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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 6d

Booking is open for @cilip.bsky.social Library & Information History conference! It'll be at @natlibscot.bsky.social on 21 November! Featuring a genuinely stellar line-up, all in person. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-of... @cilipscotland.bsky.social @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social

Freedom of Information/Information as Freedom

CILIP Library and Information History Group Conference 2025

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Aug 7

Some timely lunchtime reading...

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Aug 4

Shout out to my @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social colleagues for putting together a conference that looks fruitful, fun and is *practically free* rbscgconference2025.eventbrite.com

CILIP RBSCG Conference 2025

Standards, Systems and Discoverability of Special Collections

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Jun 25

A pleasure to meet #SuperSheltie and his Super Librarians! #LoveLibraries

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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 25

You might have noticed #SuperSheltie has been keeping a low profile since Twitter went all Musky. Well our National Library was missing him so much they sent a crack team up yesterday to find him! 🙂😎🐎
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@natlibscot.bsky.social action will be coming before long - and more #SuperSheltie

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Jun 2

8.31 out of Edinburgh seems to be the Librarian Express this morning. See you all at CILIPS! @cilipscotland.bsky.social

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · May 21

Zooming down to London for a very brief visit with colleagues to present at @rluk.ac.uk event celebrating the role of libraries in research!

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · May 8

Went to an excellttalk by the fabulous @jilld17.bsky.social and the @natlibscot.bsky.social this evening. Unfortunately all my photos of Jill were unflattering, but my colleague and I loved this quote: law books lumped in terms of regard alongside random rubbish on the library shelves 😂

Photo of a slide displayed during a talk. An extract reads "we might at least establish a respectable nucleus, with every prospect of important accessions, which instead of the meagre and heterogeneous assemblage which now lumber our shelves, of law, medicine, midwifery, and all sorts of rubbish."

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Edwina Penge @edwinapenge.bsky.social · Apr 15

Interested in big house libraries? My article about the library at the National Trust's Springhill is out now: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/lih.2025.0189 Many thanks to LIH's editors Nadine Kozak & @jilld17.bsky.social.

The big house and the book-collecting game: notes on a partial twentieth-century library dispersal | Library & Information History

The big house library in Ireland was on a precarious footing in the early twentieth century. Successive sales assisted the demise, or diminishment, of the houses’ book collections. Libraries were ofte...

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Apr 10

**shameless plug** www.nls.uk/whats-on/whe...

Where does an old book belong

Trace the movement of books from National Museum to National Library of Scotland in this fascinating talk by Head of Reader Services, Jill Dye.

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Apr 10

Spending a very nice lunchtime on the hunt for images for a talk next month. Will never get tired of the layers upon layers of life that can be witnessed within one book ❤️

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Mar 21

Will *finally* be checking out the Time & Tide Museum with 9yo niece and am pretty excited about it. Bet they don't have Woody though

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Mar 21

Off to the land of my birth for a few days. Accent already threatening to return...

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Mar 18

Yeah! @liamsims.bsky.social sent me one of these just the other day. ❤️

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · Mar 14

Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.

British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social · Mar 13

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Mar 13

Best conference pack goodie I've seen in a long time from @leedslibraries.bsky.social #edge25

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Mar 13

Next up it's @nedpotter.bsky.social on library social media in a post-Twitter world #edge25

Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Mar 13

Morning from the Edge 2025 conference!

Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · Mar 13

I’m at the Edge 2025 conference in Edinburgh.

It’s a massive public libraries conference with around 100 delegates from across the UK.

First speaker is Leslie Burger, interim Exec Director of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social.

Currently talking about successfully throwing out the Dewey system!

Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Feb 25

Excited exciting...I'm not tired....no sirree...

Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Feb 25

Excited to be sharing some of the more exciting stories from my @rluk.bsky.social funded research at @natlibscot.bsky.social in celebration of their 100th birthday! www.nls.uk/whats-on/whe...

Where does an old book belong

Trace the movement of books from National Museum to National Library of Scotland in this fascinating talk by Head of Reader Services, Jill Dye.

www.nls.uk

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Jan 14

Are you an info/knowledge professional in Edinburgh area? Would you like to network and discuss professional topics with others?
Then book on the EKLIPs talk from @jilld17.bsky.social about the role of research in the profession on the 5th February below!

scotcourts.libcal.com/calendar/Pub...

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ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a phone in her hand and says " okay trust me "

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Jan 7

New year, new job? If you're passionate about how library collections, spaces and services can support people in entrepreneurship broadly defined this could be the role for you!

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Business and Enterprise Officer - Edinburgh

We’re looking for a Business and Enterprise Officer to extend the use of the Library’s collections, services and spaces by diverse audiences in support of entrepreneurship, business and enterprise. Yo...

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Dec 9

Woo!

Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Dec 9

Off to Edinburgh for a long weekend! 💃

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Oct 14

Glorious morning with an old friend today

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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · Oct 12

I might. I am forever angry that my access to free Le Creuset is limited by the success (or lack thereof) in my love life.

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