Gary Horrocks

I feel a book review coming on 😊

So melancholy as today would have been my late, great friend Stephen’s 61st birthday. Sadly he joined the choir in August 2018 😞 My birthday follows in 2 weeks and I always rang him on the 9th to rub it in that I was, for a short while, 2 weeks younger 👏 Bless him💓

I’m sure this would make a brilliant Pet Shop Boys album title 👏

Fab tap in my garden. I was about to check if the water flowed when a family of incy wincy spiders dangled down from its interior to grab a glimpse of a humid summer day. Fragile athletics on a teetering web. Bugger. I haven’t the heart to evict these sweet creatures with a full on tap tsunami 💕

Events Calendar - Special Interest Group: UK eInformation Group - CILIP: the library and information association Michael Rosen keynotes our cross-sector programme which, this year, explores key themes around ethics and influencing. Join us for two days of inspiring talks, workshops and networking.

Early heads up. I am going to host another workshop for @ukeig.bsky.social @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social
September 30th - 12-2pm.
Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences

Details to come- follow UKeiG or watch this space
www.cilip.org.uk/events/event...

We’ve transitioned 40 years from Band Aid to Banned Aid. Good old Ian Hislop who articulated the bitter irony of the situation on tonight’s #bbcpm #GazaStarving

Fabulous 👏 Me, the BBC and Oasis

Whirlwind work visit to my hometown of Manchesterford. Squeezed in a steak and kidney pudding with hard core chips, gravy, mushy peas, L S Lowry… and my old mate of 56 years or so Paula 👏

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Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 !
So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people!
@cilip.bsky.social

Inspiring words from Sue Bryant, opening #cilipconf25 "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"

Some of the best library events I've ever been to have opened with a poem. This is one. Thankyou Rishi 🙏 #cilipconf25

Brilliant keynote speech from Sebastian Cuttill at #CILIPConf25 on "the power of advocacy", putting forward a forceful argument for fighting back against allowing the AI agenda of "predominantly U.S-based tech firms to dictate our future". Am excited for the rest of the day!

Quality panel debate at #cilipconf25 - AI, creative rights, ethics and more

Such an immense pleasure to meet @ukeig.bsky.social’s two conference bursary winners Imogen and Prabina this morning. A great feeling spreading the joy of library, information and knowledge management 👏 @cilip.bsky.social

#cilipconf25

Fabulous #CILIP conference first day (and night) yesterday. So much food for thought, and I ingested it like a hoover👏 Bring on day 2 @cilip.bsky.social #cilipconf25

Birmingham knows I’m here 🌈👏😊 @cilip.bsky.social

A shout out to the great CILIP team on the morning of their two day annual conference in Birmingham. I have coffee, a biro and notebook and am raring to go. There’s old fashioned for you 👏@cilip.bsky.social

Donalbain in bloody Macbeth! My father the king was dead and I skipped on saying ‘what is amiss?’ The producer sighed and said, ‘we’re not doing the Polanski version dear. It’s not a game show.’ I begged them to put me in a comedy. Bloody Shakespeare

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die #JudyGarland

Bloody hell. Must we descend into this quagmire of bullshit. We’re staring WW3 in the eye for goodness sake 😔

My office at King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry in the early 1990s. It was in the Pepperpot building in Camberwell, South London at the famous hospital site. I sunbathed on the roof. The posters tell a tale of the info industry as it was back then @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social

Such a joy to know that the remains of my fridge should be on Digging for Britain 👏

One is trying to visualise this process.

There’s an essential truth to this, played out decades on with the ascendancy of disruptive #AI. That sense of anxiety, angst and our library, information and knowledge profession’s immediate response to get to grips @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social @nedpotter.bsky.social @colric.bsky.social

Pray divulge …

Cover of the Colric Impact Magazine - The voice of Further Education and Sixth form College Libraries and Learning Resource Services.

The new edition of our Impact magazine is out today. This edition is jam packed with interesting articles and information.
Members can read this via our mailing list or website. If you are not a member why not consider joining? Information can be found here www.colric.org.uk/join-colric
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Easter joy 💓🌈

You gorgeous creature! Miss you immensely. Congratulations 🥳 Let’s grab that phone call (or fern curl) as one says in Humberside 😊

Think of all the vitamins

Have six 💋