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Sjoukje Schots
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Special interest in business, law, technology, education, engineering, languages, KM, IM and librarianship.
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✨Dates for your diaries✨

BLA Summer Conference 2026

More details TBC.

Want to sponsor? Contact [email protected].

#BLA26 #Brighton #BusinessLibrarians
🎉 BLA summer conference announcement! 🎉
Save the date: Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026.
Place: University of Brighton.

This years theme will be "Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution".

Bookings will be open soon!
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We’re excited to share our new main catalogue, making it easier for you to find and request the majority of our published collection. We’ve also launched an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Find out how to start searching and requesting on our website bit.ly/BLNewCatalogues
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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We need your help! Vote for THE LIBRARIANS for the Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Award!

Support our hero librarians & the Freedom to Read movement by voting for us!

Voting opens NOW until Dec 16th!

Vote here, often & share the news: www.CinemaEyeHonors.com/Audience-Choice-Voting/
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Experience the Bodleian like never before on this exclusive guided tour! ✨

🗓️ Selected dates in December 2025
📍 At the Bodleian Library
🎟️ £20 per person

Book now: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tours/after-hours-tour
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI

✍️ @eve.gd

#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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We have updated our guidance on the use of ChatGPT, and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language model systems (LLMs), following recent case law at the High Court and the fast-paced development of the technology.

Read the guidance ➡️ https://bit.ly/4ijAv9E
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Everybody has a right to make their own mind up, informed by a range of good information - that's power. It's also a fundamental issue for our profession. Yet is under attack. CILIP members & non-members can join this new #IntellectualFreedom Committee www.cilip.org.uk/news/713670/...
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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We're excited to announce our FREE open-access #CILIPMembersFest26. The festival will again offer a selection of exciting workshops, trainings & discussions co-programmed by CILIP and our groups & networks.
Explore our programme & book 👉 https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/MembersFest26
📅2 - 6 March 2026
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
✨Dates for your diaries✨

BLA Summer Conference 2026

More details TBC.

Want to sponsor? Contact [email protected].

#BLA26 #Brighton #BusinessLibrarians
🎉 BLA summer conference announcement! 🎉
Save the date: Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd July 2026.
Place: University of Brighton.

This years theme will be "Libraries as Strategic Partners: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Institution".

Bookings will be open soon!
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Likely many other services too, including library ones - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Keep it short and find what you enjoy: how to start reading for fun
Keep it short and find what you enjoy: how to start reading for fun
In a world full of distractions, it can be difficult to form a habit that needs attention. Experts advise on getting out of the rut
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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There are three days left to vote for the OU's Open Societal Challenges (OSC) collaborative research platform in the Knowledge Exchange Awards 2025! ⏰

Learn more about the OU's research projects and cast your vote 👉 https://ke.org.uk/news/ke-awards-2025-public-vote-is-now-open/

#Research
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books

Get your ticket now! 🎟️

🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
🔗 buff.ly/sv3I13M

#CopimConference
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt...

🔸 @kirahopkins.bsky.social
🔸 @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸 @joedeville.bsky.social
🔸 @joannaball.bsky.social
🔸 @theblochian.bsky.social

Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures
YouTube video by Open Library of Humanities
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Great to see how @brianlfrye.bsky.social and @jmiers230.bsky.social helping clarify #IPLaw issues around creating #LegalAi for #LegalResearch.

‘No One Can Own the Law’: Amici Come Out In Force to Support ROSS In Appeal of Copyright Ruling Favoring Thomson Reuters

www.lawnext.com/2025/11/no-o...
‘No One Can Own the Law’: Amici Come Out In Force to Support ROSS In Appeal of Copyright Ruling Favoring Thomson Reuters
As the long-running litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence has moved to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge's copyright rulings in fa...
www.lawnext.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Nominations are now open to celebrate our new community champions of 2026! Is there someone who shares invaluable knowledge that sparks new ideas or inspires thought provoking action? Get those names in ⤵️
Community champions - Jisc
Celebrating extraordinary people supporting communities.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The pilot for the Green Libraries Self-Assessment Framework is open for libraries to sign-up to and test #GreenLibraries

forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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German academic freedom initiative funds first arrivals.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports 74 researchers to move to Germany, from nations including US.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
German academic freedom initiative funds first arrivals - Research Professional News
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports 74 researchers to move to Germany, from nations including US
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Coming full circle at #WLIC2027 🟢

A century after 15 library associations first came together in Edinburgh to establish #IFLA, we will return to the UK to celebrate 100 years of global #library work.

Read the full statement https://tr.ee/ePvIBm

#IFLA100
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM