Next week, join us for a dynamic day exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities 🩰
📆 Tuesday 28 April, 10am-4pm
📍 Durham
Book your free spot:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...
A book cover dated 1727 with one title side upside down
Saving paper back in 1727... This book works from either end! It made cataloguing tricky but it's now fully online with images to browse and download at:
thecommonroom.corals.photos/app/?keyword...
Walking dragline against a very blue sky
Sign board detailing the sunshine miners landmark memorial explaining the history of the walking dragline on the site
Unexpected mining heritage on a day out at St Aidan’s RSPB site! Beautiful sunshine and an electric Tramper chair to borrow - hurrah!
My challenge is transporting my crutches for the other end whilst riding a bicycle…. It has to be a good enough day that I can manage with folding walking sticks. Same issue with the e-scooters in our local scheme.
Have you ever been criticised in public for using a Blue Badge? I’m looking to gather disabled people’s experiences for The Guardian to explore hostility around the Blue Badge and Motability schemes.
We’ve made a quick form you can fill in here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... (Please share.)
My father in law saw pictures of the venue and was desperate to play it… I didn’t ask whether it was still functional!
Come see me talk about wellbeing collections in front of a... A massive organ apparently! What a space!
TOMORROW, 14 APRIL (11 CEST/10 BST): CLOSED LICENCES, CLOSED DOORS
@europepmc.org & KR21 explore how copyright and licences attached to your research can determine its real-world impact in an increasingly AI-driven research landscape.
SAVE YOUR SPOT: embl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Coffee and a Chat. Join other NAG members for a forum to discuss InterLibrary Loans and the CONARLs scheme. Why not grab a brew and join us on Zoom? Wed 22nd April 1030
Ever heard of the CONARLs scheme? It's a way of accessing cheaper interlibrary loans by both libraries agreeing to a fee of £6.00. Open to all libraries & free to join.
Come and chat to librarians who use it at our next NAG Members Coffee and Chat event on Wed 22nd April
nag.org.uk/event/chatap...
Eek, Seminar and forum feel very close! Time to get those bookings in people please…. It’s always a very unnerving time watching the numbers slowly ticking up! #nagcd16 #nagplf26
They have two Mountain Trikes - one lever push and one attendant powered which they let me have a play with. Great to try out some different wheels and fab if you’re only travelling with a pavement capable model!
Great day at Sudbury Hall
@nationaltrust.org.uk with the kids and thanks to them having loan wheelchairs available I can even still move this evening. Hurrah!
Some very cool off road models available if you ask too!
Interesting. I think I would find it very difficult myself to go between loud and quiet. My brain has adjusted to life at the amplified volume and accepts that level of background noise as normal now. It just never occurred to me to take them out after I got them other than sleeping!
There’s an adjustment period but now I can’t feel I’m wearing them unless I touch my ear. Love that I can Bluetooth stream my audiobooks from my phone too - no headphones required!
Main downside - not waterproof…. Tricky in heavy rain.
Picture of hearing aid
The “starter” /milder hearing loss NHS ones are pretty small - I’m sure they will have options for teeny ears!
I have one and I love it! Hearing aids have drastically improved my life.
We always welcome your feedback! 💫📚
Tell us what you think about World Book Day 2026 in our short survey.
www.worldbookday.com/news/world-book-day-2026...
Are you a new archivist or records manager working in the north of England? Do you want to meet other like-minded archivists or records managers to network and share ideas? Why not come along to our networking event at University of Liverpool: 6 May, 18:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ara-sfnp-t...
Very pleased to announce that BT Group Archives and UCL Department of Information Studies have a fully-funded PhD on offer.
It's a really exciting one: to investigate how new computational methods can be used to get the most out of a digitised audiovisual collection.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Between large book cases, a researcher is conducting research in the museum collection. Photo by Almicheal Fraay
Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection.
More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians
We have pointed this out to store staff on multiple occasions. I tried using Twitter to contact Sainsbury’s. Nothing. (I can’t use Facebook to contact them as they closed my account on me - don’t ask!)
A pudding shelved on ambient “cake” shelf in Sainsbury’s Etherstone avenue heaton
Close up of packaging reading keep refrigerated
I would really like to buy this Sainsbury’s gluten free choc pudding. But they keep shelving them in ambient in my Heaton store not the chiller despite the clear “keep refrigerated” labelling…..
Oh no! Fingers crossed for a seat for you….
Room under renovation with yellow weird paint and piles of ladders and scaffolding
The whole house was covered in this hideous yellow paint stuff up to the picture rail which had to be scrubbed off with scourers. My wife’s skin reacted horribly to something in it so that was mainly my job….
Image showing other side of room with wall demolition in progress
Dad taking the wall down was fun. And it reduced the wallpaper stripping considerably - which in that room was coming off in millimetres even with full on steamers….
Pre refurb kitchen with only oven as appliances
I do still have a “before” pic! Didn’t think that would still be on my phone. Can’t quite believe it was 2014…
We have a 1930s with what was originally a minuscule kitchen. You could barely open the oven door without hitting the opposite cabinet. Took that wall down, made open plan and gave it an extra foot. Fridge/freezers are in dining room area of the dual room in order to have washer and dishwasher.
People Powered: Human-centred innovation. 16th NAG Collection Development Seminar, Nottingham 20-21 May 2026 #NAGcd16 https://nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
Something for your pre-bank holiday to-do list this week:
Book NAG Seminar!
Get it ticked off to join us for two days of networking, discussions and papers in inspiring surroundings.
20-21 May, Nottingham
#NAGcd16
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Thank you both very much - my transcription volunteers are very pleased and also pass on their thanks for solving the mystery!
