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Digital Scholarship @ British Library
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Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/

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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is the largest library in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The library operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. .. more

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 1d
Online registration for Fantastic Futures 2025 is now open! Watch all the Thursday and Friday sessions for free: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/

#FF2025 #Ai4LAM

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 18h
Curious about AI4LAM? You can join the Slack or Google Group via ai4lam.org or check out the community call tonight at 4pm GMT

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 1d
From the British Library: Restoring our services – November 2025 update

https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/restoring-our-services-november-2025-update

Note the pause on ordering items if you're planning to use the reading rooms Dec 1 - 7!
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk

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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 1d
Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you!

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you!

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 6d
RE: https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol/115532805972798286

One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
Digital Scholarship at the BL (@[email protected])
Can anyone recommend printers near St Pancras / the British Library for people printing their #FF2025 posters?
techhub.social

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 6d
One last call out before we email people preparing posters for #FF2025 - any recommendations for fast, reliable printers near the @britishlibrary.bsky.social in St Pancras?
bldigischol.bsky.social Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14d
Can anyone recommend printers near St Pancras / the British Library for people printing their #FF2025 posters?

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 7d
RE: https://glammr.us/@universalviewer/115542994436445391

All are welcome! Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 to catch up with recent work and learn about what's next
Universal Viewer (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image We're looking forward to seeing you at UVCON next week! Join us for a half-day of presentations and conversation about the past, present and future of the Universal Viewer. Here's a peek at the schedule
glammr.us

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · 8d
I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. Fully booked onsite but available online: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-en...
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The Environmental Impact of Digital
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 8d
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library

https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14d
Huge thanks to all our @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues who've been working so hard on this for so long!
britishlibrary.bsky.social British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 14d
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.

To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.

Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
A person reaches for an item from a shelf of books.

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14d
Can anyone recommend printers near St Pancras / the British Library for people printing their #FF2025 posters?

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14d
#UniversalViewer #iiif #OpenSource [2/2]

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14d
Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: https://uvcon.io
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-viewer-uv-annual-conference-2025-tickets-1967619306312 [1/2]
UVCON
UVCON
uvcon.io

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 14d
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.

To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.

Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
A person reaches for an item from a shelf of books.

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 19d
If you're interested in AI for libraries, archives and museums, the AI4LAM community is a year-round source of insights https://ai4lam.org/ [2/2]
ai4lam
AI4LAM is an international, participatory community focused on advancing the use of artificial intelligence in, for and by libraries, archives and museums.
ai4lam.org

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 19d
New research on how public libraries and librarians in England tackle mis/dis-information - short survey, please complete & share app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/a... #IntellectualFreedom

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 25d
Curious? The code is here github.com/harrylloyd-b...

Thanks Harry Lloyd and @adi-keinan.bsky.social for your work on this! And all the curators, metadata folk and crowdsourcing volunteers who helped earlier versions of this work
GitHub - harrylloyd-bl/convert-a-card: Generating ingestible records from catalogue cards as part of the Convert-a-Card project
Generating ingestible records from catalogue cards as part of the Convert-a-Card project - harrylloyd-bl/convert-a-card
github.com

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 25d
https://web.archive.org/web/20250623215117/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-helping-cataloguers-derive-records-with-oclc-and-python.html [2/2]
Convert-a-Card: Helping Cataloguers Derive Records with OCLC APIs and Python
Last week Dr Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert delved into the invaluable work that she and others have done on the Convert-a-Card project since 2015. In this post, I’m going to pick up where she left off, and describe how we’ve been automating parts of the workflow.
web.archive.org

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 25d
Work at the British Library on pulling structured information from scanned card catalogues:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Oct 24
Curious about using 'public domain' British Library Flickr images? https://web.archive.org/web/20240525111448/https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/04/curious-about-using-public-domain-british-library-flickr-images.html

Can't find our images anymore? Try Advanced Search
A photo of the British Library's St Pancras building with the text: Where are all the British Library images? Can't find our images? They're now listed as type 'illustration/art" (not photos'), so you'll need to use Flickr's Advanced Search to find our images. There's an Advanced option on search results pages. Select that to choose 'Content' then select 'Illustration/Art'

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · Oct 24
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️

From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.

Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · Oct 24
New LIBER Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guide focused on Digital Sustainability!

Explore digital sustainability and learn how GLAMs can measure and reduce their digital footprint libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
Digital Sustainability – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides
libereurope.github.io