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Victoria Parkinson
@vlparkinson.bsky.social
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Sometimes a metadata and systems librarian in a London uni. Mostly playing board games, reading sci-fi and fantasy, and crafting--sewing, crochet, embroidery. Learning how to do cryptic crosswords and to knit.
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vlparkinson.bsky.social
Feeling festive as I've just sent round the giftees for the work Secret Santa 🥰 For the last few years I've been using the excellent planner from @mael.dev, which uses a clever link and is beautifully simple. It does exactly what I want for Secret Santa and no more, and I love it
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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aboutness.bsky.social
The American Library Association Core Subject Analysis Committee's Working Group on Local Headings seeks to survey libraries, archives, museums and associated institutions about their involvement in the work of revising subjects, genres, and other authority data in their local catalogs.
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
Sign in a LIBRARY: Fuck social media. marry books. kill AI.
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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ciliplgbtq.bsky.social
📄Chaper 'The Hidden History of Queer Subject Access' from 📗'Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front'
edited by K.R. Roberto
#Cataloguing
#Cataloging
#Metadata
#CritLib
#LGBTQ

tinyurl.com/mr3tarfd
Radical Cataloging
This collection of critical and scholarly essays addresses the state of cataloging in the world of librarianship. The contributors, including Sanford Berman, Thomas Mann, and numerous front-line libra...
books.google.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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cilipmdg.bsky.social
@cilipmdg.bsky.social invites participants to a WorldCafe Event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on the topic of Subject Analysis & LCSH within the current metadata landscape.

Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
https://tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
vlparkinson.bsky.social
An amazing thread about someone saving two lives via bone marrow and stem cell donations
itsalkitching.bsky.social Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · Sep 20
Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).
September 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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cilipmdg.bsky.social
Join us on Wednesday 3rd September from 2pm (BST) for our AGM Event with a Cataloguing Ethics Panel Discussion.
Hybrid event: in-person at the University of Manchester, or online via Teams.
Full details at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #cataloguing #cataloging #ethics #critcat #event
https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1958692
August 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
vlparkinson.bsky.social
Who's going to #igelu2025? I'm getting to go in person (woo, Siena!) and there are so many good sessions. Also a ton on AI--I'm interested to hear how people are evaluating the "research assistant" and if they've turned it on.
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
“I’m just saying we’d collect more nectar if we weren’t in meetings all day”

From the new Private Eye, out now.
July 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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scalywager.bsky.social
I’m looking for an accessible reading suggestion for non-librarians to better understand what an “archive” is and is not (vs a digital collection, a catalog, etc.) Any ideas? 🙏🏻 #DH #critlib
July 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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blueshift24.bsky.social
#FuckAI
July 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
May 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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cilipmdg.bsky.social
📢Call for papers for the MDG Conference 2026 (11-13 March) #MetaFutures
#Cataloguers, #indexers and other #metadata specialists have a significant role to play in the future of information services and it’s something worth shouting about!
Full details: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201298&id=1113783
May 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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arlis-uk.bsky.social
Applications to the ARLIS UK & Ireland Global Majority Art Librarianship Scholarship for the 25/26 academic year are now open!

Full scholarship guidelines and the application form are available on our website:

Please share widely 📚

#Librarianship #Librarysky #Artsky
In-image text reads: ARLIS UK & Ireland is pleased to open applications to the ‘fees only’ scholarship to an individual undertaking a UK accredited Library, Information or Archive studies postgraduate qualification as a small first step towards addressing the ongoing under-representation of Black library workers and library workers of colour within art librarianship.
May 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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marccold.bsky.social
TFW your company motto could either belong to a library vendor or a blackmailing syndicate
I'm holding a business card. The back reads: "Because what is known must be shared.®"
May 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
vlparkinson.bsky.social
If anyone in #Leicestershire is looking for a dog trainer, my brother-in-law offers a range of training from the basics to more exciting scent work. His own dog is an absolute sweetheart.
📘 www.facebook.com/share/1JgTca...
📷 www.instagram.com/st.georgedog...

