Peter Barr
@tweeterbarr.bsky.social
Head of Content & Collections, University of Sheffield Library. These views, though, are my own
The old Arts & Humanities Librarian Twitter Header...
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The old Arts & Humanities Librarian Twitter Header...
#terrorinthelibrary all under the guise of 'engagement' with Sheffield Centre for the History of the Gothic
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#terrorinthelibrary all under the guise of 'engagement' with Sheffield Centre for the History of the Gothic
Beginning with my abortive attempt to run a 2018 World Cup of Literature. Here is a group match between Argentina and Iceland refereed by the Biomed Central Turtle
(the competition never got out of the group stage cos I had made it far too complicated and it didn't get the hoped for twitter pop)
(the competition never got out of the group stage cos I had made it far too complicated and it didn't get the hoped for twitter pop)
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Beginning with my abortive attempt to run a 2018 World Cup of Literature. Here is a group match between Argentina and Iceland refereed by the Biomed Central Turtle
(the competition never got out of the group stage cos I had made it far too complicated and it didn't get the hoped for twitter pop)
(the competition never got out of the group stage cos I had made it far too complicated and it didn't get the hoped for twitter pop)
Back on the picket line with Library colleagues and @sheffielducu.bsky.social
It's nice to wear shorts and all but It's a testament to how consistently mismanaged this place is that we've had to do this during blizzards and heatwaves
It's nice to wear shorts and all but It's a testament to how consistently mismanaged this place is that we've had to do this during blizzards and heatwaves
April 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Back on the picket line with Library colleagues and @sheffielducu.bsky.social
It's nice to wear shorts and all but It's a testament to how consistently mismanaged this place is that we've had to do this during blizzards and heatwaves
It's nice to wear shorts and all but It's a testament to how consistently mismanaged this place is that we've had to do this during blizzards and heatwaves
Can you play "Everday AI writes the book" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
#researchintegrity
#uksg2025
#researchintegrity
#uksg2025
April 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Can you play "Everday AI writes the book" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
#researchintegrity
#uksg2025
#researchintegrity
#uksg2025
And here's a metaphor for the funding model of British higher education
March 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
And here's a metaphor for the funding model of British higher education
Even if they want to be out of selling books, even if they ultimately don't need libraries and want to transition to be being a data services company, their decision to trash the old world before they were in a position to move to the new seems a massive strategic error
March 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Even if they want to be out of selling books, even if they ultimately don't need libraries and want to transition to be being a data services company, their decision to trash the old world before they were in a position to move to the new seems a massive strategic error
I get it, you're not allowed to say that it's cheese
February 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I get it, you're not allowed to say that it's cheese
Just clearing out my google drive, and found this 2017 photo. Showing we were massively ahead of the AI curve at Sheffield
January 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Just clearing out my google drive, and found this 2017 photo. Showing we were massively ahead of the AI curve at Sheffield
Give me some of that sweet...
January 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Give me some of that sweet...