I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.
Seconded. Amazing book
Argh really miss the fika stall! Glad you’re feeling better though
Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.
Currently advertising two fixed term parental leave posts: Special Collections Librarian (13 months; £43,622-£49,097 - closes 9 March) and Special Collections Assistant (6 months; £30,508-£33,096 - closes 7 April). It's a great chance to work with a brilliant collection jobs.joh.cam.ac.uk
A very fine choice
Something nasty on the bookshelf: my review of @tanyakirk.bsky.social's collection of stories about books and libraries for @blpublishing.bsky.social, ‘The Haunted Library’ drfrancisyoung.com/2026/03/04/s... 📚👻
What a lovely thoughtful review - thanks so much, Francis
Sofa in front of entrance door?
Just to give a sense of how badly the salaries at the BL have degraded - this post paid £39k in 2010, which the Bank of England inflation calculator says is the equivalent of £61k today
Job Opportunity! We're looking for a Graduate Trainee Librarian
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Job Opportunity! We're looking for a Graduate Trainee Archivist.
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Oh! Sigh. I was excited for a minute!
Wait how are you watching it?! It’s not on anywhere yet is it?
Very good reporting on the situation at the British Library by Claudia Cockerell in The Evening Standard. Appreciate the time and care taken to investigate and explain it all. I believe Library workers on the ground are prompting much-needed culture change there.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
@dimitrafimi.bsky.social will know I’m sure!
Yay! Excited for this episode @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
I loved it too, so good
It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.
Leave Hamilton out of this! (I know which one you really mean)
Omg. This is wild
Paging @unamccormack.bsky.social !
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
A headline that reads “Demonic wind in the willows jumper banned from westminster abbey
This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves, against a green background.
Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
The haunted library book plus art cards, bookmark and info card
Book mail: November Tales of the Weird from @blpublishing.bsky.social
The Haunted Library edited by @tanyakirk.bsky.social
This is not a new version of the original Haunted Library book they published (see post 2), but there are some crossover stories
#weird #horror #library #books
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I too have watched this a… certain number of times
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
