This week is #LesbianVisibilityWeek, celebrating lesbian lives, loves & achievements.
We'd like to recommend these books - 'A queer scrapbook', 'Queer beyond London' & 'Eva Gore-Booth' - if you're looking to read more histories celebrating lesbian lives in the UK & Ireland.
#LVW26 #booksky
There’s such a lot of Milton in Good Omens.
Good coverage of #Quaker hatiquette in this #OpenAccess article by ... Prof. Capp doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Looks like Jesus is on the move again this Easter Monday #GoodOmens
Easter’s more like the end of the first coming. As for the date of the second coming? That would be a timey-wimey thing.
Eugen Stoica is my new hero.
I have a new librarian-activism hero! So clear and authoritative, properly strategic 👏
This! #RLUK26
Ha ha, who needs generative AI to make up facts when you can incentivise survey returns with money.
I wish it were that simple but it’s not. Librarians have pushed back consistently against content providers including AI functionality by default. They stuck it in anyway.
Wer singt da so schön?
Please don’t pin this on the library. This is ProQuest (along with every other content aggregator) foisting AI onto users whether they want it or not.
So happy!
But I bet this will really p1ss of the conservative rest of Bavaria 😆
Dying for more than a peek!
Today’s weather in Manchester is giving eschatology.
Sun, wind, rain, sleet, hail, snow, sun again.
And 🥶
Developing Inclusive collections information card, white RLUK logo and text against a yellow background.
RLUK is delighted to publish the Developing Inclusive Collections guide on reflective practice, providing a framework for colleagues at all career stages
This guide is useful to those working or aiming to work in collection-based decolonisation + build on existing knowledge+skills
bit.ly/INC-COLL
Reimagining Openness in Academic Libraries
#CFP now open for #ALN conference 2026
#skybrarians #academiclibraries #ALN26
This is utterly inspired!
I wanna do the Downhill Bookcart too #skybrarians #librarians #winterolympics #olympics
Stocktaking. In the basement.
Curious about the future of community‑led #openaccess book publishing? Join COPIM’s free hybrid #conference on 26–27 February. There are still some online tickets available!
@copim.bsky.social #scholarlypublishing #OAbooks
Has she watched Minority Report?!?
The number of times I read about what this government is doing and forget it’s no longer the Tories is scary.
[NEW REPORT] International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters
Read more on our website 👉 buff.ly/6Ab7hhf
@cilipmdg.bsky.social @uksg.bsky.social
@oipassoc.bsky.social @operaseu.bsky.social
Photo: Jon Snobri via Unsplash
Exhibition pop-up banner for Cosgrave Hall Archive
Head of Dangermouse
Costume for Toad of Toad Hall
Models of Andy Pandy and Looby Lou
Exciting launch of new #CosgraveHall #archive at Sale Library, Trafford yesterday. #Dangermouse #CountDuckula #Chorlton
Worth a visit if you’re in the area.
Vigil for Renee in London Monday
A veritable paean to the pouer of love
I’ve not been able to get this song out of my head these past few days 😪
Thogh no thinge
No thinge kan keepe us togethir
We kan beat them
Forevir and evir
& we koude be heroes
just for one daye
1947-2016
Reckon you got off lightly there 😜
‘No man, cos we don’t believe in that cis-gendered heteronormative sh!t propped up by the established church, thank you very much’
“In the meadow we can build a snowman / And pretend that he is Parson Brown / He’ll say ‘Are you married?’ / We’ll say …