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Anne Welsh
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Reading, writing and cataloguing books 📚
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Inspired by @annewelsh.bsky.social to tackle some cataloguing backlog this afternoon!
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Really looking forward to more from #NAGWebinarWeek tomorrow w/ What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? w/ @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
booking info: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ - free & open to all
I feel like it might open a can of shelf un-ready worms!
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? – National Acquisitions Group
nag.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Tomorrow: NAG Webinar Week -
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Tomorrow: Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press & the University Library working together.
Free webinar 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price.
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek
@manchesterup.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The Early-Bird window for the MDG Conference 2026 #MetaFutures closes on 14/11/25!
Our programme is looking great: bit.ly/47KFNpG
We have sessions on #AI and #cataloguing, #training & #management, #collaborative #metadata, #LinkedData #openaccess & #research plus a whole day on #RDA!
Don't miss out!
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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NAG Webinar Week:
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together.
Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price.
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek
@manchesterup.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 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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NAG Webinar Week:
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November.
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
@cilipmdg.bsky.social invites participants to a WorldCafe Event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on the topic of Subject Analysis & LCSH within the current metadata landscape.

Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Poet Wilfred Owen died #OTD in 1918, a week short of the Armistice: this is the statue of him in his home town, Oswestry. Britten used Owen's poetry in his 1962 War Requiem and the following year Owen's brother Harold sent him a manuscript of Wilfred's "Anthem For Doomed Youth" in appreciation.
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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NAG Webinar Week:
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I’m thrilled to be able to share with you a project I’ve been working on this year. Intimate Histories, a series of 5 essays I’ve written and recorded about the antidote to ‘Great Man History’ is dropping on BBC Radio 4 (and i player) from the 3rd of Nov at 11:45 each morning.
October 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Fall of the Leaf, 1934
By printmaker Sybil Andrews (Canadian (born England)
Color linocut on Japanese paper #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Thanks Anne - we are looking forward to co-presenting with MUP on the successful collaboration between the University of Manchester Library and Manchester University Press to produce, enhance, and disseminate high-quality book metadata. - nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#metadatamatters #NAGwebinarweek
October 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I am so excited for #NAGwebinarweek 🤩

Two metadata / cataloguing sessions: @emmabooth.bsky.social and Beth Price (@uomlibrary.bsky.social) and @manchesterup.bsky.social on Wed 19th and me on Thursday 20th.

FREE and open to all: nag.org.uk/events/

🙏 to Jennie Hillyard and the Executive Committee🤩
October 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is:

Exhibition catalogues for newbies to art collections and/or cataloguing!
Presenters: Amy Staniforth, Yamuna Ravindran & Margaret Robinson.

Tuesday 28th October 13:00-14:00.
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing #metadata #libraries
October 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is "Linked data, Ontologies & Entity reconciliation" with Fran Frenzel, 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1) on Thurs 16/10/25.

Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #linkeddata #cataloguing #training
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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The first webinar in our Practical Cataloguing series today!
MDG Chair Will Peaden will present "Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing" at 13:00 (GMT+1)
If you have registered but have not received a link to join the webinar please contact [email protected]
We will do some live posts here.
Practical Cataloguing Webinar 1: Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing is this Wednesday 24th Sept 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1).
Free to all. Registration required: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing #cataloging #metadata #training #event #webinar #libraries
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The latest issue of Catalogue & Index is out. Some really great articles by colleagues - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

🙏 C&I editors Karen Pierce and Fran Frenzel for including my checklist for non-Marc cataloguing - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

#cataloguing #cataloging #metadata
September 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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@georgetakei.bsky.social is the 2025 Honorary Chair of #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5–11), joined by youth advocate Iris Mogul. Together they’ll spotlight the harms of censorship.
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/09/legendary-actorauthoractivist-george-takei-named-honorary-chair-banned-books-week-2025
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Frida Kahlo, 1937 by fashion photographer Toni Frissell #womensart
September 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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The Prado, national art gallery of Spain, founded in 1819, only hosted its first solo exhibition of a female artist's work in 2016, 17thc painter Clara Peeters (her work below), not untypical of many major galleries across the world....
#WomensArtHistory
September 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM