Isabel Holowaty

The son is younger and very cross atm. Well done, everybody. 🙄

Developing Inclusive collections information card, white RLUK logo and text against a yellow background.

RLUK is delighted to publish the Developing Inclusive Collections guide on reflective practice, providing a framework for colleagues at all career stages

This guide is useful to those working or aiming to work in collection-based decolonisation + build on existing knowledge+skills

bit.ly/INC-COLL

Today is a good moment to share some readings on the rise of the Green Party in Germany.

Langguth: The Green Factor in German Politics : From Protest Movement to Political Party. 2019.

Müller-Rommel: New Politics in Western Europe : The Rise and Success of Green Parties and Alternative Lists.

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#CopimConference session on experimental publishing: Emma Gallon @uolpress.bsky.social: outside Digital Humanities, many not aware of opportunities. Hums subjects where audio (music, literature) or visuals (art, etc) would really benefit. But: copyright & digital preservation issues even harder!

'It is a trust universally acknowledged that doctoral supervisors in want of training are the ones who never turn up.' Paraphrasing Zoe Stockdale, with apologies to Jane Austen. #CopimConference

This is certainly what @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and I have been doing with Taylor Editions! @tayoxford.bsky.social The model is appreciated by reviewers, e.g. muse.jhu.edu/article/965571

Ruth Mallalieu standing next to a large blue display screen with text which reads: Make it Open, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford 'Proud supporters of COPIM and the Open Book Collection.'

@bodleian.ox.ac.uk is proud to support @copim.bsky.social and the Open Book Collective, as elegantly demonstrated by our Head of the Office of Open Research @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social. #CopimConference

I just asked ChatGPT "Hey ChatGPT, do you know how to redesign text in a document to make it fully accessible?" It says 'yes' and gives good list of 12 areas it would work on. Not bad but would be good to test. #CopimConference

@anicazeyen.bsky.social outlining the many everyday barriers with reading online content as a blind person. What an eye-opener* and useful to get a reminder of what any content creators should be doing. #CopimConference

*sorry.

Anybody interested at #CopimConference in the OU's free gift 'Digital Accessibility for Academic Libraries: Optimising Primo VE', here is the link: www.open.edu/openlearncre...

Am struck how often we keep coming back to scholars being ultimately key in the transition to sustainable OA publishing. Sounds so obvious but I'm only really now fully digesting this. 🙄 #CopimConference

Agree with Tom Grady that surprisingly few are talking about REF-mandated OA monos from 1 January 2029. This is going to come round very quickly & the OA book market is not shifting quickly enough for next REF. #CopimConference

Having fun at #CopimConference. 🥳 with the delightful @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social.

May not get a chance to ask my Q at #copimconference in session 'Librarians as Diamond Open Access changemakers' so will ask here: have any librarians been successful in recruiting an OA Champion from the academic community? Scholars listen more to their peers than their librarian [🙄 *cough*]

Less than 2 hrs into #copimconference & my mind is buzzing with questions & ideas: how adjust library materials budgets frameworks to free up seed funding? how do you measure success of a scheme? how make a case when content of a scheme doesn't fit?

#CopimConference Loving the scholar-led publishing love-fest. Are we, in a way, going back to the original roots of early university presses which were originally scholar-led before they morphed in professional money-making enterprises?

And we have kick off at #CopimConference! Exciting to have space, time & opportunities to discuss, explore & progress community-led #OABooks.

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" and "SEAHAWKS.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Seattle Seahawks website from October 31, 2001, alongside one from February 9, 2026.

🏈🏆 The champions change. So do their websites.

From early HTML to modern redesigns, the #WaybackMachine preserves the digital playbook of #NFL champs, decades of archived team sites, including the Seattle Seahawks 🏟️

Run the archive ➡️ web.archive.org

#webpreservation #Football #Seahawks #superbowl

A screenshot from the database LGBTQ+ Life in America, showing photographs of people (mostly smiling) behind a search box.

A screenshot from the database Sex & Sexuality, which includes an artistic rendering of of two people looking at each other below search menus

The Bodleian Libraries are trialling access to two new databases! #LGBTplusHM

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Life in America
❤️ Sex & Sexuality

Both databases can be found through Databases A-Z: libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/az.php

Both trials run until 28/02/2025. Want to give feedback? Read on! 👇

#WinterOlymics.

I wonder how long it will be before people will remember that it's far quicker to type keywords into a search box than write out your search query in natural language. Or you move to dictation.

Photo of two people walking in a misty slightly sunlit Christ Church meadows.

A different photo of two people walking in a misty slightly sunlit Christ Church path lined with trees.

I’m grateful to Oxford Bus Company chucking passengers off for a ‘change of bus’. I would otherwise have missed the atmospheric Christ Church #Oxford meadows. 😍

Photo of a sign: the system will only operate if the lift doors will not open.

This is scrambling my brain…

The delights of train travel in UK: pensioners get excited about dirty trains. Huge entertainment & talent expressing itself 😆 while waiting for the driver - who is also late. 🙄

Let's Take a Moment to Reflect on Overcommitment and Burnout in Academic Libraries - Choice 360 TIE contributor Jamia Williams covers strategies for how academic librarians can mitigate the impact of burnout in their professional lives.

"Overcommitment remains a major contributor to burnout in academic librarianship, and addressing it requires both individual strategies and broader structural change." #AcademicLibraries 📚 #HigherEd
www.choice360.org/tie-post/tak...

And then there were none.

“You say re-colonised 🎼🎵🎶I say de-colonised 🎼🎶🎵

You say NATO, I say potato. 🎼🎶🎵

Let's call the whole thing off 🎼🎵🎶 Let’s call the whole thing off. “

With apologies to Gershwin.

#greenland

"I would know by what power I am called hither... by what authority, I mean, lawful". Charles I, 20 January 1648.

history.hanover.edu/courses/exce...

Learned a new word today which perfectly describes my household:

Tsundoku = a Japanese term for the habit of buying books and letting them pile up unread. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

The culprit is mostly my husband 🙄. I happen to work in one of the country’s largest libraries which now lends recently published bks

Explore Charles Booth’s maps and notebooks online ✍️🏻

This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎

booth.lse.ac.uk/map

#London #History