Catherine Sutherland
@cathjsuth.bsky.social
Special Collections and Academic librarian, views my own.
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Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet
A new start for me on Monday as I become the Librarian at Clare College - with its 700th anniversary next year it'll be an exciting new challenge!
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A new start for me on Monday as I become the Librarian at Clare College - with its 700th anniversary next year it'll be an exciting new challenge!
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BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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“Both discoveries show the crucial role of county council archives and their staff in preserving this musical heritage.”
GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“Both discoveries show the crucial role of county council archives and their staff in preserving this musical heritage.”
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Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully
Should really say "Farage plans to tear up the Brexit deal he supported" since it would requiring reneging on the Withdrawal Agreement (most "foreign nationals" claiming benefits are EU citizens with settled status)
://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals
://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals
Nigel Farage to ban all foreign nationals from claiming benefits
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK leader to make announcement at press conference on Monday
www.express.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully
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NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
September 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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Maybe they could all retrain as ballet dancers
Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs - BBC News
Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs
Companies are using AI to do basic coding tasks instead of hiring junior staff.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Maybe they could all retrain as ballet dancers
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"‘A Disastrous Expedition’: I.A. Richards Caught Climbing the Roofs of Magdalene College". Check out our new article about the fabled practice of night climbing in Cambridge. Image ©Master and Fellows of Magdalene College Cambridge. @magdalenecollege.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"‘A Disastrous Expedition’: I.A. Richards Caught Climbing the Roofs of Magdalene College". Check out our new article about the fabled practice of night climbing in Cambridge. Image ©Master and Fellows of Magdalene College Cambridge. @magdalenecollege.bsky.social
Now we get to the real reason the tapestry being loaned: ‘The Bayeux Museum is scheduled to close at the end of August for a €38m (£33m) renovation which would have necessitated the moving of the tapestry regardless of any deal with Britain’. But still, I’ll look forward to seeing it!
‘Momentous occasion’: how Bayeux Museum finally said yes to tapestry loan
‘Momentous occasion’: how Bayeux Museum finally said yes to tapestry loan
Said to be too fragile to move in 2018, tests including a dress rehearsal, and a renovation have led to a change of heart
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Now we get to the real reason the tapestry being loaned: ‘The Bayeux Museum is scheduled to close at the end of August for a €38m (£33m) renovation which would have necessitated the moving of the tapestry regardless of any deal with Britain’. But still, I’ll look forward to seeing it!
Great to meet Sir Grayson Perry today! His talk at Magdalene College Cambridge this evening, to accompany the private view of the College’s latest exhibition in the Cripps art gallery, was fantastic. Thanks to my friend Sarah for taking the photo!
July 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Great to meet Sir Grayson Perry today! His talk at Magdalene College Cambridge this evening, to accompany the private view of the College’s latest exhibition in the Cripps art gallery, was fantastic. Thanks to my friend Sarah for taking the photo!
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
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THE POPE'S MOM WAS A LIBRARIAN
May 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
THE POPE'S MOM WAS A LIBRARIAN
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[extremely nigella voice]
concalavé
concalavé
May 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
[extremely nigella voice]
concalavé
concalavé
Lovely to see Torvill and Dean’s ‘bolero’ outfits at the Olympics museum today.
April 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Lovely to see Torvill and Dean’s ‘bolero’ outfits at the Olympics museum today.
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Clarivate email marketing their new AI cataloging assistant has the subject line:
"Violet – Smarter library management starts today! Can you personalize the subject line please?"
"Violet – Smarter library management starts today! Can you personalize the subject line please?"
March 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Clarivate email marketing their new AI cataloging assistant has the subject line:
"Violet – Smarter library management starts today! Can you personalize the subject line please?"
"Violet – Smarter library management starts today! Can you personalize the subject line please?"
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Orkney Library & Archive is a library AND an archive but did you know about the miniature library that is stored IN the archive?
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
March 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Orkney Library & Archive is a library AND an archive but did you know about the miniature library that is stored IN the archive?
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
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Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library!
Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible.
Check it out on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...
Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible.
Check it out on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...
Pepys' Guilty Pleasure
YouTube video by Cambridge University
www.youtube.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library!
Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible.
Check it out on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...
Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible.
Check it out on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...
Remind me what happened to the last rocket they launched?
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
Staff shortages are about to get even worse.
buff.ly
February 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Remind me what happened to the last rocket they launched?
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9 Feb 1560: Cipriano de Valera #Spanish Protestant is incorporated as a BA of #Cambridge University #otd The next year he became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
De Valera revised the #Spanish translation of the Bible
De Valera revised the #Spanish translation of the Bible
February 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
9 Feb 1560: Cipriano de Valera #Spanish Protestant is incorporated as a BA of #Cambridge University #otd The next year he became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
De Valera revised the #Spanish translation of the Bible
De Valera revised the #Spanish translation of the Bible
Just watching the channel 5 documentary about this. Digital humanities at its best!
The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum.
More info ⬇️
More info ⬇️
Inside of Herculaneum scroll seen for the first time in almost 2,000
The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum.
www.ox.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Just watching the channel 5 documentary about this. Digital humanities at its best!
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Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web!
We’re celebrating our on-going digital existence by gifting our users a spanking new digitised manuscript that we acquired in late 2022:
16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
The details!
We’re celebrating our on-going digital existence by gifting our users a spanking new digitised manuscript that we acquired in late 2022:
16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
The details!
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 645
parker.stanford.edu
January 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web!
We’re celebrating our on-going digital existence by gifting our users a spanking new digitised manuscript that we acquired in late 2022:
16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
The details!
We’re celebrating our on-going digital existence by gifting our users a spanking new digitised manuscript that we acquired in late 2022:
16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I
parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...
The details!
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This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.
January 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.