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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 6h

Watch #TheLibrarians documentary on BBC Four's Storyville www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 12h

Can't wait to hear from Geoff Barton at the CILIP AGM 14 Oct, register here www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... plus I'll preview our new 5-year strategy, we'll share Trustee and Vice-President candidates, and much more

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 1d

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... is Putin after libraries' rare Russian books?

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were…

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 1d

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Web-Scale Discovery | Policy Commons policycommons.net/artifacts/26... ODI research echoes our own, finding librarians are concerned about #AI misrepresentation, opacity and climate harm

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Web-Scale Discovery | Policy Commons

This is a document published by NISO Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee in August 2025 about Libraries. It was written by Ken Varnum (University of Michigan), Rachel Kessler (Clarivate),…

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 2d

World Economic Forum's report on media & information literacy, with libraries featured throughout www.weforum.org/publications....

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 2d

BBC News - Idlewild: 'Small music venues need protecting like libraries'
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Idlewild: 'Small music venues need protected like libraries'

The group formed as students in Edinburgh and have just released their 10th album on Friday.

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 5d

👀 note the two references to libraries in the Prime Minister's closing speech to #Lab25 labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...

PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Party Conference speech in full - LabourList

PM Keir Starmer addresses Conference in full

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 5d

👀 note the two references to libraries in the Prime Minister's closing speech to #Lab25 labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...

PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Party Conference speech in full - LabourList

PM Keir Starmer addresses Conference in full

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 5d

The pageant of life, seen through your public library #LibrariesChangeLives via Newark Trust

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 5d

BBC News - Official quits after dispute over Trump's Eisenhower sword gift to King Charles
www.bbc.com/news/article... there goes another senior US librarian

Trump's Eisenhower sword gift to King Charles leads to official resigning

The library director reportedly rejected a request for the White House to gift an Eisenhower sword to King Charles.

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 6d

Today we have even more billionaires … what are they doing to support the diffusion of knowledge and the mental culture of all? observer.co.uk/news/opinion... #LibrariesChangeLives

Libraries are palaces for the people. Their ramparts need...

The spirit of public improvement that led to the legislation that created free public libraries 175 years go needs to be rekindled

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 8d

Dorset school ban on book about race is a mistake | Letters www.theguardian.com/education/20... What the Professor said #GreatSchoolLibraries

Dorset school ban on book about race is a mistake | Letters

Letter: Prof Nicky Marsh says Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give encourages pupils to interact with people whose views don’t coincide with their own

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 8d

If the school had a librarian who'd had SLT/governors sign-off book challenge and collections policies this probably wouldn't have happened. All our children deserve more than just a shelf of books.

Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 10d

Dorset school urged to reinstate banned book about race to reading list

Budmouth Academy in Weymouth removed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas after complaint from parent

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 8d

Reeves pledges £10m to put a library in every primary schoolsweek.co.uk/rachel-reeve... Great news 1,700 libraries will get £ for spaces & stock, the next step is access to expert librarian staff

Reeves pledges £10m to put a library in every primary

1,700 new school libraries planned, but unclear if schools will get money for staffing

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 9d

#TheLibrarians film review — when school staff fought back against book bans. 4/5 stars. In cinemas now www.ft.com/content/3bd3...

The Librarians film review — when school staff fought back against book bans

Documentary follows the dark experiences of librarians in Texas, Florida and elsewhere and traces the origins of the campaign

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 9d

Reeves on her teacher parents (snap), closed libraries under past govts, this govt's record, & pledges libraries in the 1,700 primaries without #GreatSchoolLibraries #Lab25 It has to include access to librarians

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 9d

Great hosting ministers across DCMS & DfE plus other politicians from both houses. The Culture Sec, PM & his wife even came by to say hello at our joint party conference dinner with @readingagency.bsky.social on how reading changes lives #Lab25

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 9d

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England www.theguardian.com/politics/202... good to hear more on this, will it include access to a librarian though? #LAB25

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England

Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 10d

Dorset school urged to reinstate banned book about race to reading list

Budmouth Academy in Weymouth removed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas after complaint from parent

www.theguardian.com

Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 10d

The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #TheLibrarians

The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship

Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacks

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 14d

Mary Beard warns that autocrats rely on collaborators not just activists, and asks if we would allow books we don't like to be banned #TheLibrarians thelibrariansfilm.com

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 14d

Ahead of screening #TheLibrarians, The Bodleian and Royal Society of Literature remind us censorship's nothing new, and the role of all librarians deserves recognition

Richard Ovenden receives the RSL Benson Medal

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 14d

A great piece from the British Library LibraryOn team as we celebrate 175 years since the first Public Libraries Act and ask if the second version from 1964 is still fit for purpose blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/...

The Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries

This post was written by Jenny Pearce, Senior Marketing Manager for LibraryOn at the British Library. 2025 sees the 175th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act 1850. The Act was an initial step in…

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 16d

Big shoes to fill but what an exciting role tackling #DigitalInclusion as CEO of Good Things Foundation starfishsearch.com/jobs/gtf-ceo/ up to £120k, deadline 24 Oct

Chief Executive Officer - Starfish Search

Good Things Foundation is the UK’s leading digital inclusion charity. Since our founding in 2011, we have been at the forefront of tackling digital exclusion in the UK, Australia, and beyond. As a…

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 17d

What would encourage today's rich to found libraries? BBC News - The unknown Manchester lady who funded a Hogwarts-style library

The unknown Manchester lady who funded a Hogwarts-style library

How Cuban-born Enriqueta Rylands spent more than £100m to set up the John Rylands Library.

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