Business, Computing and Partnerships Librarian in HE
Information seeker, puzzler, dog owner. Business librarian in HE. Just stepped down as Chair of CILIP YH. I drink too much tea. She/her.
Co-host of the DigEd Discuss podcast | Founding member of the 'Fun and Games in Learning and Teaching' community of practice | Passionate Learning Designer | Innovative Problem Solver | Senior Fellow of the HEA | Chartered Teacher | Gaming Enthusiast
Chair of CILIP Cymru Wales (CCW). Former Chair, UK CILIP ILIG 2019-2021. My third professional family is the BLA. Chat with me about Wales, libraries, retro gaming, films, and business.
A HE librarian based in a University in the NE of England. Interested in AI, digital upskilling and understanding student needs. All views are my own. Transitioning from X.
Trainer and consultant: UX (user experience), failure and uncertainty, Lego Serious Play, libraries: https://andypriestnertraining.com/
Chair of UX in Libraries: https://uxlib.org/uxlibs2025/
My podcasting alter ego: @andypodding.bsky.social
Quantitative ecology (especially seeds, and all who eat them), game-based/playful learning, ducks, cats, flowers, fantasy fiction and storytelling. Views my own.
single dad. academic. manchester. live music, videogames and overthinking. FOT. he/him.
Rebel with a cause to transform education through heutagogy. Playful, creative, collaborative learning & education research are my thing. Reader @UCLan School of Nursing & Midwifery, NTF, CATE, Playful Learning Association Committee Impact Lead
Lecturer in Nutrition| RNutr๐| The Education Burrito Podcast Host๐๏ธ| Student Engagement & pedagogy stuff on the side๐ฃ |Own Views ๐| IG: @kiu_sum_
Associate Professor in Ed Develop. SFHEA. Online learning, info, digital & copyright literacy. Deputy Chair of CILIP Info Lit Group. Head of MA Academic Practice ๐ฑ
Durham University Senior Learning Designer. Co-host of Pedagodzilla. DJ on The Thursday Night Show. Posts mainly about comics, cats and kaiju. Chaotic neutral apparently.
Professor of Digital Learning and Play at Northumbria University. Likes video games, cryptic crosswords, and otters. All views my own. She/her.
Run workshops on Neurodiversity, play(fullness), creative teaching and more. National Teaching Fellow. Journal of Play in Adulthood Editor.
Neurodivergent. https://playbrarian.uk
Tech, Learning & Games
Head of Educational Enhancement
CoChair Playful Learning Association
LGBT+ Ally ๐ณโ๐
she/her
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p541621-katie-piatt
Playful & Game-based learning specialist. Interdisciplinary researcher. Serious games for research skills and researcher development. SFHEA, CeLP, PhD.
Senior Learning Designer at DCAD and PhD student in Computer Science at Northumbria University. Researching: Digital escape rooms and education | #MSc | #SFHEA | #CMALT | #CATE | #NTF | #MIEE AVMO.
Open University professor emerita, making the shift over to podcasting, audio drama and fiction.
Experienced Digital Education professional in UK HE | ALT Trustee | PhD researcher at Lancaster University | Jisc Community Champion 2024 | ALT Community Choice Award 2024 | Patch the catโs hooman ๐ธ
Designer of objects & games, maker, lecturer, larper.
Reader at Warwick Law School | SFHEA | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Access | #TaskmasterEducation Co-founder | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot (157) ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
โSurprisingly socially functional for an academic"
Author of AI for Students (see https://promptlybooks.com) + academic advisor and learning developer at U of Stirling, UK
Chartered engineer (space systems are my jam); team, process and comms facilitator (Lego SeriousPlay is my other jam); chair of school governors (education is my other other jam). Tri-jammed. Erdรถs number is 5. Does not suffer fools gladly.
Associate Professor (Law), CUHK (Hong Kong); Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers (UK); Trustee, SLSA (international law, philosophy, culture, climate change & sea-level rise).
Book 1: https://tinyurl.com/bdfa86ve
Book 2: https://tinyurl.com/yc4nmrnm
Game-based learning, marketing & community-building
Educator, Author, Experience Designer
ARGs, LARPs, Escape Games
Convener of #GamesInEdu25 at #UKGamesExpo
CfP: https://bit.ly/UKGECFP
web: www.Linktr.ee/lizcable
Start here: https://bit.ly/GamesinEdu
Professor of Playful Learning, Head of Anglia Learning & Teaching, Archaeologist, and fan of dinosaurs, Lego, craft beer and live music
Educator and Educationalist - Interests: Professional identity, Digital Capabilities + Practice, Pedagogy, TEL, AI in Ed, Personal Learning/Knowledge Management. Games, Gaming, Game-based/Playful Learning, TTRPG, Storytelling, Motorbikes, good Whisk(e)y.
