📣 #RLUK27 CALL FOR PAPERS | The Living Library, Shaped by People | 10-12 Mar | Belfast Research libraries are living infrastructures of knowledge & progress. A library’s life is expressed via evolution - #RLUK27 will explore how this ‘life’ is shaped. Read the full #CFP at rlukconference.com

Join us at Library and Learning Services at Buckinghamshire New University . We have two roles 1. User Engagement and Experience Librarian - Closing date 19 July - lnkd.in/ecqwDsd5 2. Senior Study Skills Advisor (Coaching and Engagement) - Closing date 18 July - lnkd.in/eEVw7aZg #LibraryJobs

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

Librarians recommendations, any you have read? #ReadingforPleasure

The Department for Education has confirmed that universities will receive £50.9 million less in teaching grants next academic year. Bridget Phillipson, the education minister has defended the reduction in light of tuition fee rises. https://ow.ly/6UWJ50ZkLlf

🗣️"In the arts, humanities, and social sciences, approaches to research are diverse, but often no less open than in their STEM counterparts" #OpenResearch #AcademicSky

And that's a wrap! Thank you for everyone who attended our Summer Conference! We hope you had a lovely time, learned a lot and made friends with other professionals! #bla26

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Fred Milton – Teeside University, for winning Leslie Baldwin award for his presentation: "Would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling librarians: Unmasking AI ghost and phantom references"! #bla26

A huge thank you to our wonderful #BLA26 conference organiser, Dan. And to the University of Brighton for hosting @blalib.org.

Nearly there for #bla26. Some members enjoying a tour of the library. We had our AGM, confirmed new Committee Member and last keynote by Cara Clarke and Algirdas Kraunaitis on “The Other Side” – Working as a lecturer and a librarian in a private provider of higher education. Safe travels.

The final #bla26 keynote is Cara Clarke and Algirdas Kraunaitis (our wonderful BlA Marketing officer), QA Higher Education on From “The Other Side” – Working as a lecturer and a librarian in a private provider of higher education.

#bla26 final day - final Key Presentation loading!

Another stimulating day at #BLA26. Members enjoying a little time to explore Brighton. Before some of us are going up in i360 for pre-dinner drinks (others staying on ground floor). Followed by gala dinner sponsored by our Gold sponsor EBSCO.

@alicecann.bsky.social , a long time BLA supporter is delivering our final Members Paper! Her knowledge on systematic searching, databases (such as EBSCO) is truly admirable and it is such a pleasure to watch her share things she is genuinly passionate about! #bla26

The wonderful Hannah Porter presented our 5th Members Paper - an honest exploration on how to make teaching more interactive. This is something a lot of teaching librarians tackle, so her presentation is timely and quite inspiring! #bla26

Race across the library up next at #BLA26. Using a map and passport with timed activities (getting to various checkpoints). Becky Whyley-Smith from the University of Huddersfield.

A very special presentation by FT - our Silver sponsor! A bit of inside view of how FT prepares their publications, their guiding principles and hard work in contributing to a healthy research environment. #bla26

Final Silver Presentation from FT Professional. Hearing from one of their journalists on linking their content across ages. Highlighting rankings, their free acres to schools and research across academia. Have a look at the Business news insider. Focus on how embed FT content into teaching. #BLA26

@britishlibrary.bsky.social is a wonderful institution and we are honoured to have Mary Hickford speaking at the #bla26 conference! Information clinics sounds like a great innitiative and we hope our business students will take adventage of them!

Our members, hard at work completing the Sponsors Bingo in between talks! #bla26

Statista - our Silver Sponsor - doing a little presentation! Statista is incredibly popular, being often a visual resource that students like to use. They have established itself as a reliable and diverse source for reseaech. #bla26

Starting of day 2 of #bla26 with 2nd keynote by by Lee Dickerson and Phil Braben from Coventry University. Talking about one of their partnerships with Sylla.

