunday. #Caturday

BBC News: Bangor University to reconsider cuts to archive service www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💅Self-care, medieval style… 🛌Catch up on sleep 🥗Eat a good diet 🏊Do some exercise 🛀Have a bath We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures

'Bygwth dyfodol un o bileri Prifysgol Bangor' Mae dros 1,700 o bobl wedi arwyddo deiseb er mwyn arbed archifdy Prifysgol Bangor rhag toriadau posib

Alyn Giles Jones (1928-2000) Bangor University's first full-time archivist. "For him the safety of the documents in his care was paramount and he was prepared to stand up to the most senior academic colleagues in their defence". Professor A.D. Carr.

THE POPE'S MOM WAS A LIBRARIAN

I wish more people knew the long and important histories of many of our ‘post-92’ universities. They all-to-often get judged as being somehow lesser than the pre-92s, but so many of them have much longer and, frankly, more venerable histories.

Mae ein harddangosfa ar-lein ddiweddaraf yn archwilio hanes Bywydau Cudd Gweision Coleg Dewi Sant, Llambed sway.cloud.microsoft/AcOf8TuVPzhw... -- Our latest online exhibition explores the history of the Hidden Lives of the Servants of St Davids College, Lampeter sway.cloud.microsoft/Jt3VqAk8UB5A...

Beth arall fyddai gan Brifysgol yng Nghymru ond dreigiau! #LlyfrPCYDDS #AnifeiliaidArchif --- What else would a Welsh University have but dragons! #UWTSDlib #Archive30 #ArchiveAnimals

Some interesting pieces from our Special Collections have been featured in this Archives Wales article, A Road Trip Through the Archives! Take a look here: archives.wales/2025/03/07/a... #UWTSDlib #SpecialCollections

More details on the incredible lost medieval manuscript with rare stories from the Merlin and King Arthur legend discovered and now digitised (Image below of Merlin as a harpist at the court of Arthur -Vulgate du Merlin, BnF, fr. 749 f. 319 (c.1285)) cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

This wonderful plan of Trinity Training College, Carmarthen dates from October 1898. It includes rooms in which the college servants would have lived and worked in; the ironing room, boot room, buttery and sewing room. #ArchivePlan #uwtsdlib @uwtsd.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to see this gorgeous item get its time in the (metaphorical!) spotlight. And what an incredible and ingenious use of technology to access the faded, foldy bits... 👏👏👏 to my brilliant former colleagues @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social 😍 www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

BBC News: The 30-year quest to catch a national records thief www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others. Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

BBC News: Wales' slavery legacy explored in new play www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Snuggles with Tomball to brighten your day! 💝 Apply to adopt: TinyKittens.com/adopt Fall in love: TinyKittens.com/live Tomball is one of the most resilient, remarkable cats we've ever had the privilege of helping. Please share and help him find his purrfect home! #rescuecat #cuteanimals #cat

Odysseus!! 😍 I like to believe that he still thinks of me now and again after our many happy lunchtime encounters...😹

📢 Arddangosfa Casgliadau Arbennig: BYWYDAU CUD, Gweision Coleg Dewi Sant 📅 Mawrth 2025 📍 Llyfrgell PCYDDS Llambed, Y Fforwm #LlyfrPCYDDS #CasgliadauArbennig #Arddangosfa

📢 Special Collections Exhibition: HIDDEN LIVES, The Servants of St David’s College 📅 March 2025 📍 Lampeter Library, Y Fforwm #UWTSDlib #SpecialCollections #Exhibition

It's an early start when I go to Swansea for work - but worth it for the views from the train 🙂

Daffodils for #StDavidsDay! These beautiful varieties of daffodils are from an eighteenth-century French guide to plants. Image CUL CCF.47.33 (c. 1767) from the library of the Department of Plant Sciences, housed at #CambridgeUniversityLibrary. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! #LyfPCYDDS #DyddGwylDewi --- Happy St David's Day! #UWTSDlib #StDavidsDay

ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW @EmpirePodUK SERIES: IRELAND & EMPIRE Episode One- COLONISING IRELAND: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I & The Tudor Conquest of Ireland

Tomball, snacktivate! 😹💕 Tomball is a feral cat who was shot in the face, and in the leg. He shouldn't be alive today, but he refused to give up. 😭❤️‍🩹 Fall in love: TinyKittens.com/live #rescuecat #kitten #cuteanimals #adoptdontshop #animalrescue #tinykittens #feral #compassion

Today is #RandomActsofKindnessDay so we're giving people free access to books, information, free internet access and WiFi, a free warm space and a whole load of other stuff. FOR FREE. Just like every other day. ❤️ Libraries are amazing. #LoveLibraries

Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

This is a v clear, thoughtful article - with such an important message. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not just academics!