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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Pragmatic Principles It's been a tough old year. Ditching out of 7 R&P deals at once naturally brings with it a whole host of stressful situations to navigate. Through all of this, an absolutely excellent piece of work (that I am very proud we achieved) underpinned a huge amount of our strategic thinking and decision making. Prior to any budget cuts, the decision had already been made that we in the Library should work with external colleagues to co-create a…

A nice bit of Friday reading

Developing our Collections Principles. I'm proud of this piece of work and really happy we did it

Read all about it...

#books #ebooks #libraries #collectionsprinciples

EBA v DDA – Which is best? I posted on Linkedin a while ago about my overall views on EBA schemes. particularly in relation to DDA (or PDA) alternatives. I waffled on and ran out of words, happily now that I've set this blog up that is no longer an issues. So here is a post on all things EBA and DDA, happy reading. What is an EBA?

EBA v DDA – Which is best?

I posted on Linkedin a while ago about my overall views on EBA schemes. particularly in relation to DDA (or PDA) alternatives. I waffled on and ran out of words, happily now that I've set this blog up that is no longer an issues. So here is a post on all things EBA and…

Henry Highland Garnet: His Most Famous Speech — BLACK and Education Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties. Now is the day and the hour. Let every slave throughout the land do this, and the days of slavery are numbered. You…

From ‘A call to rebellion’:

“Let your motto be resistance! resistance! resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance.”

#life #liberty #freedom #KnowledgeIsPower #history

Here is the full speech by Henry Highland Garnet:

blackandeducation.org/stories/2021...

This is a thing of such beauty, download the telescores app if you are a child of the 80s/90s who just wants ceefax back 🤣
#UTB

The Differential Model - A gold standard acquisitions workflow

Everyone has an imaginary ideal acquisitions workflow, right...right?

Find out more about this on my blog here...

Ranking E-Book Licenses: A Tier List for Preference-Based Decisions We all know that e-book licenses can be intentionally complex and confusing. The difficulty often lies in choosing between licenses that seem similar on the surface. For that reason, understanding …

First entry of a brand new blog to cover all things Librarianish, feel free to share and enjoy 👍

For those who like/need #Library themed posts

A ranked overview of standard e-book licenses... librarianth.home.blog/2025/09/16/r...

#ebooks #books #libraries #etextbooks #textbooks

Welcome to #Edinburgh
(pic taken from the excellent #EdinburghZoo)

Epic day out at #EdinburghZoo yesterday, well worth a trip

The Museum of Magic, Fortune Telling & Witchcraft in Edinburgh (brought to you by TK Maxx)

Penguins are my spirit animal. Specifically, this Penguin

Enjoyable visit to the excellent Rosslyn Chapel today. Didn't see the Holy Grail, suspect it was in a cupboard somewhere

FYI, I pressed almost instantly

FYI, I pressed almost instantly

Convinced that only a twisted & terrible mind WOULDN'T press the button...would you press?

Brilliant Daniel Kitson show at the Edinburgh Fringe today, couldn't stop laughing 🤣

Anyone in North Berwick, get yourself to the Lobster Shack, your belly will thank you

This is a Lobster & Crab Roll, Crispy Cajun Prawn Flatbread, and some fecking magnificent chips 😎

Sunny North Berwick, good start to the hols ☀️

Holidays 😎☀️🍦

The government could make an absolute fortune for the country by fining biscuit companies that make their packaging too defective to open

"Pull here" my arse, stupid bloody things 🤣

Omfg I thought I'd bottomed out with 70s #totp but now we've got spades out and are digging into Weather Music 🤦

BBC too cheap to spring for Grease footage #totp

"What did you do on Friday night?"

"I don't want to talk about it"

Same, don't know why, can't turn over #totp 🤣

By the mighty power of Rob's turkey teeth...we will win our opener!!! #utb #boro #comeonboro

Top class, epic level, shithousery 👏👏👏

Rupert Lowe seeing a thing and thinking it's a small boat

Every single day

WTF!!! Lucy Bronze played the entire tournament with a fractured tibia!!! 😬😬😬 she's rock hard, whatever she's made of needs bottling

#Lionesses #WEURO2025

Dishing out head starts again. Just means another comeback is needed!

Come on, lasses! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#Lionesses #EngvsSPA #WEURO2025

Arrrrrr ahh gorra budd stumug