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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Apr 16
We are the @dfg.de -funded Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst) Anglo-American Culture #FIDAAC at SUB Göttingen & Branch Library North American Studies at University Library, FU Berlin.
Follow us for publications from all anglophone cultures & news for the scientific community!
libraryaac.bsky.social
Yesterday's keynote at #BritCult2025 #conference was really impactful, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social highlighting the queer & trans elements in #Medieval & #EarlyModern Christian iconography & texts, from Genesis to Jesus Christ & the Last Judgment

#TransStudies #QueerStudies #Theology #ArtHistory
Colby Gordon in front of his presentation, title Nonsecular Colby Gordon in front of his presentation showing 2 Bible illustrations with Eve emerging from Adam's body's side
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#Frankenstein #ichbinhanna (look at this reposted thread for more #ichbinvictor gallows humour)
theresaheyd.bsky.social Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 4d
Idee für die nächste Verfilmung: Victor Frankenstein, ein wissenshungriger early career researcher, forscht an der Universität Ingolstadt, doch das WissZeitVG zwingt ihn, sein Projekt in die Schweiz und bis nach schottland mitzunehmen. Die Folgen für seine Karriere sind verheerend.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Check these slides if you are interested in comic collections & #ComicsStudies / #ComicStudies

Also hooray for #Fachinformationsdienste cooperations! We enjoyed our collab with our colleagues @fidromanistik.bsky.social 🫶

#comics #graphicnovels #LibSky #LibrarianSky #Librarians #FIDAAC
fidromanistik.bsky.social FID Romanistik @fidromanistik.bsky.social · 4d
Mit dem @libraryaac.bsky.social haben wir in einer FID-Coffee-Lecture " #Comicsammlungen in FIDs" vorgestellt. Für die Romanistik: Forschungsinteresse & Publikationen, FID-Sammelprofil, Erwerbungswege, Erschließungspraxis & Recherche, Öff.-Arbeit & Vernetzung wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/webis/index....
Gliederung Comicsammlungen in FIDs Comicsammlungen in FIDs: Recherche Romanistik Comicsammlungen in FIDs: Comic-Literatur in der Romanistik
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
Some pretty Bamberg sights on the first day of the #BritCult2025 conference…

@susannegruss.bsky.social @jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Photograph of a tree in front of some rooftops and a cloudy sunset sky Photograph from a bridge onto a bank of south German houses. Photograph of a bridge with locks on the bannister with a river and houses in the background. Photograph of a church with a white sandstone front.
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
This year's #BritCult was off to a great start today with the 1st joint keynote by @femsista.bsky.social & @greta-olson.org on current questions & issues of #Feminism - incl how to avoid getting sucked into anti-feminists' toxic discourses 🧛🦇

#BritCult25 #BritCult2025 #GenderStudies
Elisabeth Lechner & Greta Olson in front of their PowerPoint slides on the topic of Feminism Elisabeth Lechner & Greta Olson in front of their PowerPoint slides, showcasing the books mentioned in their talk
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
At #BritCult2025 #conference in Bamberg: impressive 🌈🏳️‍🌈 -coloured signs guided us to the university rooms, where the Postgraduate Forum took place.
#BritCult25 #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies
A rainbow coloured arrow reads BritCult 25 A rainbow coloured square guiding us to the entrance to, as it reads, BritCult 25
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Keeping our fingers crossed 🤞🤞
susannegruss.bsky.social Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 5d
It's cold, there is a tiny bit of snow. Almost 100 conference speakers and participants are on their way to Bamberg today, most of them by train. It's fortunate that DB has a long history of dealing really well with the first snow of the year, right? RIGHT??? #britcult2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Green with envy 🌵, because our collection now houses this new 2025 "Cambridge Handbook of Literature & Plants"? No reason! Order the book, ed. by @bonnielj.bsky.social today from our library and explore the essays on #LiteraryStudies & #Ecocriticism & #EnvironmentalHumanities & #CulturalStudies
Holding the Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants in front of a wall overgrown with large green leaves
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
We are already excited for the conference!!
susannegruss.bsky.social Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 26d
Currently finishing a paper and co-ordinating the details of conference. Stressful, but: almost 100 people registered for our feminist/gender studies conference in late November, & that makes me VERY happy (also slightly panicked, because the room might be too small, but mostly happy). #Britcult2025
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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bldigischol.bsky.social
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library

https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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laicdgroup.bsky.social
📢 Registration now open for our next event: Neurodiversity in Libraries featuring speakers Jo @jofitz.bsky.social & Andrew @playbrarian.uk, co-chairs of @nlisn.bsky.social and Elaine Chapman from TU Dublin