Phonetician @StrathSLT | Interested in creative teaching and learning and a bit of music | Senior Teaching Fellow #SFHEA | HASS Associate Dean UG - University of Strathclyde
Uni business librarian, Mum, Researcher. #SystematicReview, searching. Books & reading, esp. scifi (& on tv). Hashtag obsessive. Blogger: https://researcherlibrarian.wordpress.com #AliceWrites
Past focuses: left wing politics, aphantasia, gentle parenting
Project Manager: Workforce and Skills at Libraries Connected interested in #LISstaffDevelopment #Mentoring #LISresearch, #SystematicReviews, #NarrativeInquiry, #CreativeMethods
AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellow 2023-24
Lives in South Wales
Library systems, content, metadata, acquisition, team work, leadership. Choral music. Running.
#RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her.
Unapologetic Librarian. Mom to a human. Servant of 2 cats. Reader. DIYer. Overthinker. Collector of rubber ducks. MN, USA
Book lover, tea drinker, trainee Yorkshire lass. She/her. Librarian and PhD student. Interested in gardening, feminism (intersectional or gtfo, trans women are women), scifi, books and cats.
Former university administrator; happily married step-dad to three, and cat-servant to two. Also a โmiddle-class leftie remoaner lunatic" (wtt Dan Wootton). There are places to visit, books to read, guitars to play, and songs to sing.
Right then, this is the one. I'm all in.
Libraries, Higher Ed, communications, and life.
As a freelancer I run workshops on marketing, social media and presentation skills: https://www.ned-potter.com/training
Library person, bibliovore, retro gamer, goth, sporadic crafter
Research Intelligence Librarian, formerly NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. UCU rep. Scholarly communications, research metrics, equity, pedantry, cats. She/her.
Durham based mam of two small humans in a neurodiverse family. NHS Librarian. Reader, walker, cross stitcher, tea drinker. Perpetually tired but I try. She/Her. Views own etc.
Mostly tediously twee nonsense. Sporadic enthusing about flamenco dancing and cycling to see Cardiff Bay's sunrises. Occasional passing references to being a weary, aging academic librarian.
Chartered librarian. Interests include KM, gin, languages, reading especially Girls Own books, and road racing. Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London. She/Her
Librarian, Knowledge Manager, Data Protection Officer and Records Manager. Let me know if I can be of any further help.
Fair Library Jobs is a group of library workers aiming to improve recruitment & employment practices in libraries in the UK https://linktr.ee/fairlibraryjobs
Librarian, crafter, wokerati, she/her. Knitting & spinning & chatting & sewing & reading & generally carrying on. Business librarian in higher ed. Easily distracted. Owns small child and giant baby, posts indulgently on the subject. Tries to be an Ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Always-already librarianing. ๐๐น๐น
Library director at Goldsmiths, University of London; CILIP & SCONUL board member. Audax cyclist. (he/him)
Personal account: my own views. ๐โโ๏ธ
๐ฆฃ @preater@hcommons.social
NHS librarian in Sussex UK, also crossword compiler (Angel), poet, editor, toast in the machine. Weekly crossword streams on Twitch @ crypticsunday. I like crime fiction, telly and cold water. She/her.
Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
Clinical librarian, exploring new views and ideas to use in my work.
Librarian. Singer. Writer of pantomimes and murder mysteries. Crime fiction devotee. All views are my own.
Still growing stuff, running and generally interested. Probably library chat will happen.
The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Red head Welsh Librarian, Wife, Mum, Dog Mum. Likes wine, crochet & rugby.
Academic Librarian, SFHEA, #ebookSOS campaigner, WikimediaUK trustee, NLISN committee member. UK Wikimedian of the Year 2020, JISC Community Champion 2025.
Passionate about performance measurement and assessment in academic libraries.
Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting.
https://hcommons.org/members/lesleypitman/
Book lover. Tea drinker. Personal account.
Librarian for Maths, Physics and Computing at Imperial Library.
