This photo is already English football history. Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu, 29 years old, making his Premier League debut with Luton. He is the first footballer in history who, with the same team, rose from the fifth to the English first division. There were a total of 4 promotions

“Not bad” - Fine “Not too bad” - Pretty good “Not too bad at all” - Best thing ever

The British Museum situation is symptomatic of what happens when you only fund short-term projects and additionality. If you want the nations heritage kept safe & recorded in perpetuity, you have to fund long-term cultural infrastructure & jobs. No short cuts.

Jürgen Klopp said he had never experienced anything like our ‘super-special’ 2-1 win over Newcastle United at St James’ Park 👇

Sharing the 1st part of a SWOT analysis of academic libraries. The abstract and tables will cut to the chase if you are in a hurry! Massive thanks to leoappleton for his support as editor of NRAL and also to a phenomenally helpful peer reviewer doi.org/10.1080/136145…

A disappointing result but a battling performance full of grit and determination. Thank you for your brilliant support. Back at it next week, together ✊🔴

I can't believe that it's nearly 7 years ago since I kicked a football on stage at the UKSG Forum at Senate House in London (this actually happened) They've shared a video to promote this year's Forum and look who's on it leoappleton uksg.org/events/forum

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when alighting from a train in Sheffield, the correct thing to do is to sample a pint of Thornbridge Brewery Jaipur at Sheffield Tap. In town to see Steel City Beer Festival and work on a new edition of the Sheffield Beer City Report with Hop Hideout ®!

We're pleased to announce that Jo Cornish, our Chief Development Officer at CILIP, will step into the position of interim CEO on 1 February, working alongside our out-going CEO, Nicholas Poole OBE Hon. FCLIP, who leaves at the end of March. Read more: cilip.org.uk/news/662452/Jo…

New CCQ article: "Identifying Best Practice in Recording Copy-Specific Elements in Special Collections Cataloging" by Alex Kither Alex Kither & Leo Appleton leoappleton tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #SpecialCollections #cataloging

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

At the 2nd day of the #LILAC24 conference on the Information School stand with leoappleton and Jodie Reeve

#LILAC24: Developing metaliteracy skills with art and design students: findings from an action research project:  Laura Wood from Leeds Arts University and my @infoschoolsheff colleague Leo Appleton presented about an action research project… dlvr.it/T4dsVY #infolit

At QQML International Conference in Crete and meeting up with Information School alumni Robinah (Kyambogu University, Uganda) and Naifa (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman). Wherever you are in the world, the Information School is with you (although all the more likely at a LIS type conference)

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I’ve said “isn’t it lovely” about the weather about 25 times today. I’ve also said “everywhere’s so nice and green after all the rain we’ve had” about 8 times. I’ve done 4x “I could get used to this” and an equal amount of “this is the life”, and 2x “I hope it lasts”. I look

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Really pleased to say my book, ‘Achieving global open access: The need for scientific, epistemic and participatory openness’, has now been published #openaccess online. Print copies will be available from 9 July. doi.org/10.4324/978103… ...

💚 Your four new Green MPs, ready to get to work.