Retired layabout. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
Sussex, Britain
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Public libraries news is back publiclibrariesnews.com/2026… with support from @LibraryCampaign
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Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!
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This year we launched the biggest and hardest competition in Classical philology. The judges worked through a million words of commentary. The quality was eye-wateringly strong. Here are the winners of our inaugural competition! More facts to follow soon: antigonejournal.com/2026/09/…
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29 September ‘46
The two great planting months, October and November, are close upon us; and those #gardeners who desire the maximum of rewards with the minimum of labour would be well advised to concentrate upon the flowering shrubs and flowering trees. #gardening
Methods for conducting searches in healthcare reviews: A systematic review | Research Synthesis Methods | Cambridge Core - cup.org/4iCLRYo
Shocked to hear of Bob Usherwood’s death. The library profession desperately needs people like him sheffield.ac.uk/alumni/our-a…
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Google Books is becoming a desert. Its regress is real: the knowledge we were assured was both safely stored and freely available, which led libraries and schools to get rid of their books, has retreated into the shadows. The internet of 2026 knows less than the internet of 2010.
Reading a review of Colin Kidd’s Twilight of the Dons, reminded of @SussexUni’s nickname, Balliol-by-the-sea. Not quite so apt these days.
What on earth is a ‘data leader’? And why can our professional organisation’s publisher not find books to publish about librarianship by British librarians?
A must-read for CDOs and data leaders seeking to set a data-driven culture and empower staff to use data efficiently, Why Data Culture Matters by award-winning data leader Marion Shaw is out now.
Order here: ow.ly/GhpO50ZyTjU
#CDO #DataCulture #AIStrategy
CILIP has an interim CEO. She must be given a chance to settle in, but unsure whether to be reassured or alarmed that she comes to us from “turning around an organisation in genuine financial and operating crisis”.
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After Jason Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.
retractionwatch.com/2026/07/…
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Check out my new Substack. Things are heating up for Labour as are jobs lost over climate alarmism. Unite Branches Threaten Labour with Disaffiliation over Net Zero open.substack.com/pub/davidj…
"Fantastic Banner! It's a message that the movement needs to hear." @PaulEmbery
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This is wonderful. An interactive guide to the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships.
Created by a Wharton prof using AI:
catalogue-of-ships.netlify.a…
Library of Search Strategy Resources: sites.google.com/view/search… An interesting initiative that I hadn’t heard of before. They don’t say what their relationship is to other similar projects, such as the ISSG Search Filter resource sites.google.com/a/york.ac.u…
