Alice B
@alibloo.bsky.social
Academic Support Librarian, Supports Performance school at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, interested in information literacy and teaching. Originally a language graduate, like to try and keep up with language learning, also now trying to learn Latin .
I had forgotten the total very specific hellscape that is trying to timetable inductions and desk shifts .
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I had forgotten the total very specific hellscape that is trying to timetable inductions and desk shifts .
I now genuinely don't know who I hate more: the far right self proclaimed "patriots" and the party that initiates supports and encourages their actions or the pandering so called left wing government we have that refuses to challenge any of the rhetoric but just moves ever closer to their position
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I now genuinely don't know who I hate more: the far right self proclaimed "patriots" and the party that initiates supports and encourages their actions or the pandering so called left wing government we have that refuses to challenge any of the rhetoric but just moves ever closer to their position
Aslan likes wardrobes. Of course.
August 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Aslan likes wardrobes. Of course.
The DfE says AI should only be used for "low-stakes" marking such as quizzes or homework, and teachers must check its results. (BBC news)
So, teachers are being told to save time on marking by marking AI's marking instead of marking their pupils work. hmm. quite apart from all the other AI issues.
So, teachers are being told to save time on marking by marking AI's marking instead of marking their pupils work. hmm. quite apart from all the other AI issues.
June 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The DfE says AI should only be used for "low-stakes" marking such as quizzes or homework, and teachers must check its results. (BBC news)
So, teachers are being told to save time on marking by marking AI's marking instead of marking their pupils work. hmm. quite apart from all the other AI issues.
So, teachers are being told to save time on marking by marking AI's marking instead of marking their pupils work. hmm. quite apart from all the other AI issues.
The first 2 modules of this are out for feedback from library services colleagues - bit nerve wracking now, waiting to see what people think. I want there to be critical feedback obviously but also hoping for people to be nice!
Really happy that on Thursday this week I will begin a 2 day a week 6 month role, alongside my current role, working on developing online digital information literacy resources. Very excited!
April 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The first 2 modules of this are out for feedback from library services colleagues - bit nerve wracking now, waiting to see what people think. I want there to be critical feedback obviously but also hoping for people to be nice!
Honestly, this just makes me think you should wait and publish the research after it's been carried out.
April 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Honestly, this just makes me think you should wait and publish the research after it's been carried out.
The whatsapp group reads like something out of The Thick of It and I am amusing myself thinking about Malcom Tucker's reaction
March 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The whatsapp group reads like something out of The Thick of It and I am amusing myself thinking about Malcom Tucker's reaction
Question for cat owners, who don't mind sharing - do you let your cat(s) out at night? we said we wouldn't, but he has got out a few times, ; when he cant there is much miaowing/ scrabbling at cat flap - now wondering if we are causing him more stress than any benefit of keeping him inside at night?
March 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Question for cat owners, who don't mind sharing - do you let your cat(s) out at night? we said we wouldn't, but he has got out a few times, ; when he cant there is much miaowing/ scrabbling at cat flap - now wondering if we are causing him more stress than any benefit of keeping him inside at night?
Really happy that on Thursday this week I will begin a 2 day a week 6 month role, alongside my current role, working on developing online digital information literacy resources. Very excited!
February 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Really happy that on Thursday this week I will begin a 2 day a week 6 month role, alongside my current role, working on developing online digital information literacy resources. Very excited!
one of my favourite did you mean sillynesses. Made even better by the fact that I clicked a link to get to that, not even something I typed in.
January 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
one of my favourite did you mean sillynesses. Made even better by the fact that I clicked a link to get to that, not even something I typed in.
It's lead up to dissertation hand in period, AKA lots of referencing questions and requests for 1-1 support..
January 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's lead up to dissertation hand in period, AKA lots of referencing questions and requests for 1-1 support..
I did this as my way into librarianship, it was great. Only thing for me was that the library I worked in was very much not a "normal" 21st century library :) And one of my colleagues from then remains one of my closest friends :)
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January 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I did this as my way into librarianship, it was great. Only thing for me was that the library I worked in was very much not a "normal" 21st century library :) And one of my colleagues from then remains one of my closest friends :)
1/2 Yesterday I was supposed to be teaching a session on reference management software, at the explicit request of an academic. I believe it wasnt compulsory but had been heavily advertised to the students by the academic, and referencing is an area we always get a lot of questions on - but zero
November 15, 2024 at 2:34 PM
1/2 Yesterday I was supposed to be teaching a session on reference management software, at the explicit request of an academic. I believe it wasnt compulsory but had been heavily advertised to the students by the academic, and referencing is an area we always get a lot of questions on - but zero
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Alt: gif of Mrs Doubtfire with cake icing on her face, as a face mask. Saying hello.
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August 29, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Hi Bluesky, we're the network for #Neurodivergent #Library & Information Staff.
If you could be so kind as to retweet this we would love you forever.
More about us at nlisn.org
#Autism
#Dyslexia
#ADHD
#Dyscalculia
#Dysgraphia
#Dyspraxia
📚 #KM #KnowledgeManagement #IM #KIM #Librarian #Skybrarian
If you could be so kind as to retweet this we would love you forever.
More about us at nlisn.org
#Autism
#Dyslexia
#ADHD
#Dyscalculia
#Dysgraphia
#Dyspraxia
📚 #KM #KnowledgeManagement #IM #KIM #Librarian #Skybrarian
I'm new to working from home with a cat in the house - this is a legitimate reason not to get anything done, right?
November 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM
I'm new to working from home with a cat in the house - this is a legitimate reason not to get anything done, right?
Been thinking I should unsubscribe from a certain right wing newspaper mailing list, which Im not sure how I got onto in the first place, and todays article saying Kamala Harris ran the worst campaign in history, was the final impetus I needed.
November 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Been thinking I should unsubscribe from a certain right wing newspaper mailing list, which Im not sure how I got onto in the first place, and todays article saying Kamala Harris ran the worst campaign in history, was the final impetus I needed.
Saw The Apprentice today, brilliant film and Jeremy Strong is phenomenal in it.
October 28, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Saw The Apprentice today, brilliant film and Jeremy Strong is phenomenal in it.
Wondering for a while not to have any uptake on an offer I made via email to academics . hmm. turns out said email was sitting in my drafts folder. Yeah, that'd be why. 🤦
October 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Wondering for a while not to have any uptake on an offer I made via email to academics . hmm. turns out said email was sitting in my drafts folder. Yeah, that'd be why. 🤦
Today I am discovering a distressingly large number of results when searching for Indian ... are giving results relating more to North America. And this is across multiple resources.
October 16, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Today I am discovering a distressingly large number of results when searching for Indian ... are giving results relating more to North America. And this is across multiple resources.
Train malarkey this morning with delays,, crowds and then the train not stopping at my station, exacerbated by the lady next to me deciding that I was to be the repository for her complaints about her journey. Do I exude some sort of tell me your problems air?
October 8, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Train malarkey this morning with delays,, crowds and then the train not stopping at my station, exacerbated by the lady next to me deciding that I was to be the repository for her complaints about her journey. Do I exude some sort of tell me your problems air?
When I was an undergraduate we did have email, but the hall of residence had a small computer room, for which there was always a queue, and you accessed email through pine.
How old are you in Internet years without telling your age?
You'll need to have a floppy disk and you can use it in the Computing Center even though you aren't studying IT
(This little timeline of computing at UEA is fantastic!)
ueacomputingcentrearchive.uea.ac.uk
You'll need to have a floppy disk and you can use it in the Computing Center even though you aren't studying IT
(This little timeline of computing at UEA is fantastic!)
ueacomputingcentrearchive.uea.ac.uk
October 1, 2024 at 1:29 PM
When I was an undergraduate we did have email, but the hall of residence had a small computer room, for which there was always a queue, and you accessed email through pine.
Seeing #MyFirstTerryPratchett posts so: Mine: a hall of residence year abroad in France where the three of us from my Uni swapped books to read and one loaned me Reaper Man. It made me laugh so hard, and I remember the other friend in the room was reading War Horse and the contrast was crazy.
September 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Seeing #MyFirstTerryPratchett posts so: Mine: a hall of residence year abroad in France where the three of us from my Uni swapped books to read and one loaned me Reaper Man. It made me laugh so hard, and I remember the other friend in the room was reading War Horse and the contrast was crazy.
I had forgotten quite how much I hate the timetabling week from hell: Inductions + desk timetable.
September 25, 2024 at 11:04 AM
I had forgotten quite how much I hate the timetabling week from hell: Inductions + desk timetable.
reposting this question, as I asked it before I really had any engagement on here - the session is all planned now but I am still intrigued if this area has been written about?
Does anyone know of any writings specifically looking at library inductions for MA students? I'm creating a new style induction this year for PG students and wondered if there was any research into this but I haven't found any.
September 12, 2024 at 1:10 PM
reposting this question, as I asked it before I really had any engagement on here - the session is all planned now but I am still intrigued if this area has been written about?