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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 1d

This week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update is available at academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo.... More job opportunities in the region this week, plus details of two calls for contributions - on solo experts and green OA. Get involved!

Staff Development - Academic Libraries North

Our Staff Development Offer Infographic summarises all the great staff development stuff we do to support our member institutions.

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 15d

This week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update is available at academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo.... Lots of job opportunities in the region this week, plus details of how you can get involved in our staff development programme for 2025/26, and some interesting looking external events.

Staff Development - Academic Libraries North

Our Staff Development Offer Infographic summarises all the great staff development stuff we do to support our member institutions.

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 21d

In this week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update you'll find
details of the first few events in 2025/26 programme, an opportunity to get involved in a solo expert event and a frontline forum event, as well as a host of job vacancies in the region: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

Staff Development - Academic Libraries North

Our Staff Development Offer Infographic summarises all the great staff development stuff we do to support our member institutions.

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 29d

In this week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update you'll find
details of the first few events in 2025/26 programme and a host of job opportunities in the region: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

Staff Development Weekly Update - Academic Libraries North

This weekly update is intended to keep you up to date on ALN's staff development programme; to highlight interesting initiatives being undertaken by ALN or

academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk

Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 29d

Not at all jealous of any of that, @playbrarian.uk! 😀

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 23

In this week's ALN Staff Development Weekly Update you'll find
details of a job opportunity with ALN; the first couple of events in 2025/26 programme; a first look at our new Staff Development infographic; and an NLISN neurodivergent library staff survey: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

Staff Development Weekly Update - Academic Libraries North

This weekly update is intended to keep you up to date on ALN's staff development programme; to highlight interesting initiatives being undertaken by ALN or

academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective

Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Check out these beautiful books, very kindly donated to us by our #ALN25 platinum sponsors, @manchesterup.bsky.social, for our analogue social media competition 📚 Thank you so much! Congratulations to our lucky winner, Kirsty Hemsworth 😊

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Check out these beautiful books, very kindly donated to us by our #ALN25 platinum sponsors, @manchesterup.bsky.social, for our analogue social media competition 📚 Thank you so much! Congratulations to our lucky winner, Kirsty Hemsworth 😊

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 16

This week's ALN Staff Development Update details the last event in the 2024/5 programme, jobs and opportunities such as details of new ways to join the NLISN; EDI initiatives and SCONUL initiatives; and proposed dates for Frontline Forums 2025/26: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...

Staff Development Weekly Update - Academic Libraries North

This weekly update is intended to keep you up to date on ALN's staff development programme; to highlight interesting initiatives being undertaken by ALN or

academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk

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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · Jul 15

Join @jisc.bsky.social online next week to explore how organisations can deepen collaboration to tackle shared challenges in #OpenAccess

We have an exciting panel of speakers lined up for you!

🌐 Strengthening through collaboration
📅 21 July 2025 | 10:00–12:00 BST
🔗 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/stren...

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 14

Little by little we made our way to keynotes, workshops, tours of the poetry library, sponsor stalls, lunch and lightning talks. We hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did 😊

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 14

What an incredible day at #ALN25 last Friday! 🎉

Huge thanks to our planning team, presenters, attendees, sponsors, and everyone who helped bring the day to life - we couldn’t have done it without you!

MMU Business School atrium with conference delegates

Rachel Beckett (Director, Library and Cultural Services, Manchester Metropolitan University)

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

We’re about to host the closing talk of the conference, where we’ll announce the winners of our competitions and bring the day to a close #ALN25

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our sponsors help to make the conference the success it always is!

Thank you to our silver sponsors: Content Online; De Gruyter Brill; HS Talks; The Social History Archive; VitalSource; Clarivate; and Bloomsbury Publishing.

#ALN25

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our gold sponsor for the in-person day is OCLC (www.oclc.org/en/home.html).

Thank you for supporting ALN Conference 2025 😊

#ALN25

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our Platinum sponsor for the conference is Manchester University Press (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk) @manchesterup.bsky.social

Thank you for supporting ALN Conference 2025 😊

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now we're hearing a talk from our gold sponsor, OCLC #ALN25

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Katharine Davidson-Brown @libraritron.bsky.social · Jul 11

love this! #ALN25

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · Jul 11

Sidenote: seriously impressed that @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social have managed live captions for their keynote, not seen anyone use that Powerpoint function for their audience before (more of this please!) #ALN25

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ruthburns.bsky.social @ruthburns.bsky.social · Jul 11

#ALN25. Brilliant wellbeing session Painting by numbers with Fred Milton. Decided to paint outside the lines but my chaffinch doesn't look too bad and I feel much more relaxed for it.

A watercolour sketch of a bird with purple, rose, and black feathers

A printed labelled picture of a chaffinch which has purply grey feathers, a rosy orange chest and black patterned tail feathers.

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Now we've got some more workshops and short papers. We hope you're enjoying the day so far! 😊 #ALN25

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Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · Jul 11

Fantastic tour round the Manchester Poetry library: really got me thinking about art in library spaces and how welcoming it makes the space #ALN25

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

A visit to the rather wonderful (and only public one of its kind) Poetry Library. #aln25

Collage of paper love hearts, photographs and poems.

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

➡️ Take part in our analogue social media competition and create a short social media-style post on a piece of card, which will be pinned to our board.

The winners will be announced at the end of the day #ALN25

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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · Jul 11

We're running two competitions today! ✨

➡️ Share a photo that sums up your experience of ALN 2025. Please email us at [email protected] or directly message us with your photo @academiclibrariesnorth on Instagram by 2pm.

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