One has got to love this! A short, but terrific (!) clip from Christopher de Hamel “Inside the mystery of medieval manuscripts” Who? When? Where? How? Why?… BBC Newsnight @bbc BBC Arts BBCArtsPR Bodleian Libraries Oxford Bibliographical Society Medieval Manuscripts #twitterstorians Oxford Medieval Studies @StephenSmithBBC

After so many years of contact, the text from a 10th-century manuscript leaf eventually transferred onto its wooden binding. 🪵 [Book of Timothy fragment, ca. 900-999. VAULT oversize Case MS Fragment 16]

A colourful view of University of Glasgow from Kelvingrove this afternoon

This raises interesting archival questions relating to: a) the permanence of tweets as records; b) whether the number of followers would be important for a future user of a tweet/Twitter profile.

As I've yet to see a single professional librarian or archivist speak in favour of this plan, it'd be good to know why this Ministry of Justice video is just an employee of the digitisation company Iron Mountain Data Centers making the very contentious claim that digitisation "preserve[s] forever".