Gary Horrocks
@garyjhorrocks.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor, researcher, presenter, PR, librarian, information scientist. #JudyGarland aficionado, elucidating for the UK e-info Group, champion 4 library & learning resources in FE, benevolent tongue-in-cheek social media, friend of Dorothy 🌈
I feel a book review coming on 😊
October 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I feel a book review coming on 😊
So melancholy as today would have been my late, great friend Stephen’s 61st birthday. Sadly he joined the choir in August 2018 😞 My birthday follows in 2 weeks and I always rang him on the 9th to rub it in that I was, for a short while, 2 weeks younger 👏 Bless him💓
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
So melancholy as today would have been my late, great friend Stephen’s 61st birthday. Sadly he joined the choir in August 2018 😞 My birthday follows in 2 weeks and I always rang him on the 9th to rub it in that I was, for a short while, 2 weeks younger 👏 Bless him💓
I’m sure this would make a brilliant Pet Shop Boys album title 👏
August 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I’m sure this would make a brilliant Pet Shop Boys album title 👏
Fab tap in my garden. I was about to check if the water flowed when a family of incy wincy spiders dangled down from its interior to grab a glimpse of a humid summer day. Fragile athletics on a teetering web. Bugger. I haven’t the heart to evict these sweet creatures with a full on tap tsunami 💕
August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Fab tap in my garden. I was about to check if the water flowed when a family of incy wincy spiders dangled down from its interior to grab a glimpse of a humid summer day. Fragile athletics on a teetering web. Bugger. I haven’t the heart to evict these sweet creatures with a full on tap tsunami 💕
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Early heads up. I am going to host another workshop for @ukeig.bsky.social @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social
September 30th - 12-2pm.
Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences
Details to come- follow UKeiG or watch this space
www.cilip.org.uk/events/event...
September 30th - 12-2pm.
Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences
Details to come- follow UKeiG or watch this space
www.cilip.org.uk/events/event...
Events Calendar - Special Interest Group: UK eInformation Group - CILIP: the library and information association
Michael Rosen keynotes our cross-sector programme which, this year, explores key themes around ethics and influencing. Join us for two days of inspiring talks, workshops and networking.
www.cilip.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Early heads up. I am going to host another workshop for @ukeig.bsky.social @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social
September 30th - 12-2pm.
Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences
Details to come- follow UKeiG or watch this space
www.cilip.org.uk/events/event...
September 30th - 12-2pm.
Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences
Details to come- follow UKeiG or watch this space
www.cilip.org.uk/events/event...
We’ve transitioned 40 years from Band Aid to Banned Aid. Good old Ian Hislop who articulated the bitter irony of the situation on tonight’s #bbcpm #GazaStarving
July 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We’ve transitioned 40 years from Band Aid to Banned Aid. Good old Ian Hislop who articulated the bitter irony of the situation on tonight’s #bbcpm #GazaStarving
Fabulous 👏 Me, the BBC and Oasis
July 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Fabulous 👏 Me, the BBC and Oasis
Whirlwind work visit to my hometown of Manchesterford. Squeezed in a steak and kidney pudding with hard core chips, gravy, mushy peas, L S Lowry… and my old mate of 56 years or so Paula 👏
July 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Whirlwind work visit to my hometown of Manchesterford. Squeezed in a steak and kidney pudding with hard core chips, gravy, mushy peas, L S Lowry… and my old mate of 56 years or so Paula 👏
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Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 !
So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people!
@cilip.bsky.social
Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 !
So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people!
@cilip.bsky.social
Such an immense pleasure to meet @ukeig.bsky.social’s two conference bursary winners Imogen and Prabina this morning. A great feeling spreading the joy of library, information and knowledge management 👏 @cilip.bsky.social
#cilipconf25
#cilipconf25
July 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 !
So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people!
@cilip.bsky.social
Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 !
So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people!
@cilip.bsky.social
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Inspiring words from Sue Bryant, opening #cilipconf25 "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Inspiring words from Sue Bryant, opening #cilipconf25 "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"
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Some of the best library events I've ever been to have opened with a poem. This is one. Thankyou Rishi 🙏 #cilipconf25
...And here's the #CILIPConf25 poem in full with a video of Rishi reading it.
Thank you Rishi - from all at Conference - and indeed the entire sector, for this beautiful gift of 'The Way, The Deep'. 💝
www.cilip.org.uk/news/704751/...
Thank you Rishi - from all at Conference - and indeed the entire sector, for this beautiful gift of 'The Way, The Deep'. 💝
www.cilip.org.uk/news/704751/...
A new poem for the profession
Poet Rishi Dastidar has created a new poem to celebrate the profession, exclsuively for CILIP
www.cilip.org.uk
July 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Some of the best library events I've ever been to have opened with a poem. This is one. Thankyou Rishi 🙏 #cilipconf25
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Brilliant keynote speech from Sebastian Cuttill at #CILIPConf25 on "the power of advocacy", putting forward a forceful argument for fighting back against allowing the AI agenda of "predominantly U.S-based tech firms to dictate our future". Am excited for the rest of the day!
