Dan O'Connor
@danjamesoc.bsky.social
Academic Librarian. Former bookshop manager and pub manager(long story). Loves history, politics, camping, cricket, and people being kind to each other. Personal account, views my own. He/him
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Universities want new business models, not just discounts.
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Universities want new business models, not just discounts.
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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Book a tour! Find out how to make the most of our services, facilities and collections by booking your place on a free tour led by IOE library staff. They take place between 22 Sept and 9 Oct, and last 30 mins (tour) or one hour (tour and induction). Book now: tinyurl.com/6xyfv8bj
September 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Book a tour! Find out how to make the most of our services, facilities and collections by booking your place on a free tour led by IOE library staff. They take place between 22 Sept and 9 Oct, and last 30 mins (tour) or one hour (tour and induction). Book now: tinyurl.com/6xyfv8bj
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Welcome to our new PGCE students! We are excited for you to visit our newly refurbished library. We have created a display specifically for you to help you become great educators. Find resources to prepare for teaching placements, navigate your UCL journey, and support your wellbeing. #NewToUCL
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Welcome to our new PGCE students! We are excited for you to visit our newly refurbished library. We have created a display specifically for you to help you become great educators. Find resources to prepare for teaching placements, navigate your UCL journey, and support your wellbeing. #NewToUCL
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If you’ve visited us before, you’ll see we’ve had a makeover. If you’re new to IOE, here's a taste of our updated space, complete with new furniture, better electrics, and more study areas: 561 in total across 3 floors. Here's Level 4, with 63 new study spaces, and new sofas, desks, and glass pods.
September 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you’ve visited us before, you’ll see we’ve had a makeover. If you’re new to IOE, here's a taste of our updated space, complete with new furniture, better electrics, and more study areas: 561 in total across 3 floors. Here's Level 4, with 63 new study spaces, and new sofas, desks, and glass pods.
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Level 5 has always been a fan favourite for users who prefer peaceful study space. We have reorganised the area to provide 40 additional study spaces and created a beautiful display area to showcase our resources. You will still find luscious greenery both inside and on view from the windows.
September 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Level 5 has always been a fan favourite for users who prefer peaceful study space. We have reorganised the area to provide 40 additional study spaces and created a beautiful display area to showcase our resources. You will still find luscious greenery both inside and on view from the windows.
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We are still putting finishing touches to things, but we'd love to hear your thoughts about the newly refurbished library. Follow this link to complete the short survey and share your views.
forms.office.com/e/pYk4XB5K1x
forms.office.com/e/pYk4XB5K1x
September 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We are still putting finishing touches to things, but we'd love to hear your thoughts about the newly refurbished library. Follow this link to complete the short survey and share your views.
forms.office.com/e/pYk4XB5K1x
forms.office.com/e/pYk4XB5K1x
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I’m convinced that people generally want much more intellectually interesting content than most media producers want to provide
Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I’m convinced that people generally want much more intellectually interesting content than most media producers want to provide
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We're reopening! On Tue 26 August we open our doors so you can explore the new-look IOE Library. Our new layout has 165 new study spaces, new pods and upgraded furniture. And all our furniture is powered so you can charge your devices easily. But note, we're closed on bank holiday Monday. #WeAreIOE
August 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We're reopening! On Tue 26 August we open our doors so you can explore the new-look IOE Library. Our new layout has 165 new study spaces, new pods and upgraded furniture. And all our furniture is powered so you can charge your devices easily. But note, we're closed on bank holiday Monday. #WeAreIOE
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Study spaces will be closed during this period but key services will continue and our Help Desk will stay open. IOE staff and students will get weekly update emails and we will also share advice and news here.
If you've got questions or concerns message us or email [email protected].
If you've got questions or concerns message us or email [email protected].
May 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Study spaces will be closed during this period but key services will continue and our Help Desk will stay open. IOE staff and students will get weekly update emails and we will also share advice and news here.
If you've got questions or concerns message us or email [email protected].
If you've got questions or concerns message us or email [email protected].
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Big news - we are excited to announce a £1.2m refurbishment project to upgrade the IOE Library taking place from 9 June to 5 August. This will deliver 170 new study spaces, better electrics, and new pods and furniture, with our print collections more visible and accessible than ever.
May 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Big news - we are excited to announce a £1.2m refurbishment project to upgrade the IOE Library taking place from 9 June to 5 August. This will deliver 170 new study spaces, better electrics, and new pods and furniture, with our print collections more visible and accessible than ever.
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BANNED. These books have all been banned or challenged, some by parents, some by political groups, who claim the books are racist, anti-Christian, pornographic or promoting homosexuality, preventing access or limiting their availability in school libraries. Visit our new display by the Help Desk.
May 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
BANNED. These books have all been banned or challenged, some by parents, some by political groups, who claim the books are racist, anti-Christian, pornographic or promoting homosexuality, preventing access or limiting their availability in school libraries. Visit our new display by the Help Desk.
