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Gavin Willshaw @gwillshaw.bsky.social · 6h

We've been working on our new Digital Collections Platform - launching formally in 2026. Thanks @emmahorrell.bsky.social for all your UX guidance and support!

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How usability testing guided user-centred improvements of the Digital Collections Platform – Website and Communications Blog

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 3d

finished off this big fella this evening, pretty happy with the results 🤖🖌️

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 4d

but certainly he lost gloriously

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 4d

love the single slayer going into the flank of them grey boys - epic!

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 4d

spent an hour cursing to myself quietly late last night as I glued bits of old speaker wire and garden wire to a plastic robot...
not done yet, but happy with taking a chance to get this effect.

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 4d

went to see Julie Brook's Tide Line just beyond Cellardyke tidal pool last weekend. The dog was just as excited as we were...

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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 6d

This is one of the lesser known (but tragic) consequences of Gen AI. It’s not just about theft of IP, which is usually mentioned, it’s about damage to the information infrastructure of underfunded archives, libraries and museums etc. with long term consequences for them and for researchers.

Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 6d

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.

The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 6d

trick is, only about 25% of the archive is catalogued to anything nearing a sensible level!

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 6d

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.

The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 6d

managed a wee work trip down the mound to the RSA to see the Goldsworthy exhibition before it shuts with my co-director and all around copilot Jacky

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 7d

very pleased to be offering an open ended Archives Cataloguing post working with the University of Edinburgh's wide and deep literary archives. please do share with anyone interested! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Scottish Literary Archives Cataloguer (Corson Endowment)

Scottish Literary Archives Cataloguer (Corson Endowment) The Opportunity: The Heritage Collections department is pleased to advertise an opportunity to join our team as the Scottish Literary Archives ...

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University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 26d

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."

ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025

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Portrait of John Unsworth in a suit, standing in sunlight with a shadowed background.

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 27d

Lothian Health Services Archive Cataloguer: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

LHSA Archives Cataloguer

This role is an important position within Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA), helping us to make our collections accessible and discoverable for broad and diverse audiences in accordance with arch...

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 27d

Photographic Collections Archivist:
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Photographic Archivist (Foundation Endowment)

This position will oversee the archival management and curatorial understanding of the photographic collections of the University of Edinburgh, managed as part of its Heritage Collections. Over the ne...

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 27d

despite everything going on, I'm so happy to be able to keep creating jobs in the heritage sector, check out the following listings for: Assistant Musical Instruments Curator:
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Assistant Musical Instruments Curator (Mirrey Endowment)

We are looking for a knowledgeable and experienced musical instrument curator to work in the Musical Instrument Collection at the University of Edinburgh.

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm so glad - it has been a grounding force in our expat lives, and even during my sojourn to Oxford we kept coming back here for holidays. I'm so lucky to have found a job that allowed us to call the Neuk home.

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

you're just down the hill from me 🦀

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 27

A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August

Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 4

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

Today our project is linked on the front page of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's website! Our fantastic postdocs @hagenilda.bsky.social and @sharonhoward.bsky.social get a well-deserved mention: www.ed.ac.uk/news/memoirs...
#EarlyModern #DigiHums #BookHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Memoirs share vivid life of 17th century woman | News | The University of Edinburgh

Research into a manuscript discovered at Durham Cathedral has provided insights on the captivating life of a 17th century writer and memoirist.

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · Aug 3

These are so rad!

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy birthday, boss!

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

lots to digest in this piece - including the real cost of realising the intrinsic & data potentials in our collections.

The work needed to catalogue, digitise, contextualise and curate massive historic archives and collections is still very much a human resources (and not AI) driven endeavour.

Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · Jul 29

Jewish leaders urge Edinburgh University to uphold antisemitism definition as academics press for more investigations into Edinburgh's finances 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#Edinburghracereport

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Jewish leaders urge Edinburgh University to uphold antisemitism definition

Institution has said it is reviewing its support for IHRA’s definition as critics argue it restricts freedom of speech

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · Jul 28

“Facing up to the past is crucial. But the real challenge for institutions and the societies they are part of is to act in ways informed by new knowledge” - @theguardian.com editorial 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇🏾

#Edinburghracereport

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The Guardian view on the legacies of slavery: the response to Edinburgh’s report must go beyond academia | Editorial

Editorial: Facing up to the past is crucial. But the real challenge for institutions and the societies they are part of is to act in ways informed by new knowledge

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · Jul 29

‘The real issue is change’: @proftjcurry.bsky.social - Edinburgh’s first Black philosophy professor, on racism and reform

'How do you create leagues of Black thinkers and clinicians and doctors and engineers and artists that fill the gap of what were lost...' 👇

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‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform

Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

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