NAG Webinar Week:
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek

Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…

I’m thrilled to be able to share with you a project I’ve been working on this year. Intimate Histories, a series of 5 essays I’ve written and recorded about the antidote to ‘Great Man History’ is dropping on BBC Radio 4 (and i player) from the 3rd of Nov at 11:45 each morning.

Fall of the Leaf, 1934
By printmaker Sybil Andrews (Canadian (born England)
Color linocut on Japanese paper #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Thanks Anne - we are looking forward to co-presenting with MUP on the successful collaboration between the University of Manchester Library and Manchester University Press to produce, enhance, and disseminate high-quality book metadata. - nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#metadatamatters #NAGwebinarweek

I am so excited for #NAGwebinarweek 🤩

Two metadata / cataloguing sessions: @emmabooth.bsky.social and Beth Price (@uomlibrary.bsky.social) and @manchesterup.bsky.social on Wed 19th and me on Thursday 20th.

FREE and open to all: nag.org.uk/events/

🙏 to Jennie Hillyard and the Executive Committee🤩

Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is:

Exhibition catalogues for newbies to art collections and/or cataloguing!
Presenters: Amy Staniforth, Yamuna Ravindran & Margaret Robinson.

Tuesday 28th October 13:00-14:00.
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing #metadata #libraries

Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...

Aw, thanks @rothweeee.bsky.social - I had a cracking day with you guys too!

Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is "Linked data, Ontologies & Entity reconciliation" with Fran Frenzel, 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1) on Thurs 16/10/25.

Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #linkeddata #cataloguing #training

The first webinar in our Practical Cataloguing series today!
MDG Chair Will Peaden will present "Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing" at 13:00 (GMT+1)
If you have registered but have not received a link to join the webinar please contact [email protected]
We will do some live posts here.

The latest issue of Catalogue & Index is out. Some really great articles by colleagues - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

🙏 C&I editors Karen Pierce and Fran Frenzel for including my checklist for non-Marc cataloguing - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

#cataloguing #cataloging #metadata

@georgetakei.bsky.social is the 2025 Honorary Chair of #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5–11), joined by youth advocate Iris Mogul. Together they’ll spotlight the harms of censorship.
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/09/legendary-actorauthoractivist-george-takei-named-honorary-chair-banned-books-week-2025

Frida Kahlo, 1937 by fashion photographer Toni Frissell #womensart

The Prado, national art gallery of Spain, founded in 1819, only hosted its first solo exhibition of a female artist's work in 2016, 17thc painter Clara Peeters (her work below), not untypical of many major galleries across the world....
#WomensArtHistory

The 'liber divinorum operum' of St Hildegard of Bingen, c1500, in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library. Hildegard was a C12 abbess, mystic and composer whose work has become remarkably popular in recent years. She was canonised in 2012, and today is her feast.

A detail from: “The White Rose and the Red Rose” the 1902 panel by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

A beautiful print to be enjoyed always: duille.com/whiteroseturin

On this, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, a c1500 woodcut depicting St Bridget of Sweden venerating the crucifixion. Photographed in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library, London.

It was a pleasure to have Prof Karen Snow, Carissa Chew @carissachew.bsky.social, Dr Karen Pierce @darklecat.bsky.social, & Helen Griffiths @helgriff.bsky.social presenting on Cataloguing Ethics as part of a our AGM Event yesterday.
Thank you to all the speakers and attendees (online & in-person).

South London's best-loved bookshop was heaving today. Bought some much-needed books, obviously.

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.

Need a book? Bookseller Crow excellent indie bookshop proprietor Jonathan is gravely ill and they need all the business they can get. booksellercrow.co.uk
They’re on bookshop.org too.

I hate to say it, but has dementia been ruled out? It would be so easy to administer ADHD and Autism tests at the same time all in the one package.

Sending lots of prayers for energy and patience in any case x