Great summary of Clarivate's plans for access to books in academic libraries www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG
Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.
www.uksg.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Great summary of Clarivate's plans for access to books in academic libraries www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
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It's that time of year! Many of you will be planning your dissertations. Our new display is designed to help with this process. Alongside step-by-step dissertation guides, find out about:
- Research methods
- Literature reviews
- Systematic reviews
- Critical thinking
- Academic writing
- Research methods
- Literature reviews
- Systematic reviews
- Critical thinking
- Academic writing
February 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It's that time of year! Many of you will be planning your dissertations. Our new display is designed to help with this process. Alongside step-by-step dissertation guides, find out about:
- Research methods
- Literature reviews
- Systematic reviews
- Critical thinking
- Academic writing
- Research methods
- Literature reviews
- Systematic reviews
- Critical thinking
- Academic writing
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Book your dissertation support session now! We offer training in initial and advanced search strategies in online and face-to-face formats for IOE students. We encourage you to attend the initial search strategy session first. Sessions start 10/02 and run into April. tinyurl.com/4mezxpjd
February 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Book your dissertation support session now! We offer training in initial and advanced search strategies in online and face-to-face formats for IOE students. We encourage you to attend the initial search strategy session first. Sessions start 10/02 and run into April. tinyurl.com/4mezxpjd
Our new (to us) home from home, ready for adventures starting in a couple of weeks! We originally hired this very van last summer for a tour of cricket matches staying near grounds across England!
February 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our new (to us) home from home, ready for adventures starting in a couple of weeks! We originally hired this very van last summer for a tour of cricket matches staying near grounds across England!
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Happy St Brigid's Day, the day people traditionally spout more ahistorical nonsense about Irish "goddesses" and "pre-Christian customs" than on any other day of the year. Resist the BS! Here's a really good piece by Tiago Veloso Silva as a little antidote:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The other Brigids: the forgotten mighty women of Medieval Ireland
St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval Kildare
www.rte.ie
February 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Happy St Brigid's Day, the day people traditionally spout more ahistorical nonsense about Irish "goddesses" and "pre-Christian customs" than on any other day of the year. Resist the BS! Here's a really good piece by Tiago Veloso Silva as a little antidote:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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70% of Irish twenty-five year olds now live with their parents. I wrote about why that's obviously a very bad thing.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Everyone born in 1998 is now at least 25 — the bad news doesn't end there
There are hundreds of thousands of young adults in Ireland who will never hire a plumber or electrician, buy a lawnmower, build a shed
www.irishexaminer.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
70% of Irish twenty-five year olds now live with their parents. I wrote about why that's obviously a very bad thing.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Policy Commons' Top 20 Most-Viewed reports of 2024!
#16 . . . .
Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation: Best practices and policies to reduce consumer harms
from @Brookings.edu @BrookingsInst
➡️ coilink.org/20.500.1259...
#16 . . . .
Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation: Best practices and policies to reduce consumer harms
from @Brookings.edu @BrookingsInst
➡️ coilink.org/20.500.1259...
January 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Policy Commons' Top 20 Most-Viewed reports of 2024!
#16 . . . .
Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation: Best practices and policies to reduce consumer harms
from @Brookings.edu @BrookingsInst
➡️ coilink.org/20.500.1259...
#16 . . . .
Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation: Best practices and policies to reduce consumer harms
from @Brookings.edu @BrookingsInst
➡️ coilink.org/20.500.1259...
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English speakers that accept the pronunciation of names like Anaïs and Thibault because they know that despite using a similar alphabet they're French language names but can't grasp the same logic for Irish language names like Siobhán or Eoghan or Caoilfhionn are the worst type of willful eejits.
January 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
English speakers that accept the pronunciation of names like Anaïs and Thibault because they know that despite using a similar alphabet they're French language names but can't grasp the same logic for Irish language names like Siobhán or Eoghan or Caoilfhionn are the worst type of willful eejits.
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Australia and South Africa players leave the field at the end of the third day of the 2nd Test at Port Elizabeth in February 2014. Morne de Klerk's picture was a runner-up in the 2014 MCC Wisden Photograph of the Year
January 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Australia and South Africa players leave the field at the end of the third day of the 2nd Test at Port Elizabeth in February 2014. Morne de Klerk's picture was a runner-up in the 2014 MCC Wisden Photograph of the Year
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Your new world champion, Luke Littler.
a man wearing a target shirt is standing in front of an xbox logo
ALT: a man wearing a target shirt is standing in front of an xbox logo
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January 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Your new world champion, Luke Littler.
So much for taking it easy food wise post-Christmas
December 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM
So much for taking it easy food wise post-Christmas
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Working nights is tough
Most night workers are in health and social care, transport or warehouses, not hospitality. Nearly half report that night shifts negatively impact their sleep, and roughly 30 per cent cite worse physical and mental health. coilink.org/20.500.1259...
Most night workers are in health and social care, transport or warehouses, not hospitality. Nearly half report that night shifts negatively impact their sleep, and roughly 30 per cent cite worse physical and mental health. coilink.org/20.500.1259...
December 10, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Working nights is tough
Most night workers are in health and social care, transport or warehouses, not hospitality. Nearly half report that night shifts negatively impact their sleep, and roughly 30 per cent cite worse physical and mental health. coilink.org/20.500.1259...
Most night workers are in health and social care, transport or warehouses, not hospitality. Nearly half report that night shifts negatively impact their sleep, and roughly 30 per cent cite worse physical and mental health. coilink.org/20.500.1259...