…and I have been spectacularly reminded how bloody fortunate I am.
#librarian #librarylife #scottishlibraries #libraries #aussieinscotland #westernisles #eileansiar
…this week I’ve been ferry hopping to check in with my staff in Uist and Barra…
Two years ago almost to the day I interviewed for a librarian job at the other end of the world…
Reminded how fortunate I am to have the job that I have and live where I live ❤️
Had an author engage multiple staff in 3 days of emails just so they could punchline that they would NOT visit our library service because they’d had to invite themselves*
*They were invited 15 months ago, strung us along for months then last minute told us they changed their minds
Fairy house, ferry and seals
That’s my library service ❤️
Well he seems like he’d be a good listener lol
Spring!
"These centuries-old connections between language and the environment challenge dominant views of how best to protect habitats. Scottish Gaelic’s vitality as a living language would surely suffer if fishing were to be curtailed, and much of the knowledge bound up in it...would be lost too."
Wickerman vibes
Oh no 😢
#Libraries believe in a people-centred Internet, as both a guarantee of rights and an enabler of development. Upholding the fundamental rights of access to information and knowledge is a starting point. Via @ifla.org
From nope to yes lol. Not bad for a dog who was born in Queensland and living in the subtropics until a month ago ❤️
#outerhebrides #scottishislands #snowday
What a rubbish week. I don’t understand people. Here’s a photo of a wallaby joey in my mum’s backyard to fix the universe.
This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No clue where I am but a’ chaora mhòr have been here before me 🐑
A’ dol dhachaigh / going home and what a day for it. For future reference there is time between bus & ferry for Cult coffee & Ullapool bookshop, bringing the holiday book count to 6 📚 #islandlife #hebrides #librarianlife #reader #booklover
Am bu chaomh leibh tachartas a chur air dòigh ann an 2025? Tha sgeama nan Tabhartasan Beaga a-nis fosgailte. Le taic o Bhòrd na Gàidhlig, gheibhear suas ri £500 gus tachartas a tha a’ comharrachadh na Gàidhlig a chur air dòigh.
seachdainnagaidhlig.scot/seachdain-na...
Want to host an event in 2026? Our Small Grants are open now. Supported by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, our grants offer up to £500—to help you put on an event that celebrates the Gaelic language. We have two information sessions coming up at 7pm on Wed 8 Oct & Thurs 23 Oct—book a session here: buff.ly/vYQ9PA1
In Munich airport and the random woman sitting beside me is a former Leòdhasach. Because of course. #islandlife
It’s impossible not to photograph even though it’s my 3rd visit and I was only there for the vitamin D and to see a friend 📷
Prague 🇨🇿
Taking a break from paint and plaster and statistical returns to squeeze the last few drops of August out of the year and remind myself that it wasn’t that long ago I was wishing and hoping for this life ❤️
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Calling all the UK public library workers! 📚 Seeking participants for UCL MA Library and Information Studies research project
#LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter
#LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research
Page 31 and already enraged. Why is English (which spreads like the plague) so threatened by other languages?
As an immigrant to this country, it is *already the case* that you cannot access public funds (incl. disability benefits) at any point up to gaining indefinite leave to remain.
For me, that was more than ten years of student & spouse visas, healthcare surcharges, a Life in the UK test, etc
Midnight & 9pm