#DogTraining #ScentWork
Text in image reads: St George Dog Training, build a better bond with your canine companion. 18 years of experience training/owning multiple dogs. Obedience, behaviour modification (reactivity, resource guarding, excessive barking, etc), puppy/adult dogs, scent training. Rewards based, science/ethically led training. Send your enquiries to st.georgedogtraining@gmail.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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ahaire.bsky.social
Louise Savage’s presentation, “Unsafe in Safe Spaces: an exploration of the workplace experiences of female library workers” is literally taking my breath away. Incredibly powerful, uncomfortable and scary. Thank you, Louise. #CALC25
May 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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bobbinewman.bsky.social
Hear ye! Hear Ye! The new Disability in LIS Journal (DisLIS) is now actively recruiting media reviews (books, movies, websites, what have you) of materials that have disability as a major component, from people who have experience with that disability. cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/
Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) | Journals | Minnesota State University, Mankato
<p><i>Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) </i> is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All m...
cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu
May 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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bernietranders.bsky.social
Parliament is going to have a debate on self-ID on 19th May.

If your MP is supportive of trans rights, it’s really important that you write to them to ask them to be there.

The transphobes will turn out in force - we need to make sure allies do too.
A screenshot of an email that says: Dear Arthur Webber, Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.”. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159 The debate is scheduled for 19 May 2025.
May 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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colmuseums.bsky.social
Dreaming of a slower pace of life? Welcome to Georgian Property Listings.

We’ve raided the archives and dusted off a set of charming 19th-century prints showing rural cottages near Colchester — and imagined what they'd look like as estate listings from the past. 🧵👇
April 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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vaginamuseum.bsky.social
A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.
The Vagina Museum Board of Trustees response to the UK Supreme Court ruling In light of the UK Supreme Court ruling, the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum wish to express their unequivocal support of and solidarity with their trans staff, volunteers, community partners, visitors and wider audience. From the outset, the Vagina Museum has always been trans inclusive. An important part of its mission around spreading knowledge and raising awareness of gynaecological anatomy and health has been to challenge normative assumptions around our bodies and how they may or may not be connected to experiences of gender, gender expression and broader sexuality. In doing so, we highlight that sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and other characteristics related to sexual identity exist in various different combinations and their relationship to one another is never clear cut. What is clear to us is that everyone, regardless of their body parts, are deserving of human rights, dignity and the power to identity as they wish to. Just as we act as a forum for women’s reproductive health and rights from a feminist, inclusive and intersectional perspective; we will continue to advocate for trans+, non-binary and queer communities and rights. We cannot talk about feminism unless our feminism includes trans folks. We cannot talk about reproductive rights without trans rights. We cannot advocate for human rights without trans rights. The ruling comes amidst an increasingly frightening climate for trans people in the UK and globally. We will continue to abide by our values, and ensure that the Vagina Museum remains a space in which trans people are included, welcomed and celebrated. In solidarity.
April 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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violetbfox.bsky.social
Thursday April 24th: join me for a free webinar, "Working Together to Improve Disability and Medical Subject Headings." Thanks to Minitex for a terrific webinar series focusing on #critcat collective action! 📚 #MedLibs 🦀 minitex.umn.edu/events/webin...
Working Together to Improve Disability and Medical Subject Headings | Minitex
The library profession has undergone a sea change in controlled vocabulary in the past five years—cataloging librarians are working together to improve Library of Congress Subject Headings and rethink...
minitex.umn.edu
April 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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emmabooth.bsky.social
Currently reading the draft 2025 edition of the International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) from the @iflaglobal.bsky.social Cataloguing Section - #cataloguers and #metadata professionals worldwide are invited to review and comment on the 2025 ICP by Friday 16th May see: www.ifla.org/news/interna...
Just launched: International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) worldwide review
The ICP working group is proud to present the revised version of the International Cataloguing Principles (ICP), approved in 2025 by the IFLA Cataloguing Section. A worldwide revie...
www.ifla.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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readaway.bsky.social
We're still looking for volunteers for a working group on local authorities to address the recent #LCSH changes to Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali. The working group aims to provide guidance on how libraries can either change their subject display or create local authorities #critcat
April 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Excuses. An older comic.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, there's an excerpt from an email that says "Re: New Tasks. Thanks for your email. Please be advised that I may take longer to answer emails because I'm swamped." And there's a person sitting happily on a rock, deep in a red maple swamp, with a frog and ferns and such. Another email excerpt says "I'm just really bogged down." The person is sitting on a bog boardwalk, surrounded by bog and fen fauna like an arethusa orchid, a pitcher plant, larch and spruce, and a canada jay. The email says "I'm not out of the woods yet." The person is happily wandering through the forest, looking at lichens and mushrooms. The email says "Sorry, it's crunch time." The person is kneeling in a forest, watching a red squirrel crunch away at a pine cone.
April 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM