Emma Booth (she/her)

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We're seeking committee members for #CILIP's new Intellectual Freedom Committee. The Committee will work towards everyone's right to read, think, and speak freely, and lead discussions on issues of censorship and access to information. Join us: https://ow.ly/k3I250XwXKR. Apply now!

Happy Birthday BNB! 🎉🎂
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950.
The BNB is currently available on the Share Family beta portal as linked data: bl.natbib-lod.org
#metadata #libraries

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Ready to take your library career to the next level?

Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.

Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP

https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1992214&group=

Our final Practical Cataloguing Workshop is:
Enhancing #metadata quality: a practical introduction to #MARC data cleaning using #Python and #RDA principles

Tuesday 9th December 2025, 1-2pm
with Dalia Kbar (American University in Dubai)

Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing

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Notes listing: Open Easy to ingest Linked data ready and other text cut off

Really good day at the @cilipmdg.bsky.social Worldcafé style meeting on alternatives to LCSH! Excellently organised - lots to think about shelf ready metadata, consortia catalogues, skills and legacy… also very cool to learn of the London institutions (Kings and Wellcome) now using Homosaurus

https://email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2U19H-48/sv.aspx

We've just hit send on this month's MDG Bulletin - check it out for news and events for #metadata & #cataloguing professionals. 📚📖🐈
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2U19H-4...

And the recording of the #NAGWebinarWeek presentation on #Metadata in #Partnership is now available! nag.org.uk/development/...

Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.

I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

Reminder: call for contributions for the December issue of our OA journal 'Catalogue & Index' themed around #RDA: Resource Description and Access www.rdatoolkit.org/about
Deadline for submissions: Monday 1st December 2025
Guidance for contributors: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

Not sure where to start strengthening Diamond Open Access?

Over the next 11 weeks, we’ll be sharing the DIAMAS recommendations — clear, practical steps to make scholarly communication sustainable, inclusive, and high-quality.

There's still time to register for our free World Cafe event on Subject Analysis and Subject Headings at the Wellcome Collection London, Wed 26th Nov 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
Registration open until 25th Nov
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics #changethesubject

Today's Practical Cataloguing Webinar is: Regular Expressions (or #Regex) with Fran Frenzel

An accessible introduction to regular expressions, designed specifically for #librarians and #metadata professionals.

Thursday 20th November 13:00-14:00.
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata

https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1992213&group=

Our next Practical Cataloguing Workshop is:
Printed music cataloguing: a short introduction

Thursday 27th November 2025, 1-2 pm
with Caroline Shaw & Meg Fisher
Presented in conjunction with iaml-uk-irl.org

Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #cataloguing #music

#Metadata never sleeps!
To remain useful and usable it has to evolve and adapt to different uses, users, and systems.
#MetadataMaintenanceMatters

ROI means very different things to different stakeholders!
Commercial book and bib data suppliers view ROI very differently to libraries!
"Not everything that has value can be measured... not everything that is measured has value"

Starting now! Time to logon... What doesn't come shelf-ready and what do cataloguers do with it? #NAGWebinarWeek - We will be live posting so follow along and join the conversation

Map with a pin on Nottingham titled "Save the Date NAG Seminar 2026" 20 and 21 May, Albert Hall Nottingham more info https://nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/

That's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who attended or contributed to #NAGWebinarWeek 2025 and we hope to see lots of you in person at NAG Seminar and Forum in Nottingham in May 2026!
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham

More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26

Looking forward to the #CopimConference in February 2026! This free two day hybrid conference will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #openaccess book publishing.
Register at: buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

Here's the thread 🧵 from the joint @uomlibrary.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social presentation for #NAGWebinarWeek on #Metadata in Partnership

NAG Webinar Week: What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? Anne Welsh, Beginning Cataloguing Thur 20 Nov 12 noon Book now: https://nag.org.uk/event/welsh/ Free webinar #NAGWebinarWeek Image of a stack of books.

Tomorrow: NAG Webinar Week -
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek

Save the date NAG seminar 2026. Image of a pin stuck into a map at Nottingham. 20 &21 May 2026, Albert Hall, Nottingham, also with NAG Forum 20th May. More info https://nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/

Save the Date! NAG Seminar and Forum is coming to Nottingham for 2026 and we're making it a two day event 🎉
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham

More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26

Looking forward to this webinar with my @uomlibrary.bsky.social metadata team colleague Beth Price, and members of the @manchesterup.bsky.social team; Kate, Jess and Jen.
Join to hear how a University Press and a University Library can partner to ensure #metadata quality for all. #NAGwebinarweek

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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.

To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.

Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

Embracing Messiness: Open access offers the chance to creatively experiment with scholarly publishing. - Impact of Social Sciences In the quest for greater access to scholarly work, the discussion has long been characterised as a search, for better or for worse, for the most sustainable model. In this transcript of her recent tal...

We build community and collaboration upon shared common goals across this complexity. Janneka Adema explores the value of preserving the messiness, creativity and diversity of the movement: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Interesting point in the Q&A discussion about Open Infrastructures & the Open Ecosystem being complex & 'messy' with many stakeholders & organisations. Toby maintains that this is a feature not a bug - there's no 1 single point of failure and the complexity supports different needs and use-cases.

SCOSS, Thoth and OAPEN are supporters of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
barcelona-declaration.org

DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social (a community-driven discovery service that indexes & provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books) is a trusted platform for stakeholders in the OA Books ecosystem - DOAB are building a Trusted Platform Network of publishers and #OABooks hosting platforms

A broad range of stakeholders are involved in the Forum, mapping an OA Books Policy Matrix with the PALOMERA Policy Recommendations. The Forum members and the OPERAS SIG are now looking at 3 areas to collaborate...

The OA Books Policy Forum came out of PALOMERA, it is hosted by @scienceeurope.org in cooperation with @coalitions-oa.bsky.social and @oapenbooks.bsky.social - it aims to be the platform for collaboration for funders for implementing the recommendations from PALOMERA zenodo.org/records/1404...

These communities grew out of the PALOMERA project - In a nutshell, PALOMERA seeks to understand why so few OA funder policies include books, and to provide actionable recommendations to change this. www.oapen.org/funders/palo...