Katie Barrowman
@katiealafrev.bsky.social
Collections Librarian | she/her | interests: rare books, print history, history of communication, crafts, cats, LGBTQ+
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As we approach the end of January, we hope you have enjoyed our #Newyearnewhobby display. Here is a little retrospective from us 🧶💚🎨 #trysomethingnew
January 30, 2026 at 3:52 PM
As we approach the end of January, we hope you have enjoyed our #Newyearnewhobby display. Here is a little retrospective from us 🧶💚🎨 #trysomethingnew
My turn on the socials!
This week our librarians are sharing their hobbies, with some book suggestions from our displays if you want to have a go.
Here is Katie: “ At the weekend I enjoy sewing and trying to make my own clothes. Sometimes you’ll see me wandering around the library shelving journals in a dress I made.”
Here is Katie: “ At the weekend I enjoy sewing and trying to make my own clothes. Sometimes you’ll see me wandering around the library shelving journals in a dress I made.”
January 22, 2026 at 10:48 AM
My turn on the socials!
Work has once again let me be in charge of the display...
We have just launched our New Year, New Hobby display! We are encouraging you to try something new in 2026 and pick up a new hobby. Watch this space as we delve into the hobbies within the libraries over this month...
January 7, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Work has once again let me be in charge of the display...
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As the night grows darker and Yuletide draws near, it is the perfect time to explore some British folklore. Our latest #Exploringlibraryresources blog post delves right into Hellebore one of our many Folklore zines at the library. Follow the QR code or the link below to check it out.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
As the night grows darker and Yuletide draws near, it is the perfect time to explore some British folklore. Our latest #Exploringlibraryresources blog post delves right into Hellebore one of our many Folklore zines at the library. Follow the QR code or the link below to check it out.
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Out this week in the UK & January in the US, 🐺 THE WOLF AND HIS KING👑 by @finnlongman.com is my newest favorite thing and you need to read it!
🐺🦽 lycanthropy as a metaphor for chronic illness
✒️ 3rd person, 2nd person, VERSE
🏳️🌈 uncompicatedly queer
👑every bit as gorgeous as its cover
🐺🦽 lycanthropy as a metaphor for chronic illness
✒️ 3rd person, 2nd person, VERSE
🏳️🌈 uncompicatedly queer
👑every bit as gorgeous as its cover
Silken Symbolism: The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
Retelling the poem Bisclavret, but making it queer and disabled and EVEN MORE AWESOME.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Out this week in the UK & January in the US, 🐺 THE WOLF AND HIS KING👑 by @finnlongman.com is my newest favorite thing and you need to read it!
🐺🦽 lycanthropy as a metaphor for chronic illness
✒️ 3rd person, 2nd person, VERSE
🏳️🌈 uncompicatedly queer
👑every bit as gorgeous as its cover
🐺🦽 lycanthropy as a metaphor for chronic illness
✒️ 3rd person, 2nd person, VERSE
🏳️🌈 uncompicatedly queer
👑every bit as gorgeous as its cover
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Some dark arts have been happening at the library... A new Hallo-Zine made by library staff has been summoned 👻
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Some dark arts have been happening at the library... A new Hallo-Zine made by library staff has been summoned 👻
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Check out our Penguin Archive collection to step into a vast world of classical literature 🐧
September 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Check out our Penguin Archive collection to step into a vast world of classical literature 🐧
I had great fun manning the library stand at our Fresher's Fair this week!
We've really enjoyed attending all the Freshers Fairs this week. Here are a few more photographic highlights from the University Library stand - thanks to the Student's Union for hosting us!!
September 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I had great fun manning the library stand at our Fresher's Fair this week!
So proud to have been able to present a poster at the Mercian Collaboration conference yesterday! Since January I've been working on building Wolverhampton's zine collection and yesterday I was able to show off all that work and lessons. #Mercian25
September 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
So proud to have been able to present a poster at the Mercian Collaboration conference yesterday! Since January I've been working on building Wolverhampton's zine collection and yesterday I was able to show off all that work and lessons. #Mercian25
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A joyful zine to help you get through the week #zinescene_wlv #izm2025
July 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A joyful zine to help you get through the week #zinescene_wlv #izm2025
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Spotted! Nat Reeve, author of Nettleblack and Earlyfate, stopped by the library to check out his books on our Pride display! Reeve is visiting the university for the Neo-Victorian Crime Fiction conference to discuss his books, which have a cast of queer characters solving crimes in a Victorian town.
June 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Spotted! Nat Reeve, author of Nettleblack and Earlyfate, stopped by the library to check out his books on our Pride display! Reeve is visiting the university for the Neo-Victorian Crime Fiction conference to discuss his books, which have a cast of queer characters solving crimes in a Victorian town.
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Memoirs are the backbone of our display on Queer visibility and joy – real life experiences being queer, the journeys to coming out, and life living in the open and the joys that come from being visible as your true self #PrideMonth2025
June 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Memoirs are the backbone of our display on Queer visibility and joy – real life experiences being queer, the journeys to coming out, and life living in the open and the joys that come from being visible as your true self #PrideMonth2025
Last year, I was able to attend the CILIP Conference thanks to a bursary by @ukeig.bsky.social, in exchange for a write up about the event. I'm really excited to share my report about CILIP and again express my gratitude to UKeiG for enabling me to attend!
CILIP Conference 2024 Report - UKeiG Bursary - CILIP Conference 2025
In 2024, UKeiG awarded two fully funded bursary places to CILIP Conference. Below, Katie Barrowman, one of the lucky recipients, shares her insights and learnings over the two days. Summary: A repor...
