LibraryKilleen
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The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
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I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
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November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Happy Friday!
‘Gallant Old Engine’ (1962)
(Ladybird Artist John Kenney also illustrated for Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series)
‘Gallant Old Engine’ (1962)
(Ladybird Artist John Kenney also illustrated for Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series)
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy Friday!
‘Gallant Old Engine’ (1962)
(Ladybird Artist John Kenney also illustrated for Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series)
‘Gallant Old Engine’ (1962)
(Ladybird Artist John Kenney also illustrated for Rev. W. Awdry’s Railway Series)
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In Clerkenwell and wondering… would you get TWO parking tickets?
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In Clerkenwell and wondering… would you get TWO parking tickets?
Same! So tricky.
I've got three and I need a lie down.
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Same! So tricky.
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A slide from my (otherwise very practical) video marketing workshop for UKeIG today... 📚
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A slide from my (otherwise very practical) video marketing workshop for UKeIG today... 📚
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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tell me you don't miss the language of the 19C
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
tell me you don't miss the language of the 19C
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Bookmarks in returned library books go on display
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Bookmarks in returned South Molton Library books go on display
Bookmarks include receipts, shopping lists, children's creations and photos, staff say.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Bookmarks in returned library books go on display
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
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'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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I used the Wiener Library quite a bit for doctoral research and never knew they had Unity Mitford's diary!
"I thought the Leader absolutely charming - very cheerful and unfrightening and easy to get on with…"
This was the impression of British fascist and socialite, Unity Mitford, on first meeting Oswald Mosley in November 1933, as described in her diary which we hold in our collection...
This was the impression of British fascist and socialite, Unity Mitford, on first meeting Oswald Mosley in November 1933, as described in her diary which we hold in our collection...
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I used the Wiener Library quite a bit for doctoral research and never knew they had Unity Mitford's diary!
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Good news and fluffy owlets from our team in the South West!
Working closely with the West Cornwall Ringing Group, our ranger team has recorded the most successful barn owl breeding season in Cornwall. A total of 21 chicks were raised, a clear sign of a thriving population.
Working closely with the West Cornwall Ringing Group, our ranger team has recorded the most successful barn owl breeding season in Cornwall. A total of 21 chicks were raised, a clear sign of a thriving population.
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Good news and fluffy owlets from our team in the South West!
Working closely with the West Cornwall Ringing Group, our ranger team has recorded the most successful barn owl breeding season in Cornwall. A total of 21 chicks were raised, a clear sign of a thriving population.
Working closely with the West Cornwall Ringing Group, our ranger team has recorded the most successful barn owl breeding season in Cornwall. A total of 21 chicks were raised, a clear sign of a thriving population.
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Willy Spiller, Photographs from the New York Underground, 1977 – 1984.
More here
www.1854.photography/2016/10/will...
More here
www.1854.photography/2016/10/will...
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Willy Spiller, Photographs from the New York Underground, 1977 – 1984.
More here
www.1854.photography/2016/10/will...
More here
www.1854.photography/2016/10/will...
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Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
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The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
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When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
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I keep seeing AI in libraries as being split into two groups:
Grp 1 - ignores it, doesn't understand it, gets left behind.
Grp 2 - understands it, onboard with using it, librarian of the future.
How about a 3rd group that understands it but bc of that thinks most writing/library uses are rubbish?
Grp 1 - ignores it, doesn't understand it, gets left behind.
Grp 2 - understands it, onboard with using it, librarian of the future.
How about a 3rd group that understands it but bc of that thinks most writing/library uses are rubbish?
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I keep seeing AI in libraries as being split into two groups:
Grp 1 - ignores it, doesn't understand it, gets left behind.
Grp 2 - understands it, onboard with using it, librarian of the future.
How about a 3rd group that understands it but bc of that thinks most writing/library uses are rubbish?
Grp 1 - ignores it, doesn't understand it, gets left behind.
Grp 2 - understands it, onboard with using it, librarian of the future.
How about a 3rd group that understands it but bc of that thinks most writing/library uses are rubbish?
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Thu 6th Nov at 12:00pm - Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY finally returns to the PCC, a cornerstone of film noir and one of the greatest films ever made. Sharp, shadow-drenched and endlessly imitated, it’s a story of lust, greed, and murder that defined an era.
🎟️ : tinyurl.com/kdxaxxf8
🎟️ : tinyurl.com/kdxaxxf8
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Thu 6th Nov at 12:00pm - Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY finally returns to the PCC, a cornerstone of film noir and one of the greatest films ever made. Sharp, shadow-drenched and endlessly imitated, it’s a story of lust, greed, and murder that defined an era.
🎟️ : tinyurl.com/kdxaxxf8
🎟️ : tinyurl.com/kdxaxxf8