Colette Townend
@colettet.bsky.social
Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) 🏴
Great day coming up at Bookseller crow! 6th Dec. Lots of authors visiting crystal palace to sign books! Info here booksellercrow.co.uk/event/christ...
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Great day coming up at Bookseller crow! 6th Dec. Lots of authors visiting crystal palace to sign books! Info here booksellercrow.co.uk/event/christ...
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We will be flogging mags, t-shirts, totes, badges and more this Saturday.
Come and find our table at Brixton Library. 12pm kick off. Pints after, probably.
Come and find our table at Brixton Library. 12pm kick off. Pints after, probably.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We will be flogging mags, t-shirts, totes, badges and more this Saturday.
Come and find our table at Brixton Library. 12pm kick off. Pints after, probably.
Come and find our table at Brixton Library. 12pm kick off. Pints after, probably.
This Saturday!
Coming up at Brixton Library @stanchionbooks.bsky.social LONDON FOOTBALL BOOK MARKET Sat 15th Nov stalls include football books, zines, comics and replica kits from @theblizzard.bsky.social @lowerblock.bsky.social OOF, Pitch Publishing and much more! FREE entry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This Saturday!
Excited to be speaking at EUROLIS next week about routes to inclusive participation in library services, such as @wikimediauk.bsky.social partnerships, zine & book fairs, self published & small press works in library stock and more!
📚 EUROLIS Seminar 2025
Open Libraries. Equity Across and Beyond the Shelves
🗓️ Fri 21 Nov | 🕘 10–4:30 | 📍 Europe House, London
Join library professionals from across Europe to explore inclusion, openness & innovation in libraries.
🎟️ Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eurolis-seminar-2025
Open Libraries. Equity Across and Beyond the Shelves
🗓️ Fri 21 Nov | 🕘 10–4:30 | 📍 Europe House, London
Join library professionals from across Europe to explore inclusion, openness & innovation in libraries.
🎟️ Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eurolis-seminar-2025
eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Excited to be speaking at EUROLIS next week about routes to inclusive participation in library services, such as @wikimediauk.bsky.social partnerships, zine & book fairs, self published & small press works in library stock and more!
📚 EUROLIS Seminar 2025
Open Libraries. Equity Across and Beyond the Shelves
🗓️ Fri 21 Nov | 🕘 10–4:30 | 📍 Europe House, London
Join library professionals from across Europe to explore inclusion, openness & innovation in libraries.
🎟️ Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eurolis-seminar-2025
Open Libraries. Equity Across and Beyond the Shelves
🗓️ Fri 21 Nov | 🕘 10–4:30 | 📍 Europe House, London
Join library professionals from across Europe to explore inclusion, openness & innovation in libraries.
🎟️ Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eurolis-seminar-2025
eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📚 EUROLIS Seminar 2025
Open Libraries. Equity Across and Beyond the Shelves
🗓️ Fri 21 Nov | 🕘 10–4:30 | 📍 Europe House, London
Join library professionals from across Europe to explore inclusion, openness & innovation in libraries.
🎟️ Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eurolis-seminar-2025
Open Libraries. Equity Across and Beyond the Shelves
🗓️ Fri 21 Nov | 🕘 10–4:30 | 📍 Europe House, London
Join library professionals from across Europe to explore inclusion, openness & innovation in libraries.
🎟️ Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eurolis-seminar-2025
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Coming up at Brixton Library @stanchionbooks.bsky.social LONDON FOOTBALL BOOK MARKET Sat 15th Nov stalls include football books, zines, comics and replica kits from @theblizzard.bsky.social @lowerblock.bsky.social OOF, Pitch Publishing and much more! FREE entry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Coming up at Brixton Library @stanchionbooks.bsky.social LONDON FOOTBALL BOOK MARKET Sat 15th Nov stalls include football books, zines, comics and replica kits from @theblizzard.bsky.social @lowerblock.bsky.social OOF, Pitch Publishing and much more! FREE entry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
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Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November.
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
@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
Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November.
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
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Amid misinformation, Wikipedia's volunteer community stands out. Editors uphold neutrality, verify sources, and log every edit.
Without corporate ads, its scale and transparent governance make it a beacon of trust. Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/7zfT
Without corporate ads, its scale and transparent governance make it a beacon of trust. Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/7zfT
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Amid misinformation, Wikipedia's volunteer community stands out. Editors uphold neutrality, verify sources, and log every edit.
