Colette Townend
@colettet.bsky.social
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Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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hipporebecca.bsky.social
Even if I didn’t have a personal interest in librarians, I would be urging all of you with access to iPlayer to watch this documentary www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... It’s about the censorship of books in US school libraries but also about how right wing money, not facts, is influencing politics.
Storyville - The Librarians
A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.
www.bbc.co.uk
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cilip.bsky.social
Our #GreenLibraries Conference is less than 20 days away and tickets are going fast. Join us for a day packed with inspiring talks, practical insights, and powerful discussions about sustainability in libraries. Explore the full programme and book TODAY: www.cilip.org.uk/page/greenli...
Planting seeds of change title with subheading of - from small beginnings to a mighty forest, GL conference logo, 27th October, British Library, London, #GreenLibraries. Image of four board members from 2024 conference
colettet.bsky.social
For anyone else who wants to play with the dataset linked on the blog above here’s where the collection entity is listed on Wikidata www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131919...
Records of the Copyright Office, Stationers' Company
collection at the National Archives, UK
www.wikidata.org
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owenboswarva.bsky.social
UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data www.ft.com/content/d101... (£)

#encryption #e2ee #masssurveillance
The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users' data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all attempts to break the tech giant's encryption. 

The UK Home Office demanded in early September that Apple create a means to allow officials access to encrypted cloud backups, but stipulated that the order applied only to British citizens' data, according to people briefed on the matter.
colettet.bsky.social
Excited for our Black History Month programme this month - highlights include Rita Keegan 23 Oct, Wikipedia editathon 20 Oct, zine making 29 Oct & especially looking forward to the launch of our Black Interest Core Collection www.lambeth.gov.uk/black-histor... @wikimediauk.bsky.social #Lambeth
Lambeth Libraries Black History Month, A celebration of history, arts, literature and film Autumn 2025
colettet.bsky.social
Ah thanks for letting me know! I’ve reported it so hopefully will get it resolved tomorrow will update you when it is
colettet.bsky.social
ahh a shame you literally just missed this by a few days (though i found it a bit academic!) bsky.app/profile/muni... the Owen Hatherley modern buildings in Britain book is really good and probs answers a lot of these questions!
municipaldreams.bsky.social
🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals.
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Architect's drawing of Clapham Manor nursery garden Architect's drawing of housing for elderly complex
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uklibrariesnag.bsky.social
Celebrating NAG's 40th anniversary, the next of our "Spotlight on the Chair" blogs is live with our 2017-2020 Chair, Alison Harland:
nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-...
@bookgirla.bsky.social #NAGstalgia
NAG Blog, spotlight on the chair, 1985-2025 40 years of NAG
Image of a colourful chair with bookshelves behind, inset picture of Alison Harland with dates 2017-2020 beside it.  Tagged #NAGstalgia
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cilip.bsky.social
Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as a leading officer & inform the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers in UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...
CILIP LGBTQ+ Network logo
colettet.bsky.social
Still time to see this great exhibition at Lambeth Archives, open until 8pm this evening too
municipaldreams.bsky.social
🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals.
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Architect's drawing of Clapham Manor nursery garden Architect's drawing of housing for elderly complex
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals.
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...
Architect's drawing of Clapham Manor nursery garden Architect's drawing of housing for elderly complex
colettet.bsky.social
which I think implies number of citations are largely the measure of notability for this map
colettet.bsky.social
Not surprised as there’s known to be an underrepresentation of female biographies on Wikipedia (the Women in red project is great and also a great accessible place to start writing for WP) I found this write up linked from the creators twitter www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD - Scientific Data
Measurement(s) human biographies Technology Type(s) web scraping
www.nature.com
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