The excellent @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social and I curated this little display at @senatehouselib.bsky.social as part of @uclspeccoll.bsky.social 60 years of Small Press collecting celebrations. Pop in to see it if you are in the area!

CFP: Special issue of Culture Machine on the University as Infrastructure

culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

Important (and also helpful) blog on AI in the context of publication from @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social . Worth reading.

Craft Thing! Join us on 10 June for an afternoon of #crafting, collection displays, and a talk on histories of political banner making by the brilliant Alice Gabb!

Free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-thin....

Happy belated birthday Karl #Marx!

Listen, put down that copy of Hello! and take a trip through the wilder side of magazines. We'll be exploring the inky world of alternative publishing: poets, artists, innovators and visionaries. 23rd May in London - still places left and not much time to register. Please SHARE SHARE SHARE!

Come hang out with @gillpartington.bsky.social @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social @djbduncan.bsky.social , me and UCL’s @uclspeccoll.bsky.social brilliant collections of magazines!

Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs

And even more importantly, hang out also with the always excellent @octavosaurus.bsky.social and @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social! What’s not to like?

@sharpnews.bsky.social @sharpweb.org

Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni...

#London #RareBooks #Archives

The cover of this booklet features such an arresting illustration. Does anyone know the name of the artist?

Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'.

Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!

This will be brilliant! If you are in London, join us on 19 Feb for a day of talks, performances, collection displays, pop up library, and actual mimeo printing magic! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolu...

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

You could read all of these zines with a Barnard Library Research Award library.barnard.edu/grants-and-a... Applications due in February.

Hang out with me and the super @uclofficial.bsky.social special collections in 2025: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Some fun new acquisitions from @uclofficial.bsky.social Special Collections!: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Yes please also

Also happy to be added

Since a billion people seem to have joined BlueSky today, take a look at this CFP & submit something!

Huge thanks to Peter Bauman (Aka Monk Antony) at Le Random www.lerandom.art for chatting to me about collecting and valuing digital art. The podcast is now available on:

Apple t.co/sM1XgMbtDS
Spotify t.co/mjXhRcLFuh
Youtube t.co/zodzqbrogn (audio only)