Jessica Gardner
@jessicagardner.bsky.social
University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books.
Where it all began.
What a pleasure to be back @universityofleeds.bsky.social taking part in interviews at the Brotherton Library with @masudk.com and remembering my student days at the Faculty of English.
What a pleasure to be back @universityofleeds.bsky.social taking part in interviews at the Brotherton Library with @masudk.com and remembering my student days at the Faculty of English.
April 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Where it all began.
What a pleasure to be back @universityofleeds.bsky.social taking part in interviews at the Brotherton Library with @masudk.com and remembering my student days at the Faculty of English.
What a pleasure to be back @universityofleeds.bsky.social taking part in interviews at the Brotherton Library with @masudk.com and remembering my student days at the Faculty of English.
Beautiful along the commons in the frost this morning with brave rowers already out, oars pulling hard through the Cam and the cold.
January 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Beautiful along the commons in the frost this morning with brave rowers already out, oars pulling hard through the Cam and the cold.
Awesome dinosaurs in the joyous evolution-themed garden at the Natural History Museum. Can we have one @theul.bsky.social please?
January 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Awesome dinosaurs in the joyous evolution-themed garden at the Natural History Museum. Can we have one @theul.bsky.social please?
Glorious sunrise and frost on the way for a meeting at the Natural History Museum. Expect awesome photos of dinosaurs later.
January 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Glorious sunrise and frost on the way for a meeting at the Natural History Museum. Expect awesome photos of dinosaurs later.
Joyous beautiful morning sunlight rising over King’s College Chapel on this morning’s winter walk-to-work @theul.bsky.social.
January 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Joyous beautiful morning sunlight rising over King’s College Chapel on this morning’s winter walk-to-work @theul.bsky.social.
January 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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December 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM
So many wonderful items on display in the British Library’s major exhibition celebrating the lives and works of ‘Medieval Women’. Enjoy this beautiful page showing author Christine de Pisan writing her book (1434).
December 5, 2024 at 1:37 PM
So many wonderful items on display in the British Library’s major exhibition celebrating the lives and works of ‘Medieval Women’. Enjoy this beautiful page showing author Christine de Pisan writing her book (1434).
Afternoon off home-from-home in Oxford catching up with @davidprosser.bsky.social of @rluk.bsky.social and an old old library friend now at Harris-Manchester College (hence the Christmas pic). Happily, there are a lot of lovely bookish people in my life.
December 2, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Afternoon off home-from-home in Oxford catching up with @davidprosser.bsky.social of @rluk.bsky.social and an old old library friend now at Harris-Manchester College (hence the Christmas pic). Happily, there are a lot of lovely bookish people in my life.
Winter Lights in Cambridge University Botanical Garden last night.
An absolute wonderland, mixing light show sounds and science. Joyful.
Book here: www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-bo...
An absolute wonderland, mixing light show sounds and science. Joyful.
Book here: www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-bo...
November 29, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Winter Lights in Cambridge University Botanical Garden last night.
An absolute wonderland, mixing light show sounds and science. Joyful.
Book here: www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-bo...
An absolute wonderland, mixing light show sounds and science. Joyful.
Book here: www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-bo...
The wondrous Lindisfarne Gospels, around 700 AD, in the British Library Treasures Gallery. Here in London for trustee meeting of Friends of the Nation’s Libraries @thefnl.bsky.social. But who can resist a little manuscript gazing alongside?
November 26, 2024 at 1:31 PM
The wondrous Lindisfarne Gospels, around 700 AD, in the British Library Treasures Gallery. Here in London for trustee meeting of Friends of the Nation’s Libraries @thefnl.bsky.social. But who can resist a little manuscript gazing alongside?
I wish you could hear this: the wind is rising and the autumn leaves are circling and crackling round the Library tower @theul.bsky.social. Loud and wonderful enough to pull me out of my computer screen to enjoy.
November 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I wish you could hear this: the wind is rising and the autumn leaves are circling and crackling round the Library tower @theul.bsky.social. Loud and wonderful enough to pull me out of my computer screen to enjoy.
Any excuse to go up the Cambridge University Library tower @theul.bsky.social to see the accumulation of popular culture books acquired through Legal Deposit over the twentieth-century.
Decades of publishing history and book art through the original book jackets at the UL.
Decades of publishing history and book art through the original book jackets at the UL.
November 18, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Any excuse to go up the Cambridge University Library tower @theul.bsky.social to see the accumulation of popular culture books acquired through Legal Deposit over the twentieth-century.
Decades of publishing history and book art through the original book jackets at the UL.
Decades of publishing history and book art through the original book jackets at the UL.
Moonlit walk in Suffolk. The season for ghost stories is upon us.
November 17, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Moonlit walk in Suffolk. The season for ghost stories is upon us.
Hmm what do librarians do on a day off??
November 16, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Hmm what do librarians do on a day off??
Fabulous line up today to welcome Martha Whitehead, Dean of Libraries at Harvard, to Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social.
Here with @lauragreenfield.bsky.social, @camlibresearch.bsky.social and Chris Burgess, talking all things research libraries and public engagement.
Here with @lauragreenfield.bsky.social, @camlibresearch.bsky.social and Chris Burgess, talking all things research libraries and public engagement.
November 15, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Fabulous line up today to welcome Martha Whitehead, Dean of Libraries at Harvard, to Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social.
Here with @lauragreenfield.bsky.social, @camlibresearch.bsky.social and Chris Burgess, talking all things research libraries and public engagement.
Here with @lauragreenfield.bsky.social, @camlibresearch.bsky.social and Chris Burgess, talking all things research libraries and public engagement.
An old one, but a good one. The morning walk to work at Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social.
November 14, 2024 at 8:41 AM
An old one, but a good one. The morning walk to work at Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social.
Small steps into a new blue space.
November 13, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Small steps into a new blue space.