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Stéise
@booksparrow.bsky.social
Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️‍🌈 unapologetically femme
Pinned
Mood:
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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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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…
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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…
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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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?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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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Oh, to be a Fly...
In a Choirbook?

#ThingsInBooks
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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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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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If you can’t decide which way to go, maybe just sit down
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Don’t mind me… I’ll just be dreaming about the pink Pyrex I didn’t buy and am now regretting.
#midCentury
#vintage #retro
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just stop it M&S:
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?
March 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The work of May Morris (1862-1938) influential English embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor who supported and taught fellow female artists #WomensArt#WomensArt
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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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
🐦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
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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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...
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Tutting; eye rolling; pointed sighing; sarcasm; muttering passive aggressive comments to yourself; and a Paddington Bear hard stare.
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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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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Busy woman, Miss Todd.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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
I think Vinted is trolling me:
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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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
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?
October 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
📄 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