Last call for proposals for the Metadata & Discovery Group 2023 Conference #metadata #cataloguing #ethics #LinkedData #DiscoverySystems #DataManagement #digitisation #repositories

This film is amazing!!!!!

3 May 2015 #ShekuBayoh met his death after being restrained by up to 6 Police Scotland officers in Kirkcaldy. His devastated family still search for answers & claim he is 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿’s George Floyd- “Sheku Bayoh: The Inquiry” is podcast by The Ferret 🎙️👉theferret.scot/audio-and-podc…

As a kid, Oprah Winfrey was my biggest star in the world. Then Oprah lost her mind when Tina Turner surprised her for her 50th Birthday Show — that's when I learned who the biggest star in the world was to the biggest star in my world. RIP to the World's Biggest Star

Fought through missed and cancelled trains to make it to Academic Libraries North Thriving in your career event. Josh Sendall with the welcome to #TIYC23

I did the bins

As yet unnamed #EmeraldRhino adopted today. Emerald Publishing will donate £2 to Save the Rhino International for each post.

In response to IFLA:s shocking announcement that the 2024 congress will take place in Dubai, DIK has released the following statement: dik.se/om-oss/nyheter… #library #humanrights #freedomofspeech #lgbtqi

Again, how dare you use hypothetical brown people to justify your decision! Don’t pretend like you give a fuck about librarians and library workers of color. We refuse to be exploited so you can take your 30 pieces of silver and be praised for it.

This is just one of the great panels you can watch back online. Online pass is a bargain at £5 and in person events happening til Thursday fringeofcolour.co.uk so much JOY

Online this Thursday // Readers of Colour is a thriving community of Women* and Nonbinary Readers of Colour who come together to read writing by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Colour. The sessions are run by Lil Green Find out more: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/2023-06-…

- Please donate to hold the British Museum accountable for the erasure of Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin - I want to talk about the importance of poetry in a Chinese cultural context and why this makes the removal of Qiu Jin's poetry especially problematic. Please boost! (1/?)

Near tears throughout the Edinburgh International Book Festival event with Malorie Blackman and @nadineaishaj such inspiration from both of them “thank … for public libraries” #LoveLibraries #LoveYourLibraries #LoveReading

This is difficult to watch but hugely powerful. Would encourage watching back online Edinburgh International Book Festival #HowManyMoreWomen

A wonderfully joyful and inspiring poetry reading and event launching lemn sissay OBE FRSL #LetTheLightPourIn with Jackie Kay The Portobello Bookshop Canongate (has left)

Journalists need to stop asking Starmer about his fucking football tickets and ask him why he’s backing Israelis throwing Palestinians off rooftops, blowing up pregnant women whose foetuses are dug out of rubble, and maiming children every single fucking day while we all watch.