Librarian in HE | Union rep | Maker | Potterer
Out in East Lothian usually
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol at British Library. EB Secretary โช@adho-org. Access + UX for digital heritage, AI/machine learning and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage / GLAM / digital humanities. She, they. More at https://www.miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
Leopard print is a neutral. Book drunk freak / Punk Ass Book Jockey/ #MedLibs. Collector of social media accounts apparently. She/her
Engagement Librarian at the University of Southampton, lover of cats, cake, coffee, knitting & Board Meeting Bingo, embarrassing parent. Please block me if you are a transphobe. Views: my own. She/her
Head of Research Liaison, UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. Librarian. PhD Student in DIS at UCL. Neurodivergent. Photographer. Anthropologist. Bullet Journal Enthusiast. Baker. Nerd. www.kirstywallis.com
Open Access Adviser - theul.bsky.social
MA in Library and Information Service Management - University of Sheffield
Chartered Member of CILIP
Chair of cilipeast.bsky.social & CILIP 125 Recipient
Social Media Editor for camlibgroup.bsky.social
Manchester Metadata Maven
UK Librarian #OpenAccess & #OpenInfras supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
Opinions my own.
https://linktr.ee/emmabooth
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
Academic librarian with interests in information literacy, library marketing and the impact of AI on the research process!
Special collections / heritage / libraries / archives, education, Wikimedia, art, UCL, GirlGuiding, neurodiversity, geekery. ๐๐๐ฆโจ
https://linktr.ee/octavosaurus
Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Hebrew & Jewish Studies librarian at University College London. Co-convenor, Hebraica Libraries Group. Posts are my own views etc She/her
Archives, records, and data protection. Derbyshire lass in exile, Beaver (Scout) leader, Friend, and proud Mummy.
Copyright librarian. Expect much fangirling about books, theatre and Shakespeare here.
Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at UCL.
PhD student researching social class in the academic library workforce.
Co-organiser of Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) and member of Fair Library Jobs.
Information manager, Long Covid, dementia care, choral singing. An atheist of Jewish extraction who really likes Anglican churchgoing. She/ Her.
"I don't know if this is a race thing or a lady thing but I'm mad as hell" Libraries, vampires and Sherlock Holmes. Very good bad influence. She/Her.
We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries, along with companies and people who supply them with technology and services. We bring these different organisations together to share experiences and work together on shared challenges.
Me?
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
University of York Acquisitions Librarian. Professional Northerner. Bang on about armchair politics, books, ebooks, coffee, & Boro. Views/opinions personal. UTB
Associate Director at the Open University Library interested in relationship management, strategic planning, and supporting distance and online learners in HE libraries. She/her
Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
Banner: Photo of NLISN committe at UKSG Conference by
@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Publishing Technologies Librarian.
Open Access, Publishing, Diversity, IT, Libraries & (Digital) Collections.
Tech & Hiking | She/Her | Views (unfortunately) my own.
I'm a librarian. I also do a lot of crochet and cross stitch. I do a fair bit of stuff but it's mostly around #infolit #critlit etc. Managing Editor for JIL.
Lead learning facilitator (head librarian) for a large UK college. Qualified + chartered librarian, also a freelance independent reading/library consultant. She/her. Pan. www.clairewarrenconsulting.co.uk
Library worker! Trade unionist! Pro-independence! Ace! Mostly to be found reading, riding buses, or at the cinema. Will post about books I've read, food, and Scottish politics. (he/him)
She/her. Librarian. Senior library manager. FHEA. Often staff to cats. Lover of tech, gaming, mythology, old places, rock & trashy literature! LGBTQIA+ ally. Mental Health First Aider.
Curious, keen follower of current events worldwide, teenager at heart if not in body. Multicultural, multinational & multilingual
Recreating community of diverse thinkers and doers. Parish councillor trying her best
She/ her
"Knowledge is justice, and all should be welcome in the temples of taxonomies". Fellow of CILIP, FRSA.
Bridges, baseball, cheese.
That's me.
Librarian and student services manager.
Level 29
๐น Dreaming about books, food, and travel
โ๏ธ Law librarian
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally in all forms
๐ hailing frequencies open
๐ President '24 SLA Europe
Collector of hobbies: cross-stitch and lover of video games
An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
NHS Library Assistant, a musician (when the chance arises), former lots of things including Primary School Teacher, School Librarian, Retail Manager, โฅ๏ธ live music, โฅ๏ธ Sci-Fi & Fantasy. Yes, Iโve worn many hats. Currently focusing on marketing and outreach.