Katharine Davidson-Brown

Come and work with my lovely, lovely team 😊

Love seeing the messages students leave for each other

Bill Bryson Library exterior photo

Bill Bryson Library will be closed next Monday (25 August) for summer bank holiday 🏢 We'll be open again from 9am the next day 😊

For more information about opening times across all of our sites, visit our website 👉 libguides.durham.ac.uk/Libraries/ #DULib

Image of Dinah in her studio Woman dressed in brightly coloured clothing seated at a desk. She is looking down with a smile on her face, reading a piece of paper. Surrounding her are the sketches, art materials and tools she uses to create her art.

Enchanted Objects – Adornment and Personal Protection from Amulets to the Mobile Phone has opened at #DUOrientalMuseum. Created by contemporary artist Dinah Kelly the installation highlights our ongoing interest in the power of charms, talismans and amulets.

#contemporaryart #talismans

Guides: DULib Wellbeing: Home Guides: DULib Wellbeing: Home

We have a wellbeing guide at @dulib.bsky.social libguides.durham.ac.uk/wellbeing

so jealous I'm missing this 😢 #ALN25

love this! #ALN25

not able to attend the in person day of #ALN25, but hoping to follow all the excitement on here

Love seeing the beautiful artwork and little notes the students leave for each other on our chalk wall

Brilliant to hear from the studentv partners themselves about what they've done in their roles, their reflections and what they've learnt

attending an #ALN online session this afternoon on working with students as partners. hopefully some good practical advise on getting students more involved in library services, supporting delivery and development

Collage of entries from our photo competition.

Collage of entries from our photo competition.

Collage of entries from our photo competition.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our wellbeing photo competition during Wednesday’s ALN online conference! 📸 We loved seeing your creative and inspiring submissions 🤩 Here’s a collage featuring some of the entries - swipe through to see them all ➡️

#ALN25

a picture of a boy fighting with shadow monsters

Twilight Talks - ‘Beasts and Legends: Adventures through North East Folklore’, Curating the Exhibition. Book on Eventbrite.

Join the team at Palace Green Library share experiences of curating the exhibition. Discover artefacts from collections, and collaborative artworks by Ruth Flowers.

Image of Durham castle

Remembering the #kindness keynote of #ALN25 and that yesterday our (mainly student) college librarians gave up most of their afternoon to show each other around their sites and talk about their services and their challenges, including this beautiful Norman castle

Create your own value and impact: learn, teach, develop (self and others) #ALN25

Recognising and highlighting the bias in AI to students #ALN25

Using the lived experiences of students as a way of explaining the importance and benefits of info literacy skills #ALN25

Designing sessions to allow for changes in attention by using different activities to re-engage students #ALN25

Promoting information literacy as a life skill, with impact far beyond a students academic career #ALN25

Machines need access too! For assistive technologies, data mining for research etc. #ALN25

Paywalls as a form of economic censorship #ALN25

Accessibility in terms of being perceivable, operable, understandable, robust #ALN25

Research output is not fully open access unless it's accessible #ALN25

Success is not always tangible, importance of impact that can't be easily recorded - feeling welcome and represented #ALN25

Building relationships with wider uni community to ensure representation through awareness months #ALN25

Using awareness months as opportunities to showcase collections beyond print and e-books #ALN25

Excited to learn about how other institutions promote collections through awareness months #ALN25

Importance of flexibility and creativity of spaces - are there alternative smaller spaces available which will meet user occupancy needs during quieter period (e.g. Christmas and Easter) that would allow closure of the bigger library #ALN25

Importance of a critical friend in reviewing processes, asking the awkward questions -why #ALN25

Changes to use behaviour following COVID - more self sufficient? #ALN25