Without corporate ads, its scale and transparent governance make it a beacon of trust. Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/7zfT
Without corporate ads, its scale and transparent governance make it a beacon of trust. Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/7zfT
Any recommendations for any books nominated in the Carnegie’s (or anything published in the past year) for under 2s? carnegies.co.uk/illustration...
The Carnegies
carnegies.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Any recommendations for any books nominated in the Carnegie’s (or anything published in the past year) for under 2s? carnegies.co.uk/illustration...
Are you a cataloguer or interested in cataloguing and have a view on whether LCSH is fit for purpose in a UK context? CILIP MDG @cilipmdg.bsky.social are hosting a Worldcafe event (a big meeting basically!) to discuss ideas at Wellcome Library in London Wed 26th Nov www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
CILIP: the library and information association
www.cilip.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Are you a cataloguer or interested in cataloguing and have a view on whether LCSH is fit for purpose in a UK context? CILIP MDG @cilipmdg.bsky.social are hosting a Worldcafe event (a big meeting basically!) to discuss ideas at Wellcome Library in London Wed 26th Nov www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
Would you be interested in starting a Wikipedia editing meetup at your library? I’ll be doing a lightning talk on how we run our Lambeth Libraries meetups at the Wikimedia UK online community celebration, Sat 15th Nov - if it inspires you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-wik...
Online Wikimedia UK 2025 Community Celebration
A celebration of the Wikimedia UK Community with a showcase of their work and presenting the Wikimedian of the Year Award
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Would you be interested in starting a Wikipedia editing meetup at your library? I’ll be doing a lightning talk on how we run our Lambeth Libraries meetups at the Wikimedia UK online community celebration, Sat 15th Nov - if it inspires you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-wik...
Another busy Wikipedia meet-up at my library this evening, wow! Lots of talk about reliable sources, AI, watch pages, phobia pages and project pages. Come to our next Brixton meetup Mon 1 Dec 2025 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/...
Meetup/Brixton/12 - Meta-Wiki
meta.wikimedia.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Another busy Wikipedia meet-up at my library this evening, wow! Lots of talk about reliable sources, AI, watch pages, phobia pages and project pages. Come to our next Brixton meetup Mon 1 Dec 2025 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/...
Delve into Lambeth's Black history with our Wikipedia edit-a-thon this coming Monday 20th Oct at Lambeth Archives, still a few spaces! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lambeth-bl... @wikimediauk.bsky.social #BHM2025
Lambeth Black History - Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
If you like learning about and contributing to the recording of Black history in your community then this is a great place to get involved.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Delve into Lambeth's Black history with our Wikipedia edit-a-thon this coming Monday 20th Oct at Lambeth Archives, still a few spaces! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lambeth-bl... @wikimediauk.bsky.social #BHM2025
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Last night I went to a talk by housing campaigners @kwajo.bsky.social and Peter Apps at Brixton Library about the housing crisis in the UK, and wrote about it for @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/10/hous...
Housing campaigners Kwajo Tweneboa and Peter Apps hold packed Brixton Library talk
Authors Kwajo Tweneboa and Peter Apps spoke last night to a packed audience at Brixton Library about the housing crisis affecting London and the UK. Apps is the author of the books Homesick and Sho…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Last night I went to a talk by housing campaigners @kwajo.bsky.social and Peter Apps at Brixton Library about the housing crisis in the UK, and wrote about it for @brixtonbuzz.bsky.social www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/10/hous...
Coming up at Brixton Library @stanchionbooks.bsky.social LONDON FOOTBALL BOOK MARKET Sat 15th Nov stalls include football books, zines, comics and replica kits from @theblizzard.bsky.social @lowerblock.bsky.social OOF, Pitch Publishing and much more! FREE entry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Coming up at Brixton Library @stanchionbooks.bsky.social LONDON FOOTBALL BOOK MARKET Sat 15th Nov stalls include football books, zines, comics and replica kits from @theblizzard.bsky.social @lowerblock.bsky.social OOF, Pitch Publishing and much more! FREE entry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-foo...
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Even if I didn’t have a personal interest in librarians, I would be urging all of you with access to iPlayer to watch this documentary www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... It’s about the censorship of books in US school libraries but also about how right wing money, not facts, is influencing politics.
Storyville - The Librarians
A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Even if I didn’t have a personal interest in librarians, I would be urging all of you with access to iPlayer to watch this documentary www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... It’s about the censorship of books in US school libraries but also about how right wing money, not facts, is influencing politics.
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Our #GreenLibraries Conference is less than 20 days away and tickets are going fast. Join us for a day packed with inspiring talks, practical insights, and powerful discussions about sustainability in libraries. Explore the full programme and book TODAY: www.cilip.org.uk/page/greenli...
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our #GreenLibraries Conference is less than 20 days away and tickets are going fast. Join us for a day packed with inspiring talks, practical insights, and powerful discussions about sustainability in libraries. Explore the full programme and book TODAY: www.cilip.org.uk/page/greenli...
This was such a great couple of days at TNA! @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy It was really great to bring add knowledge of authority control and Wikidata to a team of coders and digital preservationalists ! A wonderful way to learn new skills www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/resear...
Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of photography
Researchers Giorgia Tolfo and Katherine Howells reflect on their recent project focusing on the metadata in our photographic copyright collections.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This was such a great couple of days at TNA! @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy It was really great to bring add knowledge of authority control and Wikidata to a team of coders and digital preservationalists ! A wonderful way to learn new skills www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/resear...
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data www.ft.com/content/d101... (£)
#encryption #e2ee #masssurveillance
#encryption #e2ee #masssurveillance
October 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data www.ft.com/content/d101... (£)
#encryption #e2ee #masssurveillance
#encryption #e2ee #masssurveillance
Excited for our Black History Month programme this month - highlights include Rita Keegan 23 Oct, Wikipedia editathon 20 Oct, zine making 29 Oct & especially looking forward to the launch of our Black Interest Core Collection www.lambeth.gov.uk/black-histor... @wikimediauk.bsky.social #Lambeth
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Excited for our Black History Month programme this month - highlights include Rita Keegan 23 Oct, Wikipedia editathon 20 Oct, zine making 29 Oct & especially looking forward to the launch of our Black Interest Core Collection www.lambeth.gov.uk/black-histor... @wikimediauk.bsky.social #Lambeth
At Lambeth Archives we are recruiting a Borough Archivist, details: effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share!
Borough Archivist
Borough Archivist- REF 2499 PO1: £43,308 pa rising in annual increments to £45,852 pa inc Part-Time (27.5 Hours) Permanent Contract
effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
At Lambeth Archives we are recruiting a Borough Archivist, details: effe.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share!
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Celebrating NAG's 40th anniversary, the next of our "Spotlight on the Chair" blogs is live with our 2017-2020 Chair, Alison Harland:
nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-...
@bookgirla.bsky.social #NAGstalgia
nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-...
@bookgirla.bsky.social #NAGstalgia
September 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Celebrating NAG's 40th anniversary, the next of our "Spotlight on the Chair" blogs is live with our 2017-2020 Chair, Alison Harland:
nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-...
@bookgirla.bsky.social #NAGstalgia
nag.org.uk/blog/chairs-...
@bookgirla.bsky.social #NAGstalgia
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Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as a leading officer & inform the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers in UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as a leading officer & inform the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers in UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...
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Black History Month all-dayer at Clapham library
Brixton Immortals Domino Club is hosting a marathon free Black History Month extravaganza and celebration of Black heritage on Saturday 25 October at Clapham Library. A cultural cornerstone of Brixton since the 1970s, the Immortals are inviting…
Brixton Immortals Domino Club is hosting a marathon free Black History Month extravaganza and celebration of Black heritage on Saturday 25 October at Clapham Library. A cultural cornerstone of Brixton since the 1970s, the Immortals are inviting…
Black History Month all-dayer at Clapham library
Brixton Immortals Domino Club is hosting a marathon free Black History Month extravaganza and celebration of Black heritage on Saturday 25 October at Clapham Library. A cultural cornerstone of Brixton since the 1970s, the Immortals are inviting local organisations and businesses to hire a stall at the event’s market and cultural exhibition for just £30 per table. The deadline for booking is Thursday 25 September.
brixtonblog.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Black History Month all-dayer at Clapham library
Brixton Immortals Domino Club is hosting a marathon free Black History Month extravaganza and celebration of Black heritage on Saturday 25 October at Clapham Library. A cultural cornerstone of Brixton since the 1970s, the Immortals are inviting…
Brixton Immortals Domino Club is hosting a marathon free Black History Month extravaganza and celebration of Black heritage on Saturday 25 October at Clapham Library. A cultural cornerstone of Brixton since the 1970s, the Immortals are inviting…