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Stéise
@booksparrow.bsky.social
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Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️‍🌈 unapologetically femme
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · Dec 5
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Cartoon of a fox in a purple dress with a bow on its head. It is stood at a library check out desk and has a book and date stamp in front of it. It is leaning back and looks to be screaming. The word librarian hovers next to it.
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internationaltimes.bsky.social
Thanks to Tim Mitchell

Andy Ellis
-Monk - so how do you want me to do this R?
-Bishop - cat owl with crossbow being climbed by a woman with her hand in a fish's mouth and a flying crocodile please
-Monk - All over it boss. No stress
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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booksparrow.bsky.social
It is the book birthday of children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are'
This was published #OTD in 1963.
It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…
Illustration from where the wild things are showing fur horned and clawed monster like creatures dancing in the dark forest to the moonlight accompanied by a small child in a crown and suit mimicking the monsters features.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
booksparrow.bsky.social
It is the book birthday of children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are'
This was published #OTD in 1963.
It’s also world kindness day.. I’m sure there’s a moral here somewhere…
Illustration from where the wild things are showing fur horned and clawed monster like creatures dancing in the dark forest to the moonlight accompanied by a small child in a crown and suit mimicking the monsters features.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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jtullock.bsky.social
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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robertjbennett.bsky.social
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Oh, to be a Fly...
In a Choirbook?

#ThingsInBooks
Smashed but identifiable fly in a red and black printed 16th c. gradual service book with music. Full Gradual service book with music and fly.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Considering going no more a-roving with fair maids? Has roving been your ruin?

Call the Roving Advice Line NOW for a free quote.
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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tomslists.bsky.social
If you can’t decide which way to go, maybe just sit down
A bench made of old wooden signs set on grass covered in dead leaves
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
booksparrow.bsky.social
Don’t mind me… I’ll just be dreaming about the pink Pyrex I didn’t buy and am now regretting.
#midCentury
#vintage #retro
Photo showing three dishes on a shelf they are made of pink Pyrex and are decorated with a white floral motif.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
booksparrow.bsky.social
Just stop it M&S:
Photo of a pack of 2 pecan and salted caramel blondies. These are square lightly coloured cake like things with a swirly pattern on the top. The pack is black and yellow and has the marmite logo on it. The text on the box says “pecan tiffin infused with marmite”
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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hannahshelley.bsky.social
#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?
the horrors persist, but so DOI (a doi is a persistent identifier for academic papers, e.g. 10.1000/182)
March 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
fun fact: Halloween in the north of England used to be known as nut-crack night.

people would mark nuts with the names of lovers and place them around a fire.

nuts that sizzled, spat or jumped indicated romantic incompatibility. nuts that burned together suggested peaceful, happy partnerships.
Two books sit on a wooden window sill in our reading room, looking out onto the museum garden. The first book is titled "An English Almanac". Its cover features beautiful illustrations related to astrology. The second book is titled "The English Festivals", and features a blue cover adorned with musical patterns and illustrated instruments.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
The work of May Morris (1862-1938) influential English embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor who supported and taught fellow female artists #WomensArt#WomensArt
Embroidered textile with repeated blue diamond shaped design in which individual flowering plants are depicted
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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ehkopin.bsky.social
Misread a post about “National Medical Librarians Month” as “National Mediocre Librarians Month,” was so excited to finally be celebrated
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 AM
booksparrow.bsky.social
🐦Not sure what the bird intends to do with the funds… but I am here for it
Also did the pigeon do the crochet? so many questions.
#Vinted #Pigeon #Bird #PigeonPounds
Screenshot showing two photos of items for sale. one is of a pair of brown leather boots with a pigeon sat on one of them. The other photo is on a pair of headphones also with a pigeon perch on it. Screenshot showing two handmade keyrings for sale. They appear to be crocheted. There is a picture of a pigeon in each of the photos.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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catharina24.bsky.social
And now for something completely different. 3rd November 1310 was the earliest use of the F-word.

#MedievalSky #Medieval

www.medievalists.net/2023/08/earl...
Paul Booth of Keele University spotted the name ‘Roger Fuckebythenavele’ in the Chester County Court Plea Rolls for November 3, 1310. He was part of a long list of people that were supposed to be arrested by authorities, but could not be found. Over the next year he would be named in the records six more times, and because he could not be found, the court declared him an outlaw that was to be arrested. The final mention of Roger appears on September 28, 1311, with the sheriff still looking for him.
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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aliceponderland.bsky.social
Tutting; eye rolling; pointed sighing; sarcasm; muttering passive aggressive comments to yourself; and a Paddington Bear hard stare.
el-intrepido.bsky.social El Intrepido rides again @el-intrepido.bsky.social · 10d
What IS legal in the UK in terms of self defense?

Throwing Hands?

I read there was a knifing recently - how can Brits protect themselves?!?
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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annalujz.bsky.social
Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and which—after initial banishment—reappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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worsted.bsky.social
Busy woman, Miss Todd.
Label on a box file: 'MURDER. 1958 all seen by Miss Todd'.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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rnib.bsky.social
Did you know that if you chant “add alt text” three times in the mirror, a social media manager appears behind you with a cat meme!
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
booksparrow.bsky.social
I think Vinted is trolling me:
Photograph of a listing on Vinted showing a white T-shirt on a green background with the text ‘hold on let me overthink this’
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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glennyrodge.bsky.social
Remember, the clocks go back one hour tonight, except for reform voters as you’re already living in late 1930s Germany.
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
booksparrow.bsky.social
On my way to #York for a work thing. Times amended since I bought my train ticket & I have over an hour to kill. Would like #coffee & somewhere to sit with a table before 9am. Does bluesky/ #skybrarian have any independent suggestions?
Photo of a train platform showing the sign for a booking office and keyboard saying the café is open. There is a train on the platform.
October 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
booksparrow.bsky.social
📄 Being a #Lesbian #Librarian, Collection Development in Lesbian
Librarianship, and #Archives as Lesbian spaces:
academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcont...

#OpenAccess #Glam #Library
academicworks.cuny.edu
October 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM