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Stéise
@booksparrow.bsky.social
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Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords. Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚 Likes heritage, social history & folk 🏳️‍🌈 unapologetically femme
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · Dec 5
Mood:
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Cartoon of a fox in a purple dress with a bow on its head. It is stood at a library check out desk and has a book and date stamp in front of it. It is leaning back and looks to be screaming. The word librarian hovers next to it.
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 5d
Well played Manchester libraries 👏
(For sale in central library if anyone wants one)
#Skybrarian
#LibrarySky #Library📚
Photo of a white T-shirt on a hanger. This is part of a display in the shop in Manchester library. The design of the T-shirt features the stamp page of a public library book complete with an assortment of date stamps. This is in black Ink.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d
The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a hare against a pink background with sun and stars
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 2d
#Monday #GirlMoss #GirlBoss.
🎨 @awokenshit on insta.
Image of a graphic that looks like a woodcut or Lino print. flat brown colour against a buff background. The text reads “no more girl bossing, I want to girl rest. Girl sleep. Girl lay down on the forest floor and be absorbed by nature. I want to girl moss.” The image depicted is a simplifying line depiction of a long haired women lying down asleep.
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Joezer the Joezerian @joeblivion.bsky.social · 16h
Y'all need to see this Bilbo and Gandalf from the Portuguese version of The Hobbit. Illustrated by António Quadros
A whimsical and charming illustration of Bilbo meeting Gandalf outside of Bag End
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 14h
‘Check It Out’
‘Overdue Records’
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 1d
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 2d
#Monday #GirlMoss #GirlBoss.
🎨 @awokenshit on insta.
Image of a graphic that looks like a woodcut or Lino print. flat brown colour against a buff background. The text reads “no more girl bossing, I want to girl rest. Girl sleep. Girl lay down on the forest floor and be absorbed by nature. I want to girl moss.” The image depicted is a simplifying line depiction of a long haired women lying down asleep.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 8d
Teenage life, above Shaw, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.
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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 2d
Archives in the news!

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Great coverage on the project Leontine and @camdiglib.bsky.social

#archives #digipres
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
www.bbc.com
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 3d
Hmm. Archive collection? But then you wouldn’t date stamp it?? Hmm unless it’s part of a reading room collection??
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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 3d
And this is how #folklore starts...

#wolfenoot

#custom #tradition #DogsOfBlueSky
Image of a social media post by Jax Goss which reads: 'My son has invented a holiday called Wolfenoot. It is when the Spirit of the Wolf brings and hides small gifts around the house for everyone. People who have, have had, or are kind to dogs get better gifts than anyone else. You eat roast meat (because wolves eat meat) and cake decorated like a full moon. A holiday to the spirit of wolves that celebrates people who are kind to dogs? I can 100% get behind this. So we will celebrating Wolfenoot. It's on the 23rd November if anyone else is moved to celebrate it (Wink emoji). (If you do, send me pics, so I can show my kid his idea spread. (Heart emoji)). ETA:Woah, this seems to be resonating and taking off. Please use #wolfenoot if you post pics or anything so he can see how it spreads. (Smile emoji) He's already excited that other people want to do it. (Heart emoji)
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 3d
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 3d
May as well start a thread…. #HotChocolate in Hebden Bridge…
Photo of a table with a hot chocolate with whipped cream, in grey stoneware mug and saucer, next to a plate with a triangular shaped chocolate brownie.
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 3d
I need to go to Lidl asap!
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 3d
Perhaps not enough chocolate content to be called chocolate?
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 3d
Hmm. Archive collection? But then you wouldn’t date stamp it?? Hmm unless it’s part of a reading room collection??
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 5d
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 4d
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 5d
The have it on a tote bag too. And also in black with white text.
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 5d
Oh deer god, what a timely post. I best go check on my dad 🌳trimming down some 12foot monstrosities 🌲
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 5d
‘The librarians’ is on iPlayer… this is not a drill!!! 📺📚🎉
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LJMU Open Research Team @ljmuresearch.bsky.social · 5d
Looking forward to watching @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social which was on BBC's Storyville last night: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... For our UK followers (most of you!) Plenty of time to watch via BBC iplayer or via our Box of Broadcasts subscription. Free people read freely. 📚 💪
Storyville - The Librarians
A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.
www.bbc.co.uk
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5d
Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)

I love its expression.
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 5d
Well played Manchester libraries 👏
(For sale in central library if anyone wants one)
#Skybrarian
#LibrarySky #Library📚
Photo of a white T-shirt on a hanger. This is part of a display in the shop in Manchester library. The design of the T-shirt features the stamp page of a public library book complete with an assortment of date stamps. This is in black Ink.
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 6d
A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 6d
Autumn is well and truly here:
Photo showing if you looking down to the canal. There is a path covered with fallen leaves to the left red to stools can be seen in the distance canal sits though to the left and the bushes are bare of leaves.
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