Anne Welsh

Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...

Aw, thanks @rothweeee.bsky.social - I had a cracking day with you guys too!

Our next Practical Cataloguing Webinar is "Linked data, Ontologies & Entity reconciliation" with Fran Frenzel, 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1) on Thurs 16/10/25.

Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #linkeddata #cataloguing #training

The first webinar in our Practical Cataloguing series today!
MDG Chair Will Peaden will present "Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing" at 13:00 (GMT+1)
If you have registered but have not received a link to join the webinar please contact events.mdg@cilip.org.uk
We will do some live posts here.

The latest issue of Catalogue & Index is out. Some really great articles by colleagues - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

🙏 C&I editors Karen Pierce and Fran Frenzel for including my checklist for non-Marc cataloguing - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

#cataloguing #cataloging #metadata

George Takei. Photo: Christopher Appoldt

@georgetakei.bsky.social is the 2025 Honorary Chair of #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5–11), joined by youth advocate Iris Mogul. Together they’ll spotlight the harms of censorship.
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/09/legendary-actorauthoractivist-george-takei-named-honorary-chair-banned-books-week-2025

Monochrome photograph looking up at a standing woman in a long dress next to a giant cactus type plant in a garden setting

Frida Kahlo, 1937 by fashion photographer Toni Frissell #womensart

Painting featuring eight differently coloured and shaped sea shell and an empty glasd on a wooden table top

The Prado, national art gallery of Spain, founded in 1819, only hosted its first solo exhibition of a female artist's work in 2016, 17thc painter Clara Peeters (her work below), not untypical of many major galleries across the world....
#WomensArtHistory

The 'liber divinorum operum' of St Hildegard of Bingen, c1500, in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library. Hildegard was a C12 abbess, mystic and composer whose work has become remarkably popular in recent years. She was canonised in 2012, and today is her feast.

A detail from: “The White Rose and the Red Rose” the 1902 panel by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

A beautiful print to be enjoyed always: duille.com/whiteroseturin

On this, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, a c1500 woodcut depicting St Bridget of Sweden venerating the crucifixion. Photographed in the recent 'Medieval Women' exhibition at the British Library, London.

It was a pleasure to have Prof Karen Snow, Carissa Chew @carissachew.bsky.social, Dr Karen Pierce @darklecat.bsky.social, & Helen Griffiths @helgriff.bsky.social presenting on Cataloguing Ethics as part of a our AGM Event yesterday.
Thank you to all the speakers and attendees (online & in-person).

South London's best-loved bookshop was heaving today. Bought some much-needed books, obviously.

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.

The Bookseller Crow Come and see us in Crystal Palace for a well established independent bookshop with a great atmosphere and the widest range of titles south of the river. Popular book club and author events, with t-shi...

Need a book? Bookseller Crow excellent indie bookshop proprietor Jonathan is gravely ill and they need all the business they can get. booksellercrow.co.uk
They’re on bookshop.org too.

I hate to say it, but has dementia been ruled out? It would be so easy to administer ADHD and Autism tests at the same time all in the one package.

Sending lots of prayers for energy and patience in any case x

Good. Hope that the GP does what is needed to get the ball rolling 🙏

If the friend is a church-goer, like you, the minister may have advice.

+ who have done this. It is not without stress and it does rely on the GP being decent. But it’s the first port of call for help and advice if someone you love is “not themselves” any more.

I hope you are OK. X

+ of dementia, the first route is via the family doctor. You can, for example, tell your own GP that you are experiencing stress due to a previously harmonious member of the household behaving uncharacteristically unreasonably. The GP can then explore a range of options.

I know people +

“Leaving impossible” is a real worry.

The other stuff is the same challenge faced by families of people in early stages of dementia. (There’s sometimes an overlap of symptoms too).

I am not an expert but I did do a GCSE level dementia care course and it said if family suspects someone +

+ OR make whatever the “reasonable adjustment” would be were a diagnosis in place.

I can’t really see what families can do other than that.

I suppose put up and shut up is the third option. And leave the fourth. But those are always the options of last resort in any situation 🤷🏻‍♀️

I tend to think if someone has found a way to live their life without being disadvantaged then they won’t see a need for diagnosis. Surely families have 2 choices: assume they are unreasonable and treat them as such, which will presumably lead to a disadvantage which may lead to seeking diagnosis +

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter.

Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting.

#art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

LeVar Burton Helps Save a California Library After Wildfire Devastation - Magazine After wildfires devastated Altadena, hope returned through books, community, and a surprise hero: LeVar Burton. Discover this powerful story.

LeVar Burton: literary hero! ❤️💪

magazine.1000libraries.com/levar-burton...

Whistlejacket: acclaimed 18th Century thoroughbred racehorse, owned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham & mentioned in Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer; powerful life-size painting c. 1762 by George Stubbs, preeminent English equine artist, born #OTD 1724. National Gallery

Whistlejacket: acclaimed 18th Century thoroughbred racehorse, owned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham & mentioned in Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer; powerful life-size painting c. 1762 by George Stubbs, preeminent English equine artist, born #OTD 1724.
National Gallery

Accidentally took the mathematically perfect shot of our local cat.

Nahaufnahme eines Allium mit dem halb geöffnetem Hüllblatt. Der Hintergrund ist unscharf.

Happy Sunday 🌿🌸
#FlowersOnSunday
#bloomscrolling
#Stunday

JMW Turner visited Fingal’s Cave on the Scottish island of Staffa in 1831 to record scenery for Lord of the Isles, an illustrated collection of poems by Sir Walter Scott. Fingal’s Cave was named after the hero of the poems of Ossian, a pastiche of northern myths and legends