We are VERY excited to open the 📮call for papers📮 for #RBSCG26, which takes as its theme:
✨A Sense of Place: Collections and communities in context✨
and will explore the influence of place on collections and collections on places.
Our application form for the Ghost Bachelor on behalf of our ghost Moby (he can't fill out the form himself as he's incorporeal).
A Ghost Appreciation Society badge which we won from the mini grabber machine with our love tokens.
Romantic poetry made from Loveheart sweets. It says: Hello! I'm shy...marry me? Too much. Sorry.
Jill intently crafting an excellent picnic out of Play-Doh
Had a wonderful time with @jilld17.bsky.social and Pat, while the @ghostsociety.bsky.social hosted an evening of matchmaking for ghosts featuring Play-Doh picnics, Loveheart poetry, a dance mat, a love gun, a theremin, and a ghost wedding. Excellent company, excellent hosts. Would date again.
Booking is open for @cilip.bsky.social Library & Information History conference! It'll be at @natlibscot.bsky.social on 21 November! Featuring a genuinely stellar line-up, all in person. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-of... @cilipscotland.bsky.social @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social
Some timely lunchtime reading...
Shout out to my @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social colleagues for putting together a conference that looks fruitful, fun and is *practically free* rbscgconference2025.eventbrite.com
A pleasure to meet #SuperSheltie and his Super Librarians! #LoveLibraries
Three smiling women by a library van with a masked pony puppet.
You might have noticed #SuperSheltie has been keeping a low profile since Twitter went all Musky. Well our National Library was missing him so much they sent a crack team up yesterday to find him! 🙂😎🐎
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@natlibscot.bsky.social action will be coming before long - and more #SuperSheltie
8.31 out of Edinburgh seems to be the Librarian Express this morning. See you all at CILIPS! @cilipscotland.bsky.social
Zooming down to London for a very brief visit with colleagues to present at @rluk.ac.uk event celebrating the role of libraries in research!
Photo of a slide displayed during a talk. An extract reads "we might at least establish a respectable nucleus, with every prospect of important accessions, which instead of the meagre and heterogeneous assemblage which now lumber our shelves, of law, medicine, midwifery, and all sorts of rubbish."
Went to an excellttalk by the fabulous @jilld17.bsky.social and the @natlibscot.bsky.social this evening. Unfortunately all my photos of Jill were unflattering, but my colleague and I loved this quote: law books lumped in terms of regard alongside random rubbish on the library shelves 😂
Interested in big house libraries? My article about the library at the National Trust's Springhill is out now: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/lih.2025.0189 Many thanks to LIH's editors Nadine Kozak & @jilld17.bsky.social.
Spending a very nice lunchtime on the hunt for images for a talk next month. Will never get tired of the layers upon layers of life that can be witnessed within one book ❤️
Will *finally* be checking out the Time & Tide Museum with 9yo niece and am pretty excited about it. Bet they don't have Woody though
Off to the land of my birth for a few days. Accent already threatening to return...
Yeah! @liamsims.bsky.social sent me one of these just the other day. ❤️
Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
Next up it's @nedpotter.bsky.social on library social media in a post-Twitter world #edge25
Morning from the Edge 2025 conference!
Excited exciting...I'm not tired....no sirree...
Excited to be sharing some of the more exciting stories from my @rluk.bsky.social funded research at @natlibscot.bsky.social in celebration of their 100th birthday! www.nls.uk/whats-on/whe...
Are you an info/knowledge professional in Edinburgh area? Would you like to network and discuss professional topics with others?
Then book on the EKLIPs talk from @jilld17.bsky.social about the role of research in the profession on the 5th February below!
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New year, new job? If you're passionate about how library collections, spaces and services can support people in entrepreneurship broadly defined this could be the role for you!
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Woo!
Glorious morning with an old friend today
I might. I am forever angry that my access to free Le Creuset is limited by the success (or lack thereof) in my love life.
To be honest I had always planned to celebrate my 40th as though it's a wedding. No ceremony/white dress though, just the shindig. Do you reckon I'd get away with registering for gifts?
Writing retreat. Scotland sounds nice.
