Josh Sendall

09. Open Accessibility | Compass This book contains a knowledge base, guidance and planning models that will support small diamond op...

Let's take a deep dive into the new #OpenAccessibility Book on #CopimCompass 🧭

There are 6 chapters on principles, law, standards & strategy

🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...

#OpenAccess #Accessibility #Publishing

I'm looking forward to this @uksg.bsky.social webinar on usage metrics! It's happening a week after Uncovered, so you get two UKSG events in one month. Uncovered is about managing uncertainty and risk in our ever-changing world, and it's a cracker of a speaker line up: www.uksg.org/events/uksg-...

STP must be protected at all costs. I'm doing my part 😇

Three smiling people stood next to a large white metal sculpture, that looks like a freestanding curved piece of paper. Three words are punched out, reading: to leaf is.

Highs of 30 degrees in sunny Leeds this week 🌞

What better time to explore our Public Art Trail?

Start with today's #MuseumJigsaw 🧩

Juanjo Novella's 'Curtain', 2021, draws from the words of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and experiments with literature.

Play now: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

Thank you Jeff, this means a lot! 🤗

Exhibition preview talks by 3 of our wonderful #FUAM2025 finalists at the exhibition launch @lulgalleries.bsky.social tonight!

Thank you David 🥳😊

Thanks Andy! 🥳 I hope all's well with you 😊

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We're thrilled that @jsendall.bsky.social is stepping into the role of Acting University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection @UniversityLeeds 🎉

His passion for inclusive leadership makes him the perfect fit to carry the Libraries forward. Exciting times ahead!

#Libraries #HigherEd

UKSG 40th Anniversary Film Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Making plans for our 50th Anniversary* in 2027!

We made a video for our 40th about UKSG, how we started and who we are - you might be interested :) dub.sh/G7KDxgi (hello @charlierapple.bsky.social)

(*Feels faint)

Image for UKSG Conference & Exhibition 2026 30 March-1 April, SEC Glasgow

Time is running out for your chance to speak at #UKSG2026 in Glasgow! Submit your ideas here: dub.sh/lGMfvyz or contact us to talk through your suggestion! bev [@]uksg.org

Inspired! I'm on board 😆

It was so lovely seeing you Katie 😊

And I spy the exceptional @cgknowles.bsky.social (and other great colleagues—but Claire!) 🤩👏🏾

#LIBER2025 An absolutely wonderful session from @williamjnixon.bsky.social on the value of informal professional networks for leadership development. Lovely hearing about the ongoing positive life of LIBER's Emerging Leaders programme and the many people who make it happen. Genuinely wholesome ❤️🤩

Hotel California and short pyrotechnics display? 🎆

Last Friday, we hosted the Knowledge Futures Symposium 📚

We heard from inspirational speakers who examined how knowledge is created, shared and exploited today, and were challenged to think and discuss our role in creating a more equitable and open knowledge future.

#LKFS2025 #Library #LibSky

The collaborative learning area in our Health Sciences Library is now officially open!🏫

Many thanks to everyone who attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony today.🎀

#LibSky #AcademicSky

Concerned about the current state of attacks on knowledge, our role in providing access to & preserving authentic knowledge, and what would be the role of AI?

Join us at the inaugural Knowledge Futures Symposium on 27th June, 9am-4pm (BST), Online/In Person

conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefut...

Much practical wisdom about inclusion here, for anybody in any organisation. From Beth Montague-Hellen, Facet author, CILIP LGBTQ+ Network Chair, and Head of Library & Information Services at The Francis Crick Institute #EDI www.cilip.org.uk/news/696519/...

Of course... To gambol 😂

What's a gambol?

Oh that's amazing 🤩

Is gully an alley or a gutter?
Island... A roundabout 🤔
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A North Yorkshire Glossary – Weather & Time Inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s wonderful book, Landmarks, here is part one of a North Yorkshire glossary. Most of these words were collected by Richard Blakeborough, Rev. Atkinson & M. M…

Mizzly is a great word - not a great experience though 😅 Enjoy this lexical tour 🌦️:

teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/a...

We're really looking forward to it too, and we've even arranged for sunshine 🌞

This could potentially be considered excessive but I suspect there's a rationale for each one of the four 😅

They really do 🥰

Baines Wing University of Leeds and Spring flowers

It has got cold on my commute with the clocks springing forward. The Estates team do an amazing job of filling @universityofleeds.bsky.social campus with Spring flowers to cheer me up on my walk to the Brotherton Library.