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Finally got some of these ..

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Tha Seachdain na Gàidhlig 2025 @sngaidhlig.bsky.social a' tòiseachadh an-diugh & Lèirmheas Leabhraichean Ghlaschu @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social a' foillseachadh ‘A’ Sireadh nan Lepcha’ le Abrona Aden, ann an eadar-theangachadh gu Gàidhlig le Kevin MacNeil. Ri fhaighinn air tinyurl.com/3x2c5xm7.

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Delighted to learn that 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France & National Identity' is being released, much sooner than expected, in paperback in April 2025! Making it much more affordable. It is available for pre-order with discount code attached! @edinburghup.bsky.social

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Tomorrow (Monday 24 February) at 12-1: an online talk about Ruaraidh Erskine's Scottish magazines and digital resources created as part of @erskineproject.bsky.social for the Stirling Magazines and Periodicals Research Group (SMPRG). All welcome! MS Teams link: tinyurl.com/26274xy8

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I’m late to it but this @danigaravelli.bsky.social piece on prison suicides in Scotland is truly an eye-opener. Absolutely extraordinary that state-run prisons in the UK have Crown immunity.

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"Another supplier moving into nebulous negotiation territory, rather than transparent title by title pricing, has been met with frustration and disappointment across the sector" Helpful overview of the Clarivate situation from Kevin O’Donovan. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Television Newspaper, giant robots and Arthur Conan Doyle: read about 'Scoops', Britain's first science fiction magazine, in the latest National Library blog post by my splendid colleague Ian Scott blog.nls.uk/giant-red-ro...

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The annual UK Archive Sector Survey closes in 3 weeks’ time! #UKarchives Why do we ask you to take part? Read our findings from the 2024 survey, and the interventions we’ve made since: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... Link to survey 👇 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

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Looking back, I'm really proud of this book. It was an extremely challenging experience to edit with a huge range of voices. We focused on colonial influences, epistemology, politics, archives, infrastructures, and communities. Available OA at The MIT Press. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253624...

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Call for IMMEDIATE action: LCSH is officially proposing changes from "Mexico, Gulf of" to "America, Gulf of" and "Denali" to "Mt. Mckinley": classweb.org/tentative-su... Send feedback to [email protected] by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes

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Translating Gaelic Poetry 24 Feb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free Niall O’Gallagher, Garry Mackenzie, & @taylor-strickland.bsky.social will discuss their methods & approaches to translating Gaelic poetry, & how it interacts with other languages www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

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Project ERSKINE at this year's conference of the Scottish Society for Art History, hosted by @natlibscot.bsky.social. More about the artists involved and content related to art, crafts, architecture & aesthetics: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/topics/art-a...

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Gaelic & Scots in the 20th & 21st Centuries 19 Feb, Scottish Parliament Free (booking essential) Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses literary & historical connections, inspirations, & the role of new users, in the preservation & revitalisation of Gaelic & Scots www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaelic-and...

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Great thread on reading, parenting, and choose your own adventure books.

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It's very tiring, and sleep is precious. Lights Out.

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#SaveRadioDrama Check out the current Drama on 3 website 👇 The BBC want to axe Drama on 3 Sign the petition chng.it/6y5fKLkmWp www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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This has left me fuming. The belittling tone! "Dame Judi Dench has been activated" Suggesting that only "thesps" care. How ignorant and misrepresentative. If you want a more informed take on the loss of Radio 3 drama, read the pieces in @thestage.bsky.social (including @eggsbened.bsky.social & mine)

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Heralded as the father of Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson also fostered a continuously subversive practice of teaching and networking as a way to build educational capacity for Black students emerging into the era of Jim Crow and the Great Migration. #BoTD www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlhc...

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I’ve just spent 30 mins trying searches for topics relevant to the course I’m planning teaching for. For a while it felt like I was wasting time, but I’ve gradually build up a good eg on the importance of synonyms, & it all feels worth it. Just one of the egs of what goes into librarian teaching.

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If you manage(d) the Twitter account of a library, archive, or cultural institution I think you have the responsibility to ensure the long-term preservation of that corpus of information.

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The Cardiff University VC attempting to justify the cuts by describing them as "co-created with our community" is both spectacular cynicism and a great example of why both terms ("co-creation" and "community") need to be treated with much scepticism, especially when employed by large organisations.

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Angie Wang, "Chopstick Sleeves as Emissaries of Japanese Typography and Culture" (@letterformarchive.org; #skystorians #design): letterformarchive.org/news/this-ju...

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Join @clairemcgann.bsky.social and @tmorley24.bsky.social for the latest episode of Lancaster University Library's 'Talking around the library tree' podcast 🎙️ They discuss Lancaster's involvement in the Open Book Futures and celebrate what the project has achieved 🎉 🔗

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The sample dentures on display are what most appeal to me.

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UMSI’s Civic Librarian Project empowers librarians to create civic technology 📚 www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/n...

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Archivist - limited term position - for community project funded by Mellon. Focused on historically Black community of Eatonville, FL. preserveeatonville.org/jobs/

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Haven't had a chance to check this out fully yet but it looks like a very useful resource and a great service to the field.

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Delighted to see my piece on the axing of BBC Radio 3 drama gets a mention on the front page of this week's @thestage.bsky.social It's also among the editor's picks of the week. Do catch up with the link below 🔗👇

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Are you a community archive or group with a digital collection? Then submit a poster or digital submission for the upcoming Community Archives and Heritage Group (@cahgscotland.bsky.social) event. Find out more here:

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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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The Scottish Gaelic translation of Still Wakes the Deep is deeply political

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I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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A library could pay for their own green server to run library software and experiment with new tech for over 8 years for the cost of one non-member ticket to this conference.

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Ruaraidh Erskine was born #OTD 15 January 1869 in Brighton. Project ERSKINE website now offers the opportunity to explore in detail the extensive and diverse corpus of writing Erskine supplied for his own magazines, including a significant body of translations. erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/people/ruara...

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“Erskine (1869–1960) may come across as one of the eccentric, larger-than-life personalities involved in the whirlwind of political initiatives & small magazines […] However, his magazines played a vital role in the development of modern Gaelic fiction, drama, & journalism” saha.scot/six-reasons-...

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Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

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Starting off the year with a long newsletter post about the various names for open source software, punk DIY culture, enshittification, and anti-capitalist software practice. https://opensauce.simonxix.com/diy-open-software/

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Join us next Wednesday 22 January for the first C18 Studies at Stirling seminar of the new semester. Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams will present a paper titled ‘Collating with Purpose, or, the Joys of Descriptive Bibliography.’ 1-2pm; Teams link on request. All welcome!

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"This includes anonymised NHS data". Hugely worrying. AI will very likely see straight through the anonymisation because it can cross-reference with other datasets. I talk very openly about my disability and health. It helps others. That doesn't mean I want to share my full health records.

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today in link rot/what happens to your website when the funding runs out: 100 oral histories of people with diabetes were hosted on diabetes-stories dot com. Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social & winning awards from host Oxford Uni, yet the domain lapsed in 2020 & website vanished. #histSTm (1/2)

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"Because we know that AI has arrived as the ultimate force for change and national renewal." Absolutely lost the plot.

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8/365 : 25-01-08

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