William J Nixon
@williamjnixon.bsky.social
Deputy Executive Director of Research Libraries UK & Ireland (RLUK). Convening, Representing, Supporting, Advocating & Collaborating. Own Views.
Fantastic to meet our new AHRC @rluk.ac.uk Research Catalyst Cohort colleagues at our RCC3 launch yesterday & delighted to be partnering with @armauk.bsky.social Lots of learning, networking & engagement in the room. Wishing you all every success on your research journey and we are here for you
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Fantastic to meet our new AHRC @rluk.ac.uk Research Catalyst Cohort colleagues at our RCC3 launch yesterday & delighted to be partnering with @armauk.bsky.social Lots of learning, networking & engagement in the room. Wishing you all every success on your research journey and we are here for you
Ready and waiting for our third AHRC @rluk.ac.uk Research Catalyst cohort here in Senate House for today’s launch in partnership with @armauk.bsky.social #librariesXresearch find out more at www.rluk.ac.uk/rluk-ahrc-re...
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Ready and waiting for our third AHRC @rluk.ac.uk Research Catalyst cohort here in Senate House for today’s launch in partnership with @armauk.bsky.social #librariesXresearch find out more at www.rluk.ac.uk/rluk-ahrc-re...
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Are you interested in digital collections, policy management,, outreach & training? Then you could be our next Digital Preservation Officer!
Digital Preservation Officer (Maternity Cover). Closes 26 Sept 12:00.
Apply: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs.
Digital Preservation Officer (Maternity Cover). Closes 26 Sept 12:00.
Apply: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Are you interested in digital collections, policy management,, outreach & training? Then you could be our next Digital Preservation Officer!
Digital Preservation Officer (Maternity Cover). Closes 26 Sept 12:00.
Apply: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs.
Digital Preservation Officer (Maternity Cover). Closes 26 Sept 12:00.
Apply: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs.
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We’re delighted to announce the third #RLUK #AHRC @armauk.bsky.social Research Catalyst Cohort #REPRCC for academic libraries.
Over the next year they will develop their research confidence, skills & capabilities
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🎉 Congratulations #librariesXresearch cohort! 👇
Over the next year they will develop their research confidence, skills & capabilities
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🎉 Congratulations #librariesXresearch cohort! 👇
Research Catalyst Cohort 2025-26 announced
This programme consists of a tailored cohort training programme, open events, case studies, and resources to support colleagues working across the academic library community to develop their research ...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
We’re delighted to announce the third #RLUK #AHRC @armauk.bsky.social Research Catalyst Cohort #REPRCC for academic libraries.
Over the next year they will develop their research confidence, skills & capabilities
bit.ly/47JXXty
🎉 Congratulations #librariesXresearch cohort! 👇
Over the next year they will develop their research confidence, skills & capabilities
bit.ly/47JXXty
🎉 Congratulations #librariesXresearch cohort! 👇
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We're coming to Aberdeen! 🥳
Our OUTWITH programme kicks off this Saturday by bringing our earliest publication of Scottish secular music to Aberdeen Art Gallery (whose Cowdray Hall concert venue is also having a big birthday this year).
Our OUTWITH programme kicks off this Saturday by bringing our earliest publication of Scottish secular music to Aberdeen Art Gallery (whose Cowdray Hall concert venue is also having a big birthday this year).
September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We're coming to Aberdeen! 🥳
Our OUTWITH programme kicks off this Saturday by bringing our earliest publication of Scottish secular music to Aberdeen Art Gallery (whose Cowdray Hall concert venue is also having a big birthday this year).
Our OUTWITH programme kicks off this Saturday by bringing our earliest publication of Scottish secular music to Aberdeen Art Gallery (whose Cowdray Hall concert venue is also having a big birthday this year).
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Kathleen Shearer shares the results of a @coar-repositories.bsky.social survey designed to better understand the effects of the growing number of 🤖 AI bots and crawlers, which can disrupt repositories and other scholarly communications infrastructures: youtu.be/oXjSwofZF-A
Artificial Intelligence Bots and Repositories—Results and Next Steps from COAR Survey
There are a growing number of artificial intelligence (AI) bots crawling repositories. These automated bots, or crawlers, navigate the internet, gathering data and indexing information for search…
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September 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Kathleen Shearer shares the results of a @coar-repositories.bsky.social survey designed to better understand the effects of the growing number of 🤖 AI bots and crawlers, which can disrupt repositories and other scholarly communications infrastructures: youtu.be/oXjSwofZF-A
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Abstract submission closes next week! #LAG2026
The seminar will dive into topics from emerging trends to challenges & innovative ideas in library architecture. We seek Standard Presentation or a Lightning Talks on new library projects in Europe.
👉 Topics & submission guidelines: ow.ly/L9jB50WTclG
The seminar will dive into topics from emerging trends to challenges & innovative ideas in library architecture. We seek Standard Presentation or a Lightning Talks on new library projects in Europe.
