Rachel J Kirkwood

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.

What next for community-led open access book publishing? Join Copim for a free two day hybrid conference!

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

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@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 …

Wot no mead?
That’s very disappointing. Hibernation does seem like a good option.

I did the alto-to-descant jump this evening 😂

But digital text can be revised and reordered 🤔

Böhme is my man.
I found specific linguistic evidence of his influence on Quaker metaphorical-theological language 😍

British Library staff are on strike from the 8th to the 12th December 2025. Full solidarity with them, please don't cross the physical or digital picket lines. I wrote a little in my latest piece on the Library about how poor senior management has driven the staff to this position.

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

Using a conceptual metaphor based on a container schema 🤶

Ouch.

This is too funny. (You don’t have to have seen the Sid James/Benjamin Britten meme, but it might help.)

Everybody has a right to make their own mind up, informed by a range of good information - that's power. It's also a fundamental issue for our profession. Yet is under attack. CILIP members & non-members can join this new #IntellectualFreedom Committee www.cilip.org.uk/news/713670/...

LOL - and then there’s Pécs — Pécsett😆

Great writing Hazel!
I know a very rude phrase in Hungarian that I’d like to send in Dr Maté’s direction for the upset he has caused in this household 😡

As god intended 😉

www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...

Yup. See also RTD’s Years and Years.