UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social Withdrawn from library stock / garden lopper / woodchopper / 🇪🇺🏴🇺🇦 politics / proud european / birdwatcher / old cynic with a joyful 🐈 Carmarthenshire, Wales
Dr Laura Molloy @lmhatii.bsky.social FRSA. Artist. Senior research lead @CODATA-ISC, Paris. PhD @OIIOxford & @TheRuskin; visual art, archives, open research data, digital preservation & curation. Opinions mine. 🏴🇪🇺 Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@LM_HATII
The Serious Fun Stuff Librarian @seriousfunstuff.bsky.social Resources for libraries, librarians, and fans of funky library stuff. Have fun and learn stuff!
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Yasmin Khan @yasmincurates.bsky.social Culture | Arts | Museums pro #FreelancersMatter 💪 Views mine
Patient Information Forum @pifonline.bsky.social PIF is the independent voice of health information. We promote access to trusted, evidence-based health information for all. We run the PIF TICK – the independent credibility mark for health information.
www.pifonline.org.uk www.piftick.org.uk
Ballast Hills Burial Ground @ballasthillsbg.bsky.social BHBG: A project unlocking the past, enjoying the present and planning for the future.
Led by Newcastle University; funded by AHRC's Curiosity Award.
Find out more on our blog: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/ballast-hills/
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association @jaliajournal.bsky.social Publishes research on library science and information research and practice within the Australian and Southern Asia Pacific regions.
Current issue is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ualj21/current
Mauricio Delfin @maudelfin.bsky.social Artist, researcher and Co-Director of Culture and Arts Policy Institute @cultureapolicy.bsky.social / UNESCO/EU Expert Facility Member / #opengov #culturalpolicy #openGLAM #OpenCulture
Nomad RDC @nomad-rdc.bsky.social Nomad is a research led design team. We are fascinated by people centred design and travel all over the UK and Ireland in search of interesting projects.
Website - https://www.nomad-rdc.com/
Blog - https://nomadrdc.wordpress.com/
Anna Hartley @annahartley.bsky.social Executive Director of Public Health and Communities, Barnsley Council. Obsessive reader, slow runner and enthusiastic cook. Live in Yorkshire with my family, which includes three teenage daughters and an excitable lurcher.
Mediale @medialeuk.bsky.social International digital arts organisation creating extraordinary experiences in Yorkshire, the UK and worldwide.
Art, meet the future.
https://mediale.org.uk/
De Gruyter Brill Library & Information Science @dgb-lis.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Library and Information Science department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Open Fifth @openfifth.bsky.social Open Fifth Limited (formerly PTFS Europe Limited) is a UK-based company with the vision to make technology easy for libraries. We focus on enabling library users through high-quality, open source software solutions.
EMRE KIZILKAYA @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social Ph.D. in Media & Communication | '24-'25 Carr-Ryan Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Data #Ethics
John Trevor-Allen 𝘍𝘊𝘓𝘐𝘗 @misterjta.bsky.social Librarian; CEO at Three Rings CIC; Trustee of Family Rights Group; Trustee of National Library of Wales; School Governor; Parent; former CILIP President / Chair / Trustee; Increasingly too time-poor and too tired for Social Media; Here anyway!
Fiona @fmwatki.bsky.social Digital Resources & Collections Manager at the University of Northampton, all views are my own! Occasional crocheter, quilter and X-stitcher and enjoy baking and reading (& audiobooks) when I can stop myself watching mindless tv!
Arts Lancashire @artslancashire.bsky.social A strategic voice for professional arts and culture in Lancashire. We post about Lancs-wide arts programmes, jobs and training opportunities, advocacy, policy and research. Find us at: Artslancashire.org.uk
Sarah Ormes @sormes.bsky.social Research Analytics Librarian at the University of Bath. Helping academics to demonstrate the impact of their work.
INCLUDE+ @include-plus.bsky.social Exploring how social and digital environments can be built, shaped, and sustained to enable all people to thrive.
Funded by EPSRC
https://includeplus.org/
Appetite @appetitestoke.bsky.social An Arts Council England Creative People and Places programme led by New Vic Theatre that aims to get more people from Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme to experience and be inspired by the arts.
Cllr Richard Kemp CBE @cllrkemp.bsky.social Lib Dem spokesperson on Housing. Former Lord Mayor of Liverpool and Councillor for the fabulous Penny Lane ward. Married to Ald. Erica Kemp CBE with three children and five grandchildren
Lorensbergs @lorensbergs.bsky.social Supporting and championing the work of libraries, universities and colleges. Software creator and supplier of Netloan and Connect2 resource booking solutions.
Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social Associate Director, Ada Lovelace Institute. Mainly posting about AI, society and social policy.