Inspiring first day #BLA26. Now for a little break before the drinks reception (kindly sponsored by our Silver sponsors FT Professional, @clarivateag.bsky.social and Statista. Followed by dinner and the Quiz.

Silver sponsor presentation - Clarivate. "Your students shouldn't be mini librarians." Clarivate positions itself as a good alternative to "easy sources", like Google, by providing structured search results. #bla26

Winner of best title surely? Moving onto 2nd member paper. #BLA26 Would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling librarians: Unmasking AI ghost and phantom references, Fred Milton – Teeside University

Explaining barriers to completion of the BMC. #bla26 I recognise many of these.

After tea (and cake ) with great catch up with several attendees at #bla26 now hearing from Léa Anderton – University of Manchester. Our first members paper - ‘From Optional to Unmissable: A Future-Facing Blueprint for embedding Bloomberg BMC’.

Our golden sponsor EBSCO presentation. EBSCO consults librarians, work on avoiding AI hallucinations, improve their Business Searching Interface (make it more visual). We are very proud to be supported by EBSCO! #bla26

Slight order change for Members' Papers, but fabulously delivered nevertheless - Léa Anderton, University of Manchester, told us about Bloomberg Market Concepts certification! #bla26

Each year the programme is reevaluated with librarians, real collaborations. #BLA26

After each workshop student feedback is collated (qualitative and quantitative) #BLA26

Focusing on three key workshops for students (academics with librarians). #BLA26

Top-up studnets are people who have a prior qualification. Often lots of credits in their home country. Come to UK university for one year (…only 9 months) to complete bachelors degree #bla26 Come with strong subject knowledge, high achieving students. Challenges with UK HE academic expectations

The first keynote is by Chathushka Kiriella, Senior Lecturer and programme lead at UWE Bristol. Highlight work done recently on ‘Embedding Library Expertise in Transnational Education: A Collaborative Approach to Supporting International TopUp Students. #BLA26

Great start to #BLA26 opening address by Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Rusi Jaspal. Librarians play critical and valuable part in education and research. Very much a strategic partner.

Beautiful sunrise. See you soon at the University of Brighton for #BLA26 @blalib.org

UNESCO launches open-source platform to advance global open science www.researchinformation.info/news/unesco-... Platform is released as free and open-source software and is built on open technologies @unesco.bsky.social

Final prep by @blalib.org for #BLA26. Looking forward to hear our keynotes, member papers and sponsors. Theme of ‘Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution’ so very timely. Safe travels everyone and see you in Brighton. #BusinessLibrarians #SummerConference

Open scholarly infrastructures need *principles* in order to be worthy of trust. So here is Knowledge Commons's 2026 audit according to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure 2.0. With an opening short essay by me. about.hcommons.org/2026/06/17/k... openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

🗣️"When a number becomes a narrative, verification matters more—not less" #AcademicSky

Always enjoy a good bookshop recommendation www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...

I have finally finished and posted the list of alternatives to Google Scholar, along with various thoughts about ethics and librarianship and why I'm not technically a librarian any more librarykirsten.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/t...

Hurrah - all attendees for #UKSG2026 can now access the presentations from the conference! Please check your email inbox for details on how. For non-delegates there is a small fee - details here: dub.sh/B0IfXuv Our thanks to our friends at Underline for their support

Do you work in Copyright in libraries? Got lots of experience or need more help? We are launching a Copyright Mentoring Scheme next week at the @altcoolsig.bsky.social webinar on 12 June at 11am BST: copyrightliteracy.org/2026/06/03/w...

📢 Vanessa Proudman & @paolacorti.bsky.social will open this year’s Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week with a keynote on ‘how can we bridge the Opens?’ 🗓 Tue 19 May | 10:45 CEST 👉 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenEducation #ConnectingTheOpens

Dig into our digital archives and discover the potential of collections metadata as a resource for your research at our open day on Friday 29 May. You’ll also learn about our digitisation work and approach to AI in research. Book your place: link.bl.uk/doddcr

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians