Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys)
@sarahhlib.bsky.social
Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social🐘&🐦 =
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
Well... I thought I'd managed to correctly tag #OxFOS26 for the @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy but for some reason it's been a day and it's not come up (was hoping to use that for my own profile to be consistent)
What did I do wrong? 😅
What did I do wrong? 😅
February 4, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Well... I thought I'd managed to correctly tag #OxFOS26 for the @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy but for some reason it's been a day and it's not come up (was hoping to use that for my own profile to be consistent)
What did I do wrong? 😅
What did I do wrong? 😅
Quick post to admire this logo. LOOK AT IT. Canadian maple leaf visualised as a network to represent a Repository CoP just sooooo good.
Canadian Repositories Community of Practice Repository Knowledge Mentorship Program 2026-2027 - Canadian Association of Research Libraries https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/canadian-repositories-community-of-practice-mentorship-program-2026/
Canadian Repositories Community of Practice Repository Knowledge Mentorship Program 2026-2027 - Canadian Association of Research Libraries
January 23, 2026 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Canadian Repositories Community of Practice invites you to join its 2026-2027 cohort of the Repository Knowledge Mentorship Program. This program […]
www.carl-abrc.ca
January 29, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Quick post to admire this logo. LOOK AT IT. Canadian maple leaf visualised as a network to represent a Repository CoP just sooooo good.
Just sent off my speaker form for #UKSG2026 - My first time ever speaking (Though I will be with conference veterans @cathdishman.bsky.social @tmorley24.bsky.social and @beckywojturska.bsky.social ) Let me know if you are at UKSG (and selfishly: if you'll be a friendly face for my talk!)
January 28, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Just sent off my speaker form for #UKSG2026 - My first time ever speaking (Though I will be with conference veterans @cathdishman.bsky.social @tmorley24.bsky.social and @beckywojturska.bsky.social ) Let me know if you are at UKSG (and selfishly: if you'll be a friendly face for my talk!)
I'm an adult and make adult decisions. #BirthdayLunch #AllTheCake
January 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I'm an adult and make adult decisions. #BirthdayLunch #AllTheCake
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Personas of librarians and their response to AI - part 2. This is all tongue in cheek. substack.com/@aarontay/no...
January 11, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Personas of librarians and their response to AI - part 2. This is all tongue in cheek. substack.com/@aarontay/no...
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Incredible stuff entering the public domain in January 1! The latest from my friends at the Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law
Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public D...
web.law.duke.edu
December 19, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Incredible stuff entering the public domain in January 1! The latest from my friends at the Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Still time to book (though we have a nice lot of people coming!)
Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
January 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Still time to book (though we have a nice lot of people coming!)
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Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
I would very much like an academic translation of this in it's entirety out of entirely author-based curiosity (and an inability to read Spanish)
'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2
‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot
Beatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I would very much like an academic translation of this in it's entirety out of entirely author-based curiosity (and an inability to read Spanish)
Trying to build e-learning? Trying desperately not to use AI assets? Guess who hadn't realised one of my go-tos is now gone: cozynest.medium.com/iconfinder-i... (and I'm glad I've got SVG files of the stuff I've already used!!!)
IconFinder Is Shutting Down: End of an Era for Icon Designers and Creative Professionals
Orkut closed, Google Plus closed, Canstockphoto closed, and now Iconfinder.
cozynest.medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Trying to build e-learning? Trying desperately not to use AI assets? Guess who hadn't realised one of my go-tos is now gone: cozynest.medium.com/iconfinder-i... (and I'm glad I've got SVG files of the stuff I've already used!!!)
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December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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*Disillusioned Roman Catholic giggle*
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
*Disillusioned Roman Catholic giggle*
Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...
This Friday I get to go and see Offspring supported by Simple Plan. Guess what I've been editing metadata tags on our helpdesk while listening to? Turns our pop punk is VERY useful for keeping keystroke movement while bopping my head and singing along. #Milennial #PopPunk
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This Friday I get to go and see Offspring supported by Simple Plan. Guess what I've been editing metadata tags on our helpdesk while listening to? Turns our pop punk is VERY useful for keeping keystroke movement while bopping my head and singing along. #Milennial #PopPunk
It is with great pride that I can now post this:
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It is with great pride that I can now post this:
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
Our Shortform hosting service (SHOx) is now live! Go and check it out: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
Spread the news - The Bodleian is doing diamond OA!
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Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS)
OxFOS is an annual event for Oxford University researchers, academics, staff and students covering developments in open access and open research.
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Call for contributions: OxFOS 2026 conference
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS), 2–6 March 2026, is a free University-wide conference exploring how to make research more open, transparent, & accessible.
Submit your proposal to present a talk/workshop by 3 Nov 25: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
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Considering just replacing all my induction slides with this one.
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Considering just replacing all my induction slides with this one.
It's that time of year again!
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS)
OxFOS is an annual event for Oxford University researchers, academics, staff and students covering developments in open access and open research.
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's that time of year again!
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Save the date! Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026), 2–6 March, Theme: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Submit your proposal to present a talk or workshop by 3 Nov 2025:
Website link: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
We're looking for some maternity cover in our team: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... come work with us!
Job Details
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September 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We're looking for some maternity cover in our team: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... come work with us!
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🚀 Exciting news for the #OpenScience community!
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
Open Science Initiatives Tracker
This dashboard provides a dynamic and community-driven overview of Open Science initiatives around the world.
amcm.shinyapps.io
September 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🚀 Exciting news for the #OpenScience community!
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.
💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...
#STIENID25
The second Bodleian Open Scholarship Event is here:
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
August 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The second Bodleian Open Scholarship Event is here:
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
Data rescue and sustainability
Date: 25/09/2025
Time: 16:00-17:00
Book here (and more info) : go.glam.ox.ac.uk/data25
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New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚
My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
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It might not be Imposter Syndrome... We need to talk about Trespasser Syndrome — Ned Potter
Back in 2014 I wrote on this blog that Imposter Syndrome ran through librarianship like a vein. Writing now in 2025, I consider that a misdiagnosis. Imposter Syndrome is defined as a psychological co...
www.ned-potter.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New post on how we use #ImposterSyndrome when perhaps we mean #TrespasserSyndrome. 📚
My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
🧵>>
My colleague Raj Mann introduced me to this new term and I can't get it out of my head. I think 'Imposter Syndrome' is a potentially harmful term we should stop misusing in Higher Ed, libraries & elsewhere...
🧵>>
Alright let's do this *opens annual review* 1 hour later... I'm going to need more GF oreos *goes to kitchen to retrieve the rest of the packet*
August 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Alright let's do this *opens annual review* 1 hour later... I'm going to need more GF oreos *goes to kitchen to retrieve the rest of the packet*
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You'd think it obvious that the catalogue doesn't replace the librarian but a great deal of my work comes from people not understanding that
I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet
“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors
And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this
And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this
August 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
You'd think it obvious that the catalogue doesn't replace the librarian but a great deal of my work comes from people not understanding that
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The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
'Wiley had attempted to keep the journal going without an academic editorial team in place, but those efforts have now come to an end. The publisher says, “All authors with active submissions will be contacted directly by Wiley to discuss available alternatives and next steps.”'
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...
dailynous.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.
This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.