📅 Tuesday, December 9, 6:30pm (AGM 8pm)
📍 Online
🎟️ Free

🔗 www.eventbrite.ie/e/neurodiver...
Neurodiversity in libraries, a free event from the Library Association of Ireland Career Development Group. The event will take place online via Zoom on Tuesday, December 9th at 6:30pm with the group's annual general meeting (AGM) following at 8pm.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Thank you for the link to the project's website! So great that they share some glimpses inside the book.
sadpphicstanza.bsky.social Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · 10d
this looks fucking fascinating !
erasingfrankenstein.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Enthralled by the new #Frankenstein film?
Read on in this #erasurepoetry book, "Erasing Frankenstein", edited by Elizabeth Effinger, on how to use #MaryShelley 's novel to give a voice to inmates via prison education programmes - a remarkable #PublicHumanities work of collaborative art

#poetry
Holdin the book "Erasing Frankenstein" by editor Elizabeth Effinger in front of a stack of transparent and yellow plastic library baskets, the yellow and white mirroring the cover design of the book
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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pjrobichaud.bsky.social
‘Pan is not dead ... in every wood, if you go with a spirit properly prepared, you shall hear the note of his pipe.’

Robert Louis Stevenson was born #OTD in 1850.

🎨John Singer Sargent
RLS smoking in his chair.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Happy 175th birthday to #RobertLouisStevenson!

#RLStevenson #ScottishLiterature #BOTD
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 12d
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

✒️ #RobertLouisStevenson, Scottish author, was #BOTD 13 November 1850. #Literature
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#CfP #CallforPapers for a panel on Scots Song & its Transcontinental Connections (Silk Road) for Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Nanjing, China.

deadline 6 Jan, 2026 -details see www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

#ScottishLiterature #ScottishStudies

seen via @bsecs.bsky.social
Call for papers for a panel: Scots Song and its Transcontinental Connections - BSECS
The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027 and its theme focuses on “Scotland Along the New Silk Road”. The Congre...
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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nikkihessell.bsky.social
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.

I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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bsecs.bsky.social
Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other

#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies
Holding the book "The Other-Conscious Ethics of Innovative Black Poetry" by Grant Matthew Jenkins in front of an autumnal fern plant
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
And the winner of this year's #BookerPrize is ... #DavidSzalay 's "Flesh"!
Here it is, in the #flesh on our shelves - getting ready to be checked out by you soon. Pre-order it by email in our online library catalogue: s.gwdg.de/9c3D3t

#BookerPrize2025 @thebookerprizes.com #EnglishLiterature
David Szalay's book "Flesh" on a shelf filled with new books
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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textundblog.bsky.social
Der 2. Tag auf dem Treffen der AG FID an der UB Marburg beginnt. #Fachinformationsdienste
Schloss in Marburg
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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thebookerprizes.com
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’

We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Today we are at the AG FID meetup in Marburg! This time with a new, more interactive workshop-based approach 💪

We are very impressed by the architecture of Marburg University Library!

#FID #Fachinformationsdienste
A view into the atrium The staircase in the library, with golden decor at the walls A view into the atrium from above
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
🎉🎉🎉 Hooray!! *unfolds speech* Thank you for this honour! We could never have done it without you, our friends, followers, commenters & friendly re-sharers! 🫶
stabihh.bsky.social Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · 16d
Das Ranking der 21 Fachinformationsdienste #FID auf #Bluesky nach Followern (weitere Kennzahlen: "Folgt" + "Posts"):

Die drei "erfolgreichsten":
1. @libraryaac.bsky.social (2062)
2. @historicumnet.bsky.social (1269)
3. @ixtheo.bsky.social (982)

Alle FIDs im Starter-Pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Nr. FID Follower Folgt Posts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Library of Anglo-American Culture & History 2062 660 786 2 FID Geschichtswissenschaft 1269 794 113 3 IxTheo 982 1239 136 4 Jüdische Studien 932 270 888 5 FID intRecht 559 772 695 6 arthistoricum.net 497 100 59 7 Pollux - Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Polit.. 424 582 68 8 FID Romanistik 414 320 536 9 RelBib 363 594 23 10 Propylaeum 353 87 25 11 Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Philosophie 315 144 9 12 FID Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa 315 264 1873 13 MENALIB 313 490 328 14 FID Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie | EVIFA 169 206 47 15 FID BBI 156 83 8 16 musiconn – Fachinformationsdienst Musikwiss.. 156 55 68 17 SocioHub (FID Soziologie) 146 83 6 18 FID4SA 137 198 36 19 FID Media 125 36 22 20 FID Benelux / Low Countries Studies 115 260 766 21 FID GEO Fachinformationsdienst Geowissensch.. 108 42 2
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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infodocket.bsky.social
ACRL Releases #AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers www.infodocket.com/2025/10/17/a... #libraries @ala-acrl.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM