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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 19h

Dr Carla Hayden, the first woman, and first African-American, to serve as Librarian of Congress in Washington today received a Presidential Citation from our President, @suelacey-bryant.bsky at the #CILIP AGM. Watch her acceptance speech: www.cilip.org.uk/page/carlaha...

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 20h

Wonderful to see Carla Hayden being awarded a Presidential citation at today’s @cilip.bsky.social AGM. Couldn’t be more deserved or appropriate.

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 6d

#CILIP members - looking for a CPD opportunity? CILIP's International Library & Information Group @cilip-ilig.bsky.social seeks an editor for its journal, Focus. It has a proud 50+ year history highlighting global issues in the library sector. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/editor-...

Editor of CILIP ILIG Focus journal, UK Wide

Call for expressions of interest for the role of Editor of CILIP ILIG Focus journal CILIP International Library and Information Group (ILIG) seeks an editor for its journal Focus on International Libr...

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CILIP ILIG @cilip-ilig.bsky.social · 6d

Do get in touch with us if you'd be interested in editing Focus - our CILIP International Library & Information Group journal 👇

CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 6d

#CILIP members - looking for a CPD opportunity? CILIP's International Library & Information Group @cilip-ilig.bsky.social seeks an editor for its journal, Focus. It has a proud 50+ year history highlighting global issues in the library sector. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/editor-...

Editor of CILIP ILIG Focus journal, UK Wide

Call for expressions of interest for the role of Editor of CILIP ILIG Focus journal CILIP International Library and Information Group (ILIG) seeks an editor for its journal Focus on International Libr...

informationprofessionaljobs.com

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2015/j...

Forgotten heroes of the kindertransports | Letters

Letters: I certainly owe my life to Chadwick. He was persuaded to bring my mother, aged 14, with him when he first returned from Prague

www.theguardian.com

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 2d

Nicholas Winton never claimed to work alone. He said of Chadwick “Chadwick did the more difficult and dangerous work after the Nazis invaded… he deserves all praise". Ever heard of him?

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 2d

He and Doreen Warriner were both long dead when Nicholas Winton was recognised, but they worked together to save those children.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing the story about Tommy Flowers this weekend, I give you my favourite forgotten hero. Trevor Chadwick did the dangerous work in Prague of selecting children for the Kindertransport and getting them on the trains, while Winton arranged homes for them in the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_...

Trevor Chadwick - Wikipedia

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d

I need a Tommy Flowers Was Robbed t-shirt. Great piece!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3d

This is good! I finally got to the big Tesco and have gluten free orzo, and it’s excellent.

A box of Tesco’s gluten free finest traditional bronze die orzo.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3d

Printing allergy info in light blue on black should be illegal.

A label for Green & Blacks chocolate, with almost illegible ingredients.

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 5d

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

www.rawstory.com/wyoming-libr...

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 5d

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 bigger forces at work?”

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 bi...

www.theguardian.com

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 7d

I have a new TV remote control. To stop a programme you press the back button. To delete a recording you press the record button. The old remote control had stop and delete buttons. I had to search online to find this out. I think this is called enshittification.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 8d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 9d

The title is Trieste. Well worth reading.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 9d

Those who choose not to see. She is writing about the Holocaust.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 9d

are the majority.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 9d

because they do nothing but stand and watch what is going on around them as if they don’t see a thing, as if nothing is happening, as if there is nothing going on. They live according to the dictates of everyone’s laws, and when the wars end this serves them well. There are many bystanders. They

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 9d

Home from my holiday in Trieste and Istria, but only half way through Daša Drndic’s Trieste. A tough but necessary read. It seems to be essentially about being a bystander in terrible times. She says this: For those on the sidelines there is no telling what they are thinking, whose side they are on,

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 10d

Heading home from Trieste and Rovinj. Trieste is in Italy but feels Central European; Rovinj looks and speaks Italian, but is in Croatia. My holiday reading for the history, when I can bear it, is Trieste by Daša Drndić. A necessary and brilliant counter to all the tourist sites and gelato.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 11d

Just a random, anonymous, woman, apparently.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 11d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 12d

'Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy': 'On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy' www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy

Colleen Shogan made history when she became the first woman to serve as Archivist of the United States in 2023. In February, President Trump fired her with no reason given. On Constitution Day,…

www.pbs.org

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 14d

Currently following in the footsteps of James Joyce. Did he like his sweets?

A shop sign for the Candy Bar Joyce, listing marshmallows, chocolates, giant and big candy, gummy and lollipops.

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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 14d

The map on my phone has gone rogue. I am looking for the nearest bus station. According to my phone, it is in Nuneaton. I am not in Nuneaton. In fact I have never been to Nuneaton. I am here. Is there an amphitheater in Nuneaton?

An ancient, and well preserved, Roman amphitheater.

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