Wendy White
@wendysotonlib.bsky.social
Libraries, digital innovation, design, nature, art, photography, culture, heritage, place making.
The trains are badly delayed, but at least there is a nice view of clouds & moon bathed in sunset colour #TinyJoys #Sunset #TrainDelays
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The trains are badly delayed, but at least there is a nice view of clouds & moon bathed in sunset colour #TinyJoys #Sunset #TrainDelays
The trains are badly delayed, but at least there is a nice view of clouds & moon bathed in sunset colour #TinyJoys #Sunset #TrainDelays
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The trains are badly delayed, but at least there is a nice view of clouds & moon bathed in sunset colour #TinyJoys #Sunset #TrainDelays
October 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
October 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Blue skies ☀️ Red, yellow & orange leaves 🍁 🍂🍁Roses still blooming outside Hartley Library @unisouthampton.bsky.social 🥀📚#Libraries #BlueSkies #Autumn #Southampton
September 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Blue skies ☀️ Red, yellow & orange leaves 🍁 🍂🍁Roses still blooming outside Hartley Library @unisouthampton.bsky.social 🥀📚#Libraries #BlueSkies #Autumn #Southampton
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This year we're taking part in Heritage Open Days! We're offering 'behind the scenes' tours on Friday 12 September to include the strongrooms and conservation studios plus a pop-up exhibition of archival and rare book material reflecting Jane Austen's world. Pre-booking is essential.
Behind the Scenes at the Archives & Special Collections
What’s behind the locked doors? A glimpse behind the scenes... The tour will include the strongrooms and conservation studios. There will also be a pop-up exhibition of archival and rare book…
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August 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This year we're taking part in Heritage Open Days! We're offering 'behind the scenes' tours on Friday 12 September to include the strongrooms and conservation studios plus a pop-up exhibition of archival and rare book material reflecting Jane Austen's world. Pre-booking is essential.
Never mind unusual wet stuff falling out if the sky! Get on down to brilliant @hatfair.bsky.social #Winchester #HatFair #StreetTheatre
July 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Never mind unusual wet stuff falling out if the sky! Get on down to brilliant @hatfair.bsky.social #Winchester #HatFair #StreetTheatre
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Thanks to Rebecca Wade (Leeds), Jonathan Bush & Jie Xu (Durham), and Ailie O’Hagan (QUB) for joining #RLUKICIL to discuss the role that collections & archives play in helping their institutions meet EDI goals. Chaired by @wendysotonlib.bsky.social
📺 Watch a recording of this event @ bit.ly/ICILOND
📺 Watch a recording of this event @ bit.ly/ICILOND
June 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thanks to Rebecca Wade (Leeds), Jonathan Bush & Jie Xu (Durham), and Ailie O’Hagan (QUB) for joining #RLUKICIL to discuss the role that collections & archives play in helping their institutions meet EDI goals. Chaired by @wendysotonlib.bsky.social
📺 Watch a recording of this event @ bit.ly/ICILOND
📺 Watch a recording of this event @ bit.ly/ICILOND
May 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is terrible news www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
Trump fires longtime Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Carla Hayden has been the Librarian of Congress since 2016. She was the first woman and African American to hold the position.
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May 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is terrible news www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
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Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25
Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.
March 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25
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Recordings from the #RLUK25 Conference are now available to view at bit.ly/RLUKconf or on our Youtube Channel bit.ly/RLUK-YT
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March 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Recordings from the #RLUK25 Conference are now available to view at bit.ly/RLUKconf or on our Youtube Channel bit.ly/RLUK-YT
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A really nice piece of Special Collections digitisation from my excellent team: the annual reports of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
Inside Digital Scholarship - Digital Scholarship - LibGuides@Southampton at University of Southampton Library
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March 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A really nice piece of Special Collections digitisation from my excellent team: the annual reports of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...
#historyOfScience #acoustics
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We are very pleased to have Olha Krytska and Yana Fandikova from Sumy State University 🇺🇦 with us at #RLUK25
📸 with RLUK Chair @masudk.com Vice-Chair @janeharvell.bsky.social & @davidprosser.bsky.social & Kirsty Lingstadt
#RLUK stands with all our colleagues in Ukraine
📸 with RLUK Chair @masudk.com Vice-Chair @janeharvell.bsky.social & @davidprosser.bsky.social & Kirsty Lingstadt
#RLUK stands with all our colleagues in Ukraine
March 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We are very pleased to have Olha Krytska and Yana Fandikova from Sumy State University 🇺🇦 with us at #RLUK25
📸 with RLUK Chair @masudk.com Vice-Chair @janeharvell.bsky.social & @davidprosser.bsky.social & Kirsty Lingstadt
#RLUK stands with all our colleagues in Ukraine
📸 with RLUK Chair @masudk.com Vice-Chair @janeharvell.bsky.social & @davidprosser.bsky.social & Kirsty Lingstadt
#RLUK stands with all our colleagues in Ukraine
Very sunny start to #RLUK25 in Liverpool ☀️ Looking forward to lots of discussion around sector collaborations #Libraries
March 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Very sunny start to #RLUK25 in Liverpool ☀️ Looking forward to lots of discussion around sector collaborations #Libraries
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An aerial view of Southampton looking south along Above Bar and the High Street to the docks, the Bargate looking rather lost in the brave new world of post-war development. @HistoricalSoton @SotonianHistory @SotonStories @SouthamptonHid1
March 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An aerial view of Southampton looking south along Above Bar and the High Street to the docks, the Bargate looking rather lost in the brave new world of post-war development. @HistoricalSoton @SotonianHistory @SotonStories @SouthamptonHid1
Lovely to see @unisouthampton.bsky.social Highfield campus bathed in sunshine with carpets of flowers ☀️🌷 #Spring #Southampton
March 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lovely to see @unisouthampton.bsky.social Highfield campus bathed in sunshine with carpets of flowers ☀️🌷 #Spring #Southampton
Fantastic discussions about collaborative approaches to sector socio-technical challenges @ SCONUL conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social Bluesky thinking on a #bluesky sort of day ☀️ #libraries #technology #AI #DigitialTransformation
March 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fantastic discussions about collaborative approaches to sector socio-technical challenges @ SCONUL conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social Bluesky thinking on a #bluesky sort of day ☀️ #libraries #technology #AI #DigitialTransformation
February 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Colleen Shogan on LinkedIn: This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited. It… | 49 comments
This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited. It has been an honor serving as the 11th Archivist of the United States. I have zero… | 49 comments on LinkedIn
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February 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We are in a war on knowledge, a war on facts, and a war on truth. The atrocious sacking of the 11th Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (which she announced on her LinkedIn account last night) heralds a new era of burning of the books. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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📢 Next week, Parkes Outreach Fellow @charlieknight.bsky.social will give a talk at #LoveData25 on his work with the Theodor Hirschberg papers @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
The event is hybrid & open to all.
📅 Feb 12, 2:30pm (GMT)
📍 Highfield Campus & online
More info 👇
library.soton.ac.uk/...
The event is hybrid & open to all.
📅 Feb 12, 2:30pm (GMT)
📍 Highfield Campus & online
More info 👇
library.soton.ac.uk/...
LibGuides@Southampton: Love Data @ Soton: Home
LibGuides@Southampton: Love Data @ Soton: Home
library.soton.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📢 Next week, Parkes Outreach Fellow @charlieknight.bsky.social will give a talk at #LoveData25 on his work with the Theodor Hirschberg papers @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
The event is hybrid & open to all.
📅 Feb 12, 2:30pm (GMT)
📍 Highfield Campus & online
More info 👇
library.soton.ac.uk/...
The event is hybrid & open to all.
📅 Feb 12, 2:30pm (GMT)
📍 Highfield Campus & online
More info 👇
library.soton.ac.uk/...
Wonderful whales 🐳 @wincathedral.bsky.social
Great example of impact of site specific art installation #art #sculpture #climatechange
Great example of impact of site specific art installation #art #sculpture #climatechange
February 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Wonderful whales 🐳 @wincathedral.bsky.social
Great example of impact of site specific art installation #art #sculpture #climatechange
Great example of impact of site specific art installation #art #sculpture #climatechange
Really looking forward to meeting up with sector colleagues on the @theahua.bsky.social Professional Services Directors’ Programme. Always insightful & reflective thinking. Arrived to blue sky, golden hour & sunset in quick succession too! #AHUA #HE #HigherEducation #ReflectivePractice #Birmingham
January 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Really looking forward to meeting up with sector colleagues on the @theahua.bsky.social Professional Services Directors’ Programme. Always insightful & reflective thinking. Arrived to blue sky, golden hour & sunset in quick succession too! #AHUA #HE #HigherEducation #ReflectivePractice #Birmingham
Bournemouth to Christchurch harbour yesterday along beach & clifftops ☀️ It feels important to seize a sunny day at the moment! #walking #photography #beach
January 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Bournemouth to Christchurch harbour yesterday along beach & clifftops ☀️ It feels important to seize a sunny day at the moment! #walking #photography #beach