Yesterday I was please to represent RLUK at a round-table event hosted by the Bodleian between the recently formed Libraries Alliance and Libraries Minister Baroness Twycross where we discussed cross-sector cooperation.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/ministe...
Great role advertised at Oxford: Research Metrics and Open Infrastructure Lead
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Fantastic to meet our new AHRC @rluk.ac.uk Research Catalyst Cohort colleagues at our RCC3 launch yesterday & delighted to be partnering with @armauk.bsky.social Lots of learning, networking & engagement in the room. Wishing you all every success on your research journey and we are here for you
Ready and waiting for our third AHRC @rluk.ac.uk Research Catalyst cohort here in Senate House for today’s launch in partnership with @armauk.bsky.social #librariesXresearch find out more at www.rluk.ac.uk/rluk-ahrc-re...
Are you interested in digital collections, policy management,, outreach & training? Then you could be our next Digital Preservation Officer!
Digital Preservation Officer (Maternity Cover). Closes 26 Sept 12:00.
Apply: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs.
We’re delighted to announce the third #RLUK #AHRC @armauk.bsky.social Research Catalyst Cohort #REPRCC for academic libraries.
Over the next year they will develop their research confidence, skills & capabilities
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🎉 Congratulations #librariesXresearch cohort! 👇
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We're coming to Aberdeen! 🥳
Our OUTWITH programme kicks off this Saturday by bringing our earliest publication of Scottish secular music to Aberdeen Art Gallery (whose Cowdray Hall concert venue is also having a big birthday this year).
Kathleen Shearer shares the results of a @coar-repositories.bsky.social survey designed to better understand the effects of the growing number of 🤖 AI bots and crawlers, which can disrupt repositories and other scholarly communications infrastructures: youtu.be/oXjSwofZF-A
Abstract submission closes next week! #LAG2026
The seminar will dive into topics from emerging trends to challenges & innovative ideas in library architecture. We seek Standard Presentation or a Lightning Talks on new library projects in Europe.
👉 Topics & submission guidelines: ow.ly/L9jB50WTclG
Neo-gothic corridor in the John Rylands Library
Main reading room of the John Rylands Library - a cathedral to knowledge in the Victorian neo-gothic style
Always a treat to visit Manchester University’s John Rylands Library. Today for a meeting of the RLUK Collections Strategy Network
Ambridge must have a really strict library service with the amount of fretting Adam was doing over a missing library book (although missing and lost library books are no laughing matter…) in the #thearchers tonight
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🟢 #RLUKDSF | Thinking Fast & Slow about #AI | 🗓 8 Oct
Join us in Oct to hear Paul Gooding (Glasgow) discuss principles for determining ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ approaches to #AI implementation to help libraries better respond to the challenges of implementing new technologies
🎟️ Sign up bit.ly/RLUKDSF
Read our new blog post outlining COAR's proposed new approach to multilingual discoverability across the global repository network: "Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... Very exciting!!!!
Excellent piece by Mark Lawson in today’s @theguardian.com reviewing ‘Now Whitehouse’, the new play by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social on Mary Whitehouse. Caroline used the Mary Whitehouse archive @bodleian.ox.ac.uk as part of her research for the play. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
The dates are set for the next LIBER Annual Conference: 1-3 July 2026!
Themed 'The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World', #LIBER2026 is where the European research library community comes together to share knowledge & drive libraries forward.
More details will follow 🌟 liberconference.eu
Registered for OAI14, online in November this year from 10-14 November with 5 sessions dedicated to Open Science in a Changing World. Register at oai.events/oai14/
A professional portrait of Masud Khokhar, wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and teal tie, smiling at the camera. To the left is a block of text where he expresses his honour in joining the inaugural Global Innovation Circle on Higher Education 2025 in Hannover this October. He highlights the importance of trusted, inclusive partnerships for a fairer knowledge future and the role of shared values, collaborative leadership, and innovation. Logos for GICHE and the Knowledge Equity Network appear at the bottom.
We’re excited that @masudk.com will represent #KEN at the inaugural Global Innovation Circle on Higher Education (GICHE) this October in Hannover - shaping conversations on inclusive, resilient, and innovative futures for higher Education. #GICHE #CollaborativeLeadership #FutureGenerations
🔵 #RLUK26 #CFP | Stewardship in challenging times:
the role of libraries in supporting civic society
📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all.
🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf
In a new #RLUK blog post, @davidprosser.bsky.social looks at how we can anticipate future challenges for research libraries & how this may shape the development of RLUK’s next strategy.
A man pushes a buggy in a library; he is seen through the perspective of a blue circular object.
We are seeking expert support to develop a new strategic plan that will guide us and the public #Library sector through a period of significant change.
The closing date for applications for tender is 8 September.
Find out more:
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
The 14th OAI Workshop will take place online 10-14 November 2025, with the theme of Open Science in a changing world.
Registration is free and open to anyone across the globe. - oai.events/oai14/.
Information about COAR Notify for EPrints
Great to see that @coar-repositories.bsky.social Notify functionality is now available to ePrints users, find out more at coar-notify.net/catalogue/im...
And #DHOx2025 goes out on a high! 🎉 Big thanks to our participants, speakers, convenors & events team for making this Summer School a success, we loved it and hope you did too! ❤️🙌 Until next time!
#digitalhumanities
Delighted to have you and colleagues join us from Leeds today, and love that you ran it as a mini-strand with our AI Libraries strand. Wishing you all every success and thanks so much for leading such an engaged and rich session - and to your colleagues.
It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our #DHOxSS2025 @rluk.ac.uk #AILibraries strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.
Happy Birthday NLS 🎂, here’s to the next 100 years and beyond as a champion of curiosity, discovery and connection #NLS100
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📣 We're hiring: Head of Service Delivery
The #HeadofServiceDelivery holds strategic responsibility for the service delivery function for #researchers at the @nlireland.bsky.social.
⭐ More info + #apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📅 Apply by: 3pm, 19 September 2025
#jobfairy #libraryjobs
Mission Control for the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from @masudk.com
Thanks for joining us @masudk.com a fantastic keynote and launch for the AI in Research strand, looking forward to the rest of the week and more discussions and engagement #DHOxSS2025
Radcliffe Camera
Sheldonian Theatre
Bodleian Tower of the Five Orders
Entrance to the Divinity School
A great walking tour with #DHOxSS2025 colleagues earlier this evening with blue skies and for librarians, a very library focused tour taking in various Bodleian library buildings including the Weston, Radcliffe Camera, Duke Humfrey’s library and the Tower of the Five Orders