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June 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Last year, I was able to attend the CILIP Conference thanks to a bursary by @ukeig.bsky.social, in exchange for a write up about the event. I'm really excited to share my report about CILIP and again express my gratitude to UKeiG for enabling me to attend!
Work trusted me to coordinate our pride display this June. With all the bad news for the queer community out there at the moment, I chose to focus our display on Queer Joy and Visibility: We've always been here and we're going to be happy being out regardless of what you're trying to do to us 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
🎊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎉It's PRIDE!🎊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎉
We've just put up our Pride display at Harrison Library, where we have pulled out books from our collection which demonstrate Queer Joy and Visibility! #PrideMonth2025
We've just put up our Pride display at Harrison Library, where we have pulled out books from our collection which demonstrate Queer Joy and Visibility! #PrideMonth2025
June 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Work trusted me to coordinate our pride display this June. With all the bad news for the queer community out there at the moment, I chose to focus our display on Queer Joy and Visibility: We've always been here and we're going to be happy being out regardless of what you're trying to do to us 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bring this back for trans day of visibility to read about some trans joy!
Gender Euphoria edited by Laura Kate Dale records stories of joy from trans people, of those who are contributing to social change by living their lives as they wish. How better to honour the legacy of LGBT+ activists than continuing the fight for equality and fairness among the community.
March 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Bring this back for trans day of visibility to read about some trans joy!
Continuing to contribute to this blog by writing about all the prize-winning history books we have on display! Very excited to be drawing on my passion for history at work (and hoping to get my hands on Devil-land once the display comes down...)
Our latest #ExploringLibraryResources blog post is about the Wolfson History Prize and some of the women who have won or been shortlisted for this highly prestigious prize in the past few years and their books that we have on display at the University Libraries #WomensHistoryMonth
March 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Continuing to contribute to this blog by writing about all the prize-winning history books we have on display! Very excited to be drawing on my passion for history at work (and hoping to get my hands on Devil-land once the display comes down...)
This International Women's Day, I want to share the life of my Great-great-aunt Janet Barrowman the suffragette
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Janet Barrowman - Wikipedia
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March 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This International Women's Day, I want to share the life of my Great-great-aunt Janet Barrowman the suffragette
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_B...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_B...
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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International Women's Day is coming up on Saturday 8th March 2025 with a theme this year of Accelerate Action to achieving gender equality. Throughout March we will be showcasing some of our resources related to women's achievements, including displays on Prize Winners within their fields #IWD2025
March 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
International Women's Day is coming up on Saturday 8th March 2025 with a theme this year of Accelerate Action to achieving gender equality. Throughout March we will be showcasing some of our resources related to women's achievements, including displays on Prize Winners within their fields #IWD2025
As February ends and I look back over my achievements, this display and being able to talk about it in my work blog: Exploring Library Resources is definitely a highlight.
We have a new #Exploringlibraryresources post today! Follow the QR code or head to our Subject Resources page to read about why one of our librarians chose Keith Haring as the topic of a mini #LGBTPlusHM2025 themed display at Harrison Library.
March 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As February ends and I look back over my achievements, this display and being able to talk about it in my work blog: Exploring Library Resources is definitely a highlight.
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Cambridge University's attempt to restrict pro-Palestine protests until 2030 has been condemned by @ucu.org.uk, @libertyhq.bsky.social and @pscupdates.bsky.social
Cambridge University seeks court restriction on pro-Palestine protests for five years, sparking outrage from unions and civil liberties groups
‘’This is a shameful attack on basic democratic rights from Cambridge bosses"
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February 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Cambridge University's attempt to restrict pro-Palestine protests until 2030 has been condemned by @ucu.org.uk, @libertyhq.bsky.social and @pscupdates.bsky.social
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Cambridge is trying to criminalise protest on campus.
But not all protests. Only protests related to *one specific viewpoint* they consider inconvenient.
They claim to do this in the name of "scholars of the university." Sign our open letter if you weren't consulted
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
But not all protests. Only protests related to *one specific viewpoint* they consider inconvenient.
They claim to do this in the name of "scholars of the university." Sign our open letter if you weren't consulted
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Cambridge is trying to criminalise protest on campus.
But not all protests. Only protests related to *one specific viewpoint* they consider inconvenient.
They claim to do this in the name of "scholars of the university." Sign our open letter if you weren't consulted
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
But not all protests. Only protests related to *one specific viewpoint* they consider inconvenient.
They claim to do this in the name of "scholars of the university." Sign our open letter if you weren't consulted
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tomorrow Cambridge University will go to the High Court seeking to impose an unprecedented ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university. This is a major assault on longstanding principles of freedom of expression and assembly on campus. (1/8)
February 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tomorrow Cambridge University will go to the High Court seeking to impose an unprecedented ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university. This is a major assault on longstanding principles of freedom of expression and assembly on campus. (1/8)
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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
#upcycling
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
#upcycling
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My best friend when I was 6 was a Katy and the teacher refused to let me sit next to her because Katie/Katy was too confusing, so I decided to go by Kathy in school so I could sit next to this kid. My parents only found out at parents evening and had a confusing meeting until the name change came up
October 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM
My best friend when I was 6 was a Katy and the teacher refused to let me sit next to her because Katie/Katy was too confusing, so I decided to go by Kathy in school so I could sit next to this kid. My parents only found out at parents evening and had a confusing meeting until the name change came up