Renee
@saoghalbeag.bsky.social
Librarian, migrant, reader, small towner, exvangelical
Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig
👏 FUND 👏 LIBRARIES 👏
🌊 Ged 's fhad a-mach Barraigh, ruigear e
Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig
👏 FUND 👏 LIBRARIES 👏
🌊 Ged 's fhad a-mach Barraigh, ruigear e
What a rubbish week. I don’t understand people. Here’s a photo of a wallaby joey in my mum’s backyard to fix the universe.
October 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What a rubbish week. I don’t understand people. Here’s a photo of a wallaby joey in my mum’s backyard to fix the universe.
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This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England
Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No clue where I am but a’ chaora mhòr have been here before me 🐑
September 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
No clue where I am but a’ chaora mhòr have been here before me 🐑
A’ dol dhachaigh / going home and what a day for it. For future reference there is time between bus & ferry for Cult coffee & Ullapool bookshop, bringing the holiday book count to 6 📚 #islandlife #hebrides #librarianlife #reader #booklover
September 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A’ dol dhachaigh / going home and what a day for it. For future reference there is time between bus & ferry for Cult coffee & Ullapool bookshop, bringing the holiday book count to 6 📚 #islandlife #hebrides #librarianlife #reader #booklover
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Am bu chaomh leibh tachartas a chur air dòigh ann an 2025? Tha sgeama nan Tabhartasan Beaga a-nis fosgailte. Le taic o Bhòrd na Gàidhlig, gheibhear suas ri £500 gus tachartas a tha a’ comharrachadh na Gàidhlig a chur air dòigh.
seachdainnagaidhlig.scot/seachdain-na...
seachdainnagaidhlig.scot/seachdain-na...
September 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Am bu chaomh leibh tachartas a chur air dòigh ann an 2025? Tha sgeama nan Tabhartasan Beaga a-nis fosgailte. Le taic o Bhòrd na Gàidhlig, gheibhear suas ri £500 gus tachartas a tha a’ comharrachadh na Gàidhlig a chur air dòigh.
seachdainnagaidhlig.scot/seachdain-na...
seachdainnagaidhlig.scot/seachdain-na...
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Want to host an event in 2026? Our Small Grants are open now. Supported by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, our grants offer up to £500—to help you put on an event that celebrates the Gaelic language. We have two information sessions coming up at 7pm on Wed 8 Oct & Thurs 23 Oct—book a session here: buff.ly/vYQ9PA1
September 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Want to host an event in 2026? Our Small Grants are open now. Supported by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, our grants offer up to £500—to help you put on an event that celebrates the Gaelic language. We have two information sessions coming up at 7pm on Wed 8 Oct & Thurs 23 Oct—book a session here: buff.ly/vYQ9PA1
In Munich airport and the random woman sitting beside me is a former Leòdhasach. Because of course. #islandlife
September 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In Munich airport and the random woman sitting beside me is a former Leòdhasach. Because of course. #islandlife
Taking a break from paint and plaster and statistical returns to squeeze the last few drops of August out of the year and remind myself that it wasn’t that long ago I was wishing and hoping for this life ❤️
August 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Taking a break from paint and plaster and statistical returns to squeeze the last few drops of August out of the year and remind myself that it wasn’t that long ago I was wishing and hoping for this life ❤️
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Calling all the UK public library workers! 📚 Seeking participants for UCL MA Library and Information Studies research project
#LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter
#LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research
#LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter
#LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research
July 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Calling all the UK public library workers! 📚 Seeking participants for UCL MA Library and Information Studies research project
#LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter
#LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research
#LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter
#LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research
Page 31 and already enraged. Why is English (which spreads like the plague) so threatened by other languages?
July 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Page 31 and already enraged. Why is English (which spreads like the plague) so threatened by other languages?
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As an immigrant to this country, it is *already the case* that you cannot access public funds (incl. disability benefits) at any point up to gaining indefinite leave to remain.
For me, that was more than ten years of student & spouse visas, healthcare surcharges, a Life in the UK test, etc
For me, that was more than ten years of student & spouse visas, healthcare surcharges, a Life in the UK test, etc
Quite apart from the obvious xenophobia and cruelty, you'd have thought that this lot would have learnt from Windrush what requiring vulnerable people to provide evidence of citizenship leads to. But perhaps they just don't care.
Ban foreigners from claiming disability benefits, say Tories
Kemi Badenoch makes welfare a dividing line with Labour and Reform
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As an immigrant to this country, it is *already the case* that you cannot access public funds (incl. disability benefits) at any point up to gaining indefinite leave to remain.
