In this new blog series, Dr Catherine Eagleton and Catriona Cannon will be bringing together a number of inspiring and thought-provoking writers from across the higher education sector to set out their vision for the future of libraries.

Read the first blog here: bit.ly/3Xo1AyO

Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers

I am so proud of this brilliant project by our University Collections team - now in testing to share with the sector soon. It's interdisciplinarity at its best, that we hope will make a real difference. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

First day of #THEdigitalUK and beautiful sunshine and blue skies here for us @lancasteruni.bsky.social

The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans

There’s also this, which is interesting (although I have questions about it): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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“Don’t pray for fair weather, pray for courage”

Here are the three 44th IATUL Conference Co-Chairs standing in front of a big IATUL2024: Michelle from @waikatouniversity, Sue @universityofauckland and me from @aut_library @autuni #instatags

#iatulakl24 kicked off with a beautiful pōwhiri at Waipapa Marae. Our appreciation to the wonderful team who organised the pōwhiri to welcome over 200 international delegates from across the globe #VoicesOfAll #Libraries #HigheEd #GLAMR

Here are 3 conference co-chairs: Michelle, Sue and me ♥️

Standards

Discussion of metadata and standards at #TaNC conference gives me another excuse to post this link to a very apt XKCD on xkcd.com/927/

Continuing my inexplicable track record of somehow only visiting Manchester when it’s not raining and the skies are blue - today for the final conference of #TANC #TowardsANationalCollection

Or, more accurately, very cold (-7.8C at my house this morning) but also very dry…

Too cold in my bit of Scotland to snow!

I’m here! And we just chatted briefly…

Is there a “pick up the pieces” piece? Asking for the Average White Band…

#redshed

Cambridge looking frostily beautiful this morning