July 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Brilliant keynote speech from Sebastian Cuttill at #CILIPConf25 on "the power of advocacy", putting forward a forceful argument for fighting back against allowing the AI agenda of "predominantly U.S-based tech firms to dictate our future". Am excited for the rest of the day!
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Quality panel debate at #cilipconf25 - AI, creative rights, ethics and more
AI & Copyright Regulatory debate with @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social, Seb Cuttill, @jsecker.bsky.social & Naomi Korn covering:
🔸Big Tech
🔸Unethical use of AI
🔸Craic - Creative Rights in AI Coalition
🔸Hallucination
🔸Misinformation
🔸Biased content
How can we trust anything we see? #CILIPConf25
🔸Big Tech
🔸Unethical use of AI
🔸Craic - Creative Rights in AI Coalition
🔸Hallucination
🔸Misinformation
🔸Biased content
How can we trust anything we see? #CILIPConf25
July 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Quality panel debate at #cilipconf25 - AI, creative rights, ethics and more
Such an immense pleasure to meet @ukeig.bsky.social’s two conference bursary winners Imogen and Prabina this morning. A great feeling spreading the joy of library, information and knowledge management 👏 @cilip.bsky.social
#cilipconf25
#cilipconf25
July 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Such an immense pleasure to meet @ukeig.bsky.social’s two conference bursary winners Imogen and Prabina this morning. A great feeling spreading the joy of library, information and knowledge management 👏 @cilip.bsky.social
#cilipconf25
#cilipconf25
Fabulous #CILIP conference first day (and night) yesterday. So much food for thought, and I ingested it like a hoover👏 Bring on day 2 @cilip.bsky.social #cilipconf25
July 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Fabulous #CILIP conference first day (and night) yesterday. So much food for thought, and I ingested it like a hoover👏 Bring on day 2 @cilip.bsky.social #cilipconf25
Birmingham knows I’m here 🌈👏😊 @cilip.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Birmingham knows I’m here 🌈👏😊 @cilip.bsky.social
A shout out to the great CILIP team on the morning of their two day annual conference in Birmingham. I have coffee, a biro and notebook and am raring to go. There’s old fashioned for you 👏@cilip.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A shout out to the great CILIP team on the morning of their two day annual conference in Birmingham. I have coffee, a biro and notebook and am raring to go. There’s old fashioned for you 👏@cilip.bsky.social
Donalbain in bloody Macbeth! My father the king was dead and I skipped on saying ‘what is amiss?’ The producer sighed and said, ‘we’re not doing the Polanski version dear. It’s not a game show.’ I begged them to put me in a comedy. Bloody Shakespeare
June 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Donalbain in bloody Macbeth! My father the king was dead and I skipped on saying ‘what is amiss?’ The producer sighed and said, ‘we’re not doing the Polanski version dear. It’s not a game show.’ I begged them to put me in a comedy. Bloody Shakespeare
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die #JudyGarland
June 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die #JudyGarland
Bloody hell. Must we descend into this quagmire of bullshit. We’re staring WW3 in the eye for goodness sake 😔
June 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bloody hell. Must we descend into this quagmire of bullshit. We’re staring WW3 in the eye for goodness sake 😔
My office at King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry in the early 1990s. It was in the Pepperpot building in Camberwell, South London at the famous hospital site. I sunbathed on the roof. The posters tell a tale of the info industry as it was back then @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My office at King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry in the early 1990s. It was in the Pepperpot building in Camberwell, South London at the famous hospital site. I sunbathed on the roof. The posters tell a tale of the info industry as it was back then @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social
There’s an essential truth to this, played out decades on with the ascendancy of disruptive #AI. That sense of anxiety, angst and our library, information and knowledge profession’s immediate response to get to grips @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social @nedpotter.bsky.social @colric.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There’s an essential truth to this, played out decades on with the ascendancy of disruptive #AI. That sense of anxiety, angst and our library, information and knowledge profession’s immediate response to get to grips @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social @nedpotter.bsky.social @colric.bsky.social
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The new edition of our Impact magazine is out today. This edition is jam packed with interesting articles and information.
Members can read this via our mailing list or website. If you are not a member why not consider joining? Information can be found here www.colric.org.uk/join-colric
#FE
Members can read this via our mailing list or website. If you are not a member why not consider joining? Information can be found here www.colric.org.uk/join-colric
#FE
May 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The new edition of our Impact magazine is out today. This edition is jam packed with interesting articles and information.
Members can read this via our mailing list or website. If you are not a member why not consider joining? Information can be found here www.colric.org.uk/join-colric
#FE
Members can read this via our mailing list or website. If you are not a member why not consider joining? Information can be found here www.colric.org.uk/join-colric
#FE
I must get into the habit of using this …
April 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I must get into the habit of using this …