Previously IPPR, Citizens Advice, 5Rights, Fabian Society.
image cred: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI 2.0 / CC-BY 
Mark Wallace @markwallace.uk Director of Beaford Arts in rural North Devon. Area Councillor, ACE SW. Vice-Chair, North Devon UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. We make a little history, baby.
David JeremysIron @davidjsiron.bsky.social UK FE library worker, neurodivergent, he/him. Also a (very) amateur cryptic crossword setter at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/ as JeremysIron.
Weeping Bank @weepingbank.bsky.social The acclaimed ghost storytelling experience, bridging the gap between page and stage
Sean McNamara @seanmcnamara81.bsky.social Director of CILIPS, the professional body for library and information workers in Scotland
Amy Walduck @amywalduck.bsky.social Librarian | Cat lady | Fan of peanut butter | Director Partnerships & Events at ALIA - Australian Library & Information Association
Curious Minds @curiousminds.org.uk We dream of a future where being creative and experiencing brilliant culture is a regular part of every child’s learning and life. 
Libraries Rising @librariesrising.bsky.social We are a collaborative network creating libraries of tomorrow with children and young people today.
Libraries Rising is the working name of Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians (formerly known as ASCEL)
@onlinereader24.bsky.social @onlinereader24.bsky.social Former Prof of English and New Media. Now mainly tbf reading, playing pickleball and eating out
Amy Houtenbos @amyhoutenbos.bsky.social Londoner, Librarian, Foodie
Hilary Turner @evolvinglibrarian.bsky.social Aspiring academic librarian. Currently in school for my MSLS and working in a public library.
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Public Services Quarterly Journal T&F @publicservicesq.bsky.social PSQ is a journal that covers public service issues in academic libraries. Published by Taylor & Francis | Editorial Board: https://tinyurl.com/3njutceb
Library-Ann @library-ann.bsky.social Librarian, amateur photographer, funny girl. Tattooed hippie chick.
I draw sometimes.
I write sometimes.
I have liberal tendencies all the time.
💙🩵💙🩵
#k80s
All photos and poems my own unless otherwise credited. Ask me about books! 💙📚
🚫DMs. 🚫creepers.
James Wright @jameswrights.bsky.social Librarian & Indie Author of genre satire. Known for having a visual style & unique characters, as well as snappy dialogue. If only I was like that in real life!
Check out my works in the links👇!
https://linktr.ee/jameswritessurprisingly
Louise @borolou.bsky.social #Teesside, music, football, books, theatre, and the coast
Kay Ecclestone @kfecclestone.bsky.social #InfoProfessional 30+ years' experience in academic, industrial & public libraries. Dinghy Sailor. Socialist.
South Wellfield First School @southwellfieldfs.bsky.social 
Andreas Mace @poacherone.bsky.social Systems Librarian at The National Library of Sweden. Likes open source, library systems and thinking about workflows/processes. Opinions are my own (unless I’ve been brainwashed).
Christina Kamposiori @ckamposiori.bsky.social Executive Programme Officer at Research Libraries UK | @UCLDH Affiliate | #researchlibraries, #digitalhumanities 
South Western Regional Library Services @swrls.bsky.social Uniting, inspiring, collaborating across libraries, information services and cultural organisations in the South West
www.swrls.org.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/swrls
Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social Researcher interested in evidence synthesis and other evidence-based things, most often to do with microbes (e.g. veterinary microbiology in livestock, pollution in bathing waters).
Associate Research Fellow at University of Exeter
Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴
Anne Welsh @annewelsh.bsky.social Reading, writing and cataloguing books 📚
Fast Familiar @fastfamiliar.bsky.social participatory, playful + political artworks by an interdisciplinary studio | powered by curiosity, coffee + misplaced idealism | finally left the hellsite
Ally Brown @behinddreaming.bsky.social A Poet, Librarian, Unionist & RENegade.
Living in Naarm and previously on Anaiwan country. Always was, always will be.
To write is to Dream,
To dream is to become more than you are.
Poems & photos CC-BY-NC
https://poetry.behinddreaming.com
Nancy @nancyreads.bsky.social Librarian at large, bibliophile, and wannabe archivist. Former bookseller, teacher, grant writer, and museum docent. 
Eddie Kristan @giantlibrarian.bsky.social He/Him, BookSky, public librarian, pie baker, audio-drama nerd, fantasy reader, Ren Faire attender, Star Wars fan, & therapy advocate. 2020 LJ Mover & Shaker.
Kaybdc @kaybdc.bsky.social Archivist/accidental cataloger, former art historian, current art enthusiast; otherwise just muddling through.
She/her
Laura A. Sheets @librarian-laura.bsky.social She/her. Librarian. Assistant Professor. Romance Reader. 〽️ichigan Fan living in Ohio. Connoisseur of 80's/90's mystery TV. I hold LOTS of privilege.
