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Alexander Bell
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Art Librarian at University for the Creative Arts 🎨

Interests in: 🔍 Visual literacy | 🖌️ Practice research | 👁️ Slow looking | 👗 Fashion, colour & material collections | 🗞️ Zines & indie publishing
📣 We're hiring! Join our expert art library team at the University for the Creative Arts 🎨📚 We're looking for a Part-Time Library Assistant to support fashion and creative business students at our Epsom campus in Surrey. 👉 Apply here: jobs.ucreative.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#LISjobs #libraryjobs #arlis
Job Opportunity at University for the Creative Arts: Library Assistant
The University Library Assistant supports the daily operations of the University Library by assisting students and staff in accessing resources, managing library materials and providing excellent cust...
jobs.ucreative.ac.uk
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer

"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Excited to take part in the Creative Education Conference 2025! I’ll be delivering a workshop with my colleague Nick Canty on zine-making, using zine collections and hands-on making to engage students in reflective and constructivist learning 🗞️✂️✍️🎨 creativeeducation.uca.ac.uk/the-creative...
The Creative Education Conference | University for the Creative Arts
creativeeducation.uca.ac.uk
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Booking is now open for the ARLIS UK & Ireland 2025 Conference!

Join us at Limerick School of Art and Design, 1-3 July, for 'Stacks, Studio and Beyond: Artists and the Art Library'

Tickets and more info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arlis-uk-i....
April 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🎨📚✨ Stacks, Studio & Beyond: Artists & the Art Library 🎨📚✨

The annual ARLIS UK & Ireland conference will take place at Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon, 1-3 July 2025 #ARLIS2025
March 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Thinking about a career in #ArtLibraries?

Join the ARLIS Professional Development Committee for 'Taking the Plunge', an online event exploring experiences in #ArtLibrarianship.

Find more info & reserve your free place at: www.tickettailor.com/events/arlis...

#LibraryCareers #Librarianship
Reserve a place – Taking the Plunge: Experiences in Art Librarianship and Beyond – Zoom
The Professional Development Committee of ARLIS/UK & Ireland: the Art Libraries Society are pleased to announce our next e...
www.tickettailor.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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🚀 Thinking about a career in art librarianship? Join us for Taking the Plunge on 3rd March 2025 (1:30 - 3:30 PM GMT, online & free!)

📚 Career insights
📑 Job application tips
📢 Social media tricks

🔗 Book now: buytickets.at/arlisukirela...

#LibraryCareers @arlis-uk.bsky.social
Reserve a place – Taking the Plunge: Experiences in Art Librarianship and Beyond – Zoom
The Professional Development Committee of ARLIS/UK & Ireland: the Art Libraries Society are pleased to announce our next e...
buytickets.at
February 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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To be understood, materials need to be experienced. ‘The samples are meant to be touched, hefted, inspected, and compared’, urges the website for Princeton University’s architecture and engineering materials collection, which opened in 2017. worksinprogress.co/issue/librar...
Libraries of matter - Works in Progress
Libraries contain books, yes. But they also contain latex rubber, carbon fiber fabrics, and graphene aerogel. And in some materials libraries you can cut, cast, drill, sand, scrape, and sculpt too.
worksinprogress.co
January 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Webinar: Colour me Pink! Being inspired by the Zandra Rhodes’ Colourful Heritage Project 🩷👚📕 …Join UCA Library for a webinar introducing the Zandra Rhodes’ Colourful Heritage project - showcasing fashion resources freely available for educational use. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b24dc2...
January 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The wonderful folks at @PublicDoimainRev (which is one of my favorite places on the Internet) have just launched a magnificent public domain image database, years in the making:
Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
pdimagearchive.org
January 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Hi #library and #librarian BlueSky! I’m looking to connect with fellow art librarians / academic librarians / HE library workers 👋📚🎨 Are there any starter kits or ways to find peers to follow? ☺️
November 20, 2024 at 9:49 PM