For me, that was more than ten years of student & spouse visas, healthcare surcharges, a Life in the UK test, etc
For me, that was more than ten years of student & spouse visas, healthcare surcharges, a Life in the UK test, etc
So impressed with my wee team pulling this together for the summer. Next year we’ll get it out on time 🙈 but… nì clachan beaga tric carn mòr uaireigin issuu.com/leabharlainn... #libraries
2025 Summer Library Programme
School holidays are never boring at Western Isles Libraries - our 2025 programme is now OPEN for bookings! Visit Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/western-isles-libraries-34058303871
issuu.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So impressed with my wee team pulling this together for the summer. Next year we’ll get it out on time 🙈 but… nì clachan beaga tric carn mòr uaireigin issuu.com/leabharlainn... #libraries
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Call for participation!
Divergent Minds in the Archive is exploring how archives can be more accessible for neurodivergent people.
Find out more and apply to take part in our workshop: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...
Divergent Minds in the Archive is exploring how archives can be more accessible for neurodivergent people.
Find out more and apply to take part in our workshop: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...
June 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Call for participation!
Divergent Minds in the Archive is exploring how archives can be more accessible for neurodivergent people.
Find out more and apply to take part in our workshop: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...
Divergent Minds in the Archive is exploring how archives can be more accessible for neurodivergent people.
Find out more and apply to take part in our workshop: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...
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📚Can you help?
There’s nothing our Librarian, Partnership and Governance Lisa enjoys more than receiving a long lost copy of AARL and we are down to the last missing volume...
Do you have AARL Volume 23 Issue 3 1992 sitting on your shelves? If you do, we would love to hear from you.
There’s nothing our Librarian, Partnership and Governance Lisa enjoys more than receiving a long lost copy of AARL and we are down to the last missing volume...
Do you have AARL Volume 23 Issue 3 1992 sitting on your shelves? If you do, we would love to hear from you.
June 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📚Can you help?
There’s nothing our Librarian, Partnership and Governance Lisa enjoys more than receiving a long lost copy of AARL and we are down to the last missing volume...
Do you have AARL Volume 23 Issue 3 1992 sitting on your shelves? If you do, we would love to hear from you.
There’s nothing our Librarian, Partnership and Governance Lisa enjoys more than receiving a long lost copy of AARL and we are down to the last missing volume...
Do you have AARL Volume 23 Issue 3 1992 sitting on your shelves? If you do, we would love to hear from you.
One of those afternoons that reminds me why I love my job-visiting Stornoway care homes to meet staff & talk libraries ❤️ Impressed by how much staff care about their residents. We had some excellent chats about reading, local history, archives @MemoriesScot & Gaelic
a man and woman are dancing in a living room .
ALT: a man and woman are dancing in a living room .
media.tenor.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
One of those afternoons that reminds me why I love my job-visiting Stornoway care homes to meet staff & talk libraries ❤️ Impressed by how much staff care about their residents. We had some excellent chats about reading, local history, archives @MemoriesScot & Gaelic
All young people deserve better. So much for closing the attainment gap - getting rid of qualified librarians will serve only to widen it
EXCLUSIVE
'The young people of Glasgow deserve much better' 👇
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2526111...
@jamesmcenaney.bsky.social
'The young people of Glasgow deserve much better' 👇
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2526111...
@jamesmcenaney.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
All young people deserve better. So much for closing the attainment gap - getting rid of qualified librarians will serve only to widen it
Leughadh Didòmhnaich / Sunday reading
June 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Leughadh Didòmhnaich / Sunday reading
Hard to get your head around when budgets are being cut. I like this bit though “public sector reform (by) cutting “back office costs” to redirect money to the frontline”
As long as our government remembers that libraries are part of the frontline.
#libraries #publiclibraries #localgov #scotgov
As long as our government remembers that libraries are part of the frontline.
#libraries #publiclibraries #localgov #scotgov
NEW: Scotland's civil service has reached a "record" size, according to Scottish Government figures
Scottish civil service reaches 'record' size, figures show
www.thenational.scot
June 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Hard to get your head around when budgets are being cut. I like this bit though “public sector reform (by) cutting “back office costs” to redirect money to the frontline”
As long as our government remembers that libraries are part of the frontline.
#libraries #publiclibraries #localgov #scotgov
As long as our government remembers that libraries are part of the frontline.
#libraries #publiclibraries #localgov #scotgov
As a librarian who has inherited archives that are not only not digitised but also uncatalogued, this is very real.
The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this
June 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
As a librarian who has inherited archives that are not only not digitised but also uncatalogued, this is very real.
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Here I am stuck in the CoOp with you
June 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Here I am stuck in the CoOp with you
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No-one's brain cells are getting out of this era alive
Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence fed the JFK files into an AI program, asking it to see if there was anything that should remain classified.
https://trib.al/AqWNKuR
https://trib.al/AqWNKuR
Gabbard Admits to Asking AI What to Classify in JFK Files
Gabbard revealed that she fed tens of thousands of documents about the JFK assassination into an AI program for review.
trib.al
June 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
No-one's brain cells are getting out of this era alive