👉 Topics & submission guidelines: ow.ly/L9jB50WTclG
September 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Abstract submission closes next week! #LAG2026
The seminar will dive into topics from emerging trends to challenges & innovative ideas in library architecture. We seek Standard Presentation or a Lightning Talks on new library projects in Europe.
👉 Topics & submission guidelines: ow.ly/L9jB50WTclG
The seminar will dive into topics from emerging trends to challenges & innovative ideas in library architecture. We seek Standard Presentation or a Lightning Talks on new library projects in Europe.
👉 Topics & submission guidelines: ow.ly/L9jB50WTclG
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Always a treat to visit Manchester University’s John Rylands Library. Today for a meeting of the RLUK Collections Strategy Network
September 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Always a treat to visit Manchester University’s John Rylands Library. Today for a meeting of the RLUK Collections Strategy Network
Ambridge must have a really strict library service with the amount of fretting Adam was doing over a missing library book (although missing and lost library books are no laughing matter…) in the #thearchers tonight
September 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Ambridge must have a really strict library service with the amount of fretting Adam was doing over a missing library book (although missing and lost library books are no laughing matter…) in the #thearchers tonight
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🟢 #RLUKDSF | Thinking Fast & Slow about #AI | 🗓 8 Oct
Join us in Oct to hear Paul Gooding (Glasgow) discuss principles for determining ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ approaches to #AI implementation to help libraries better respond to the challenges of implementing new technologies
🎟️ Sign up bit.ly/RLUKDSF
Join us in Oct to hear Paul Gooding (Glasgow) discuss principles for determining ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ approaches to #AI implementation to help libraries better respond to the challenges of implementing new technologies
🎟️ Sign up bit.ly/RLUKDSF
September 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🟢 #RLUKDSF | Thinking Fast & Slow about #AI | 🗓 8 Oct
Join us in Oct to hear Paul Gooding (Glasgow) discuss principles for determining ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ approaches to #AI implementation to help libraries better respond to the challenges of implementing new technologies
🎟️ Sign up bit.ly/RLUKDSF
Join us in Oct to hear Paul Gooding (Glasgow) discuss principles for determining ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ approaches to #AI implementation to help libraries better respond to the challenges of implementing new technologies
🎟️ Sign up bit.ly/RLUKDSF
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Read our new blog post outlining COAR's proposed new approach to multilingual discoverability across the global repository network: "Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... Very exciting!!!!
Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search
September 8, 2025 by Lautaro Matas and Kathleen Shearer Introduction Every day, researchers around the world publish knowledge in hundreds of languages — Spanish in Argentina, Portuguese in Brazil,…
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September 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Read our new blog post outlining COAR's proposed new approach to multilingual discoverability across the global repository network: "Breaking language barriers in science through semantic multilingual search" coar-repositories.org/news-updates... Very exciting!!!!
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Excellent piece by Mark Lawson in today’s @theguardian.com reviewing ‘Now Whitehouse’, the new play by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social on Mary Whitehouse. Caroline used the Mary Whitehouse archive @bodleian.ox.ac.uk as part of her research for the play. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
‘The one thing it doesn’t have is actual sex’: the new Mary Whitehouse play that would have infuriated Mary Whitehouse
She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Excellent piece by Mark Lawson in today’s @theguardian.com reviewing ‘Now Whitehouse’, the new play by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social on Mary Whitehouse. Caroline used the Mary Whitehouse archive @bodleian.ox.ac.uk as part of her research for the play. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
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The dates are set for the next LIBER Annual Conference: 1-3 July 2026!
Themed 'The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World', #LIBER2026 is where the European research library community comes together to share knowledge & drive libraries forward.
More details will follow 🌟 liberconference.eu
Themed 'The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World', #LIBER2026 is where the European research library community comes together to share knowledge & drive libraries forward.
More details will follow 🌟 liberconference.eu
September 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The dates are set for the next LIBER Annual Conference: 1-3 July 2026!
Themed 'The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World', #LIBER2026 is where the European research library community comes together to share knowledge & drive libraries forward.
More details will follow 🌟 liberconference.eu
Themed 'The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World', #LIBER2026 is where the European research library community comes together to share knowledge & drive libraries forward.
More details will follow 🌟 liberconference.eu
Registered for OAI14, online in November this year from 10-14 November with 5 sessions dedicated to Open Science in a Changing World. Register at oai.events/oai14/
September 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Registered for OAI14, online in November this year from 10-14 November with 5 sessions dedicated to Open Science in a Changing World. Register at oai.events/oai14/
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We’re excited that @masudk.com will represent #KEN at the inaugural Global Innovation Circle on Higher Education (GICHE) this October in Hannover - shaping conversations on inclusive, resilient, and innovative futures for higher Education. #GICHE #CollaborativeLeadership #FutureGenerations
August 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We’re excited that @masudk.com will represent #KEN at the inaugural Global Innovation Circle on Higher Education (GICHE) this October in Hannover - shaping conversations on inclusive, resilient, and innovative futures for higher Education. #GICHE #CollaborativeLeadership #FutureGenerations
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🔵 #RLUK26 #CFP | Stewardship in challenging times:
the role of libraries in supporting civic society
📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all.
🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf
the role of libraries in supporting civic society
📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all.
🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf
August 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🔵 #RLUK26 #CFP | Stewardship in challenging times:
the role of libraries in supporting civic society
📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all.
🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf
the role of libraries in supporting civic society
📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all.
🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf
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In a new #RLUK blog post, @davidprosser.bsky.social looks at how we can anticipate future challenges for research libraries & how this may shape the development of RLUK’s next strategy.
Blog Post | Looking to the Future - Mapping the Environment for Research Libraries - Research Libraries UK
The current RLUK strategy, Transforming the Library, runs until the end of 2025. This year, we have been looking to draft a new strategy that will take us to 2030.
Predicting the environment in which...
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August 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In a new #RLUK blog post, @davidprosser.bsky.social looks at how we can anticipate future challenges for research libraries & how this may shape the development of RLUK’s next strategy.
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We are seeking expert support to develop a new strategic plan that will guide us and the public #Library sector through a period of significant change.
The closing date for applications for tender is 8 September.
Find out more:
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
The closing date for applications for tender is 8 September.
Find out more:
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
August 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We are seeking expert support to develop a new strategic plan that will guide us and the public #Library sector through a period of significant change.
The closing date for applications for tender is 8 September.
Find out more:
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
The closing date for applications for tender is 8 September.
Find out more:
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/opportunitie...
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The 14th OAI Workshop will take place online 10-14 November 2025, with the theme of Open Science in a changing world.
Registration is free and open to anyone across the globe. - oai.events/oai14/.
Registration is free and open to anyone across the globe. - oai.events/oai14/.
OAI14 – OAI
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August 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The 14th OAI Workshop will take place online 10-14 November 2025, with the theme of Open Science in a changing world.
Registration is free and open to anyone across the globe. - oai.events/oai14/.
Registration is free and open to anyone across the globe. - oai.events/oai14/.
Great to see that @coar-repositories.bsky.social Notify functionality is now available to ePrints users, find out more at coar-notify.net/catalogue/im...
August 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Great to see that @coar-repositories.bsky.social Notify functionality is now available to ePrints users, find out more at coar-notify.net/catalogue/im...
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And #DHOx2025 goes out on a high! 🎉 Big thanks to our participants, speakers, convenors & events team for making this Summer School a success, we loved it and hope you did too! ❤️🙌 Until next time!
#digitalhumanities
#digitalhumanities
August 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
And #DHOx2025 goes out on a high! 🎉 Big thanks to our participants, speakers, convenors & events team for making this Summer School a success, we loved it and hope you did too! ❤️🙌 Until next time!
#digitalhumanities
#digitalhumanities
Delighted to have you and colleagues join us from Leeds today, and love that you ran it as a mini-strand with our AI Libraries strand. Wishing you all every success and thanks so much for leading such an engaged and rich session - and to your colleagues.
It was lovely to join the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries online cohort this morning to share our University of Leeds Libraries AI Principles and how we developed them, as well as 4 use cases from Frances Varley, Eddie Meehan, Stuart Bowes and Simon Popple. @dcch-leeds.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Delighted to have you and colleagues join us from Leeds today, and love that you ran it as a mini-strand with our AI Libraries strand. Wishing you all every success and thanks so much for leading such an engaged and rich session - and to your colleagues.
It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our #DHOxSS2025 @rluk.ac.uk #AILibraries strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.
Day 4 at #DHOxSS2025 (yesterday...) I took this shot in the online strand studio. Convenors William and Andrew, ops Daisy and Ayla (right to left). And just to add, the online participants have been fab!
August 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It felt like the Radio 4 Today studio! Really great range of talks in our #DHOxSS2025 @rluk.ac.uk #AILibraries strand and a pleasure and privilege to be part of Team DHOxSS this week. Thanks to our online participants and all our fabulous speakers.
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📣 We're hiring: Head of Service Delivery
The #HeadofServiceDelivery holds strategic responsibility for the service delivery function for #researchers at the @nlireland.bsky.social.
⭐ More info + #apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📅 Apply by: 3pm, 19 September 2025
#jobfairy #libraryjobs
The #HeadofServiceDelivery holds strategic responsibility for the service delivery function for #researchers at the @nlireland.bsky.social.
⭐ More info + #apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📅 Apply by: 3pm, 19 September 2025
#jobfairy #libraryjobs
August 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📣 We're hiring: Head of Service Delivery
The #HeadofServiceDelivery holds strategic responsibility for the service delivery function for #researchers at the @nlireland.bsky.social.
⭐ More info + #apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📅 Apply by: 3pm, 19 September 2025
#jobfairy #libraryjobs
The #HeadofServiceDelivery holds strategic responsibility for the service delivery function for #researchers at the @nlireland.bsky.social.
⭐ More info + #apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📅 Apply by: 3pm, 19 September 2025
#jobfairy #libraryjobs
Mission Control for the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from @masudk.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Mission Control for the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries strand with Andrew Cusworth after a fantastic opening keynote from @masudk.com