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Alison Harding
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Alison Harding @alisonharding.bsky.social · Jun 21
She was a magnificent cat.

The last but one photo taken of Miss Ronnie, who passed away last Saturday.

Her excellent headbutts, and judgemental hard stares are much missed. I am devastated.

#Caturday
Tuxedo cat, with a red collar, pondering life in a sunny garden.
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britishlibrary.bsky.social
Ready to take your library career to the next level?

Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.

Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
A woman and a man are sat at reading desks with the woman in the foreground. A book is propped open before her.
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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bho.bsky.social
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions

nation.cymru/news/new-pro...

#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
nation.cymru
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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uwtsdlib.bsky.social
📣Happening Thursday
📜Reverend Hugh Price Hughes Special Collections talk
📅27th November 2025
⏰15:30 - 17:00
📍Special Collections Reading Room Lampeter Library and Online

To attend please email [email protected] for a seat in Lampeter or to join online

#specialcollections

@uwtsd.bsky.social
Image is a photograph of Lord griffiths of Burry Port. He has greying hair and is smiling. He is wearing a grey striped suit, a blue and white checked sirt and a blue, navy and grey striped tie
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) US street photographer whose work was discovered after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people of Chicago & New York #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a line of women in dresses coats and hats in a street standing along a concrete wall with a diagonal shadow
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Christmas Door Wreath Making Day.

#Christmas
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Arthur and I had our first fight this morning; he didn’t want to go to the vet and I said he had too - he wasn’t easily persuaded.

#Caturday
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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uwtsdlib.bsky.social
📅Mark your calendars! From Dec 1st, we’re unwrapping a new historic holiday image each day from our Special Collections. 🎄 Discover the stories behind the sparkle—scan the QR codes around campus or bookmark this link to join in!
tuerchen.app/iVpnFm6YLBkk...

#UWTSDlib #DigitalAdvent
The image features an ornate background with a scenic painting depicting a winter landscape, including snow-covered fields and a small, distant cabin nestled within a grove of trees. In the foreground, there are clusters of snowdrops and other flowers sprouting from the ground, set against a muted sky. Overlaid on this image is a translucent teal rectangle with white text centered upon it. In the upper left corner is the logo of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, featuring a heraldic shield with Welsh text above and English text below. In the upper right corner is another logo, "LLYFRAUaRHAGOR BOOKS&Beyond," with a red Santa hat adorning the top right corner.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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uwtsdlib.bsky.social
On 16 December, Jane Austen fans celebrate her birthday.

This year marks 250 years since her birth.

To honor the occasion, University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Roderic Bowen Library and Archives will showcase Austen treasures from its Special Collections.
www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/uwtsds-...
The image shows an open book with yellowed pages, focusing on the inside cover and the first page. The page features hand-written text in brown ink. The handwriting is cursive and appears aged. In the top right corner, there are smaller numerical and alphabetic characters written in pencil. The edge of another page is visible on the right, slightly discolored, suggesting age.
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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1dgrn.bsky.social
RIP to his “loaf-haired secretary”, and the addressee of this achingly beautiful late poem
Philip Larkin’s “We Met At the End of the Party”
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
my library's policy.

Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.

The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Screenshot: ACCESS TO PATRON INFORMATION Any person is entitled to view their own library account information in person with positive identification in our libraries. The records of minors with their own cards are also considered to be private to those persons.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
alisonharding.bsky.social
One of the highlights of my year was being a panel member for the #SCONUL Library Design Awards, working with wonderful colleagues, and being inspired by some amazing spaces and services.
pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 9d
Congratulations to @lancasteruni.bsky.social Library for winning the SCONUL library design award for their library extension and to London South Bank University Library for winning the service design award for their student portal and app. #SCONUL conference
Lancaster university library spaces London South Bank University MyLSBU student app
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
alisonharding.bsky.social
Lovely to be back at an in person #SCONUL event, and one with an excellent menu of speakers and panel sessions.
pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 9d
Looking forward to the SCONUL conference today on Library transformation www.sconul.ac.uk/events/sconu... where I'll be presenting about the @jisc.bsky.social Digital transformation library lens www.jisc.ac.uk/taking-digit...
SCONUL | Society of College, National and University Libraries
www.sconul.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
alisonharding.bsky.social
The traffic was constant.

📍Birmingham.
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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All said lawmakers are men btw.

#Gilead
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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uwtsdlib.bsky.social
90 years ago, George Thompson was appointed Principal of the Technical College. He served until 1962, making him the longest-serving Principal of the college, and led the college through defining moments including World War II.

#Archives #History #UWTSDlib

@uwtsd.bsky.social
The image is a black-and-white photograph of a man seated at a desk. He is wearing a suit with a tie and glasses with round frames. The man is positioned slightly off-center to the left, facing the camera with a neutral expression. His hands are clasped together on the desk where several papers and a pen are visible. In the background, there is a fireplace and some framed items on the wall. The environment appears to be an office or study.
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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uwtsdlib.bsky.social
🌲12 days of Green Christmas🌲

From 19th to 30th November join us as we share our 12 days of Green Christmas with you

From how to decorate your garden to benefit the wildlife to cutting down on food waste we have tips and treats for you!

#uwtsdlib #GreenLibraries #GreenChristmas

@uwtsd.bsky.social
The image depicts a festive, stylized Christmas tree made of stacked books in various colors including blue, green, red, and orange, with white pages. At the top of the book stack is a yellow star. Each book is secured with a decorative bow in red, orange, or green. The background is a teal color. In the upper left corner, there is an arrangement of holly leaves and red berries, with star-like decorations. To the top right, a logo is present featuring a small crest, side-by-side text in Welsh and English, and a secondary line beneath stating "Trinity Saint David." At the bottom left, an open book graphic is topped with a Santa hat, accompanied by a bilingual label for "Books & Beyond." Near the book tree, in yellow text, the words "12 diwrnod o Nadolig Gwyrdd" and "12 days of Green Christmas" are written.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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uwtsdlib.bsky.social
📣HAPPENING TODAY!
🎨Illustrators of Wales
⏰Drop in display, 10 am to 12 pm
⏰Talk and display, 2 pm to 4 pm (Booking essential via
[email protected])
📍UWTSD Lampeter Library

#uwtsdlib #specialcollections

@uwtsd.bsky.social
The image depicts a historical scene with several individuals on horseback traveling through a mountainous landscape. In the foreground, a man in a red coat sits on a rock, holding a riding crop. Behind him, five people are on horseback, moving from right to left. The central rider is wearing a green coat and raises a riding crop in the air, while another rider in a blue coat follows close behind. Two women in the group are wearing dresses, and one rider is wearing a top hat. The background features towering, misty mountains and a few more figures on horseback in the distance.
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This evening in Swansea.

#Swansea
Sunset over the sail bridge.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Today in Swansea.

#Swansea
The sun is shining and the sky is blue and the water is calm.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
lol lol lol lol
The US v Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle The Guardian view Columnists Letters Opinion videos Cartoo Opinion The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction Editorial David Szalay's Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men Fri 14 Nov 2025 13.25 EST
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A fine bridge.

📍Clifton, Bristol.
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A library door with the prettiest font.

📍Bristol
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The Choir.

📍Bristol Cathedral.

#ChoirStalls
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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A rather lovely hotch potch of a stained glass window.

📍Bristol Cathedral
Small stained glass window.
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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On this day in 1897 Nye Bevan, the founder of our NHS, was born in South Wales.

Today let's remind ourselves of the struggle to create our NHS and reinvigorate our determination to defend it 👏
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM