@davidprosser.bsky.social
Executive Director of Research Llibraries UK, supporting research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Chair of the Board for the Directory of Open Access Journal. He/him
Reminder about next week's online panel.
www.psu.edu/news/univers...
The British Library is hosting its annual virtual Open and Engaged Conference over three non-consecutive afternoons: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, this week, as part of International Open Access Week.
More details and registration at: openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...
I was very sorry to miss what looks like a fabulous event last week in Manchester to celebrate 175 years of the Public Libraries Act. We in research libraries recognise the importance of supporting our fabulous, but under-resourced, public libraires #Libraries175
13.10.2025 07:50 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
29.09.2025 06:42 — 👍 77 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 2
We’re delighted to announce the third #RLUK #AHRC @armauk.bsky.social Research Catalyst Cohort #REPRCC for academic libraries.
Over the next year they will develop their research confidence, skills & capabilities
bit.ly/47JXXty
🎉 Congratulations #librariesXresearch cohort! 👇
Or, well-known Manchester lady who founded an amazing library ! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
14.09.2025 08:20 — 👍 88 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 5
Last Night of the Proms flag waving audience
Last Night of the Proms audience and orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall
I’m not a natural flag waver. But having been to more than five proms this year we got into the ballot for the Last Night. It felt like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
But slightly odd. Musically least satisfactory Prom I’ve been to this season and hard to tell how ironically people took it
A real pleasure to be at the launch of the #LightbulbMoments exhibition at the University of Liverpool's Victoria Gallery and Museum. An excellent exhibition in a fabulously refurbished space
11.09.2025 19:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A quote from the booklet on the impossibility of keeping up with the ever-growing literature
Some things don’t change…
11.09.2025 15:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The brown cover of a 1925 booklet containing a speech on special libraries
As a result of a clear-out I have been gifted this 100-year-old booklet with the text of ‘a paper read before the Library Association Conference, Birmingham, September, 1925’
11.09.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Liver Birds against a bright blue sky
No prizes for guessing where I am…
11.09.2025 07:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Neo-gothic corridor in the John Rylands Library
Main reading room of the John Rylands Library - a cathedral to knowledge in the Victorian neo-gothic style
Always a treat to visit Manchester University’s John Rylands Library. Today for a meeting of the RLUK Collections Strategy Network
08.09.2025 17:03 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Built in 1975. It’s where I did all my revision.
It was refurbished about 10 years ago and was looking rather splendid. associated-architects.co.uk/project/edwa...
I got a graduation handshake as well - Leeds 1988
There would have been a pic, but my parents double-exposed the film on a beach holiday later that summer…
Wow!
04.09.2025 17:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🔵 #RLUK26 #CFP | Stewardship in challenging times:
the role of libraries in supporting civic society
📣The Call for papers is now open for the #RLUK26 virtual conference being held on 25-27 March 2026. The conference is open to all.
🔗 Find out more at bit.ly/RLUKconf
The @doaj.bsky.social is consulting on whether to retire their Added/Withdrawn change logs. There is a short survey and feedback is very welcome:
blog.doaj.org/2025/07/14/l...
Imperial is recruiting for a newly-created role of Deputy University Librarian:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Tromsø in winter is a fascinating place to be and the Munin Conference always has an excellent programme:
site.uit.no/muninconf/
I was asked for a comment on the UK's journal big deal negotiations. We are in a sector-wide consultation and so not appropriate to talk specifics - but there is an apparent lack of understanding by some publishers of the current financial position of UK HE
21.08.2025 08:39 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Looks splendid!
20.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BBC4 on Sunday night!
16.08.2025 23:14 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It was fabulous, wasn’t it
16.08.2025 21:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The annual visit of @auroraorchestra.bsky.social has become a must-attend Prom for us.
Stupendous Shostakovich 5. Very moving first half where they put the symphony in context, then a blazing performance of the full work
It was recorded for TV. Look out for it - unmissable
We're very excited to open the Call for Papers for the next RLUK Conference. We welcome papers from all over the world, and not just from RLUK Members. So please do consider submitting a paper
15.08.2025 09:18 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0As part of our work to revise the @rluk.ac.uk strategy we have been looking at possible futures over the next five years and classified some of the many uncertainties that we will have to work with. We have provided a (non-exhaustive!) list in this blog
15.08.2025 09:16 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Ha - indeed! But they are ever two years. I think OAI-2 was the first one I went to, or it might have been 3…
oai.events/previous-oai...
The 14th OAI Workshop will take place online 10-14 November 2025, with the theme of Open Science in a changing world.
Registration is free and open to anyone across the globe. - oai.events/oai14/.
🌐Congratulations to #DOAJ Managing Director @joannaball.bsky.social who joins the @oaspa.bsky.social Board in September
Also acknowledging outgoing Board member DOAJ Deputy Director Dominic Mitchell, who completes his two terms
www.oaspa.org/news/results...
Happy Birthday to @natlibscot.bsky.social - here's to the next 100!
07.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