Helen Harvey @helenharvey.bsky.social Children's writer and library badger. Author of Emmy Levels Up (OUP). Likes coffee, cats, knitting and climbing. 
Iron Librarian @ironlibrarian.bsky.social School Librarian
CTU
WOSO
Chicago
‘24-‘25 Fellow University of California Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Kay Grieves @kayg73.bsky.social HE Libraries. Universities. Learning, Teaching Research. Impact and Engagement. Travel. Plants and Growing things.
Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social Unlocking town centre buildings for amazing ideas 🔑
Co-founding partners: High Streets Task Force, Power to Change, British Property Federation, New Local, Radix, Shoosmiths
https://www.platformplaces.com/
WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social Neighbourhood test-space imagining and making low carbon homes, social infrastructure and building community wealth in the process.
📍Knowle West, Bristol
WeCanMake.org
Clare Brumpton @clarebrumpton.bsky.social She/Her, International School Librarian, IB Librarian, Teacher Librarian, student-led Research Institute, ECIS Lib & Info SIG committee member.
#reading #informationliteracy #research #librarian #inquiry #IBLibrarian #IB #EduSky #UKKidLit
Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social Green Party activist, volunteer archivist and retired librarian in Portsmouth/Southsea. Also occasional driver of a mobile library. Linux fan.
@thelibraryprof.bsky.social @thelibraryprof.bsky.social Academic Librarian
Professor of Library Technology
Thinker|Seeker|Reader
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchel
Ashley Cooksey @ashleycooksey2.bsky.social Educator (of future school librarians). School Library Advocate. Student Voice Champion. Equitable Digital Access & UDL Supporter. Professional Learning Leader. Yogi. Growth Mindset Developer. Writer. Hiker. https://linktr.ee/ashleycooksey
Corey Seeman @cseeman.bsky.social Corey Seeman is the director of Kresge Library Services (Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Corey is most known for his photography work, especially for squirrels Find more at http://www.squirreldude.com
Craig Horlbeck @craighorlbeck.bsky.social On-air / producer at The Ringer / Spotify.
The Ringer Fantasy Football Show | The Rewatchables | The Town
Danny Heifetz @dannyheifetz.bsky.social Host of The Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
Staff Writer at The Ringer & Spotify
Danny Kelly @dannybkelly.bsky.social Senior Staff Writer at the Ringer
Co-Host Ringer Fantasy Football Show || Ringer NFL Draft Show
Ringer Fantasy Football Draft Guide || Ringer NFL Draft Guide
Lily Wilson @lily-wilson.bsky.social Indie bookseller | MLS | Actually a Hobbit 🇵🇸
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Insight Media @insight-media.bsky.social Leading technology partner in the UK for the provision of library PC booking solutions, print payment and release, wireless printing, Wi-Fi authentication and self-service kiosk software services.
Niamh Tumelty @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Director of LSE Library, Managing Director of LSE Press, Programme Director for LIBER Emerging Leaders. Cláirseach, gaeilge agus suathaireacht spóirt, here in personal capacity. Pronounced Nee-uv, it makes sense in Irish! Not on here much these days
Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology 
@helenwillmott.bsky.social @helenwillmott.bsky.social Consultant supporting artists/arts orgs with evaluation, fundraising and producing. Passionate about equity, co-creation and audience development. 
Liz Chapman @lgbtlibrarian.bsky.social Librarian, translator, researcher on LGBTQ+ literature & libraries
🏳️🌈she/her
Co-editor, LGBTQ+ Literature for Children & Young Adults https://anthempress.com/humanities-literature-and-arts/international-lgbtq-literature-for-children-and-young-adults-hb
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social Retired librarian with 27 years in the rip-roaring world of libraries (last 13 years in a school library) Books, films, gardens, nature and fretting about climate emergency.
https://mrswatts101.edublogs.org/
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
- Follow on: Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Threads, Spotify
- Find our podcast on YouTube and Buzzsprout 📱✨️📚😁❤️🍁
Kathleen Moran @kittymo1.bsky.social National Coordinator JCSP Library Project https://jcsplibraries.com/
Chair LAI School Libraries group https://schoollibrariesireland.com/
LAI/CILIP Ireland Library Staff Champion 2023
Book lover-Educator-Dog walker. Living life & always learning 
XR Stories @xrstories.bsky.social A University of York project supporting research, development and innovation in technology-led creative content, experiences and stories. Also leading XR Network+, providing funding and support to researchers working in virtual production technologies.
beforeghosts @beforeghosts.bsky.social #CILIP125 recipient.
Library assistant from Lancashire.
Creative. Book lover. Art and culture nerd.
She/ her
Emma Ash @emmaash.bsky.social Cotswold Girl 💖 | UK Explorer 🇬🇧
Countryside 🏞️ | Heritage 🏛️ | Travel 🌍
Jo Simons (she/her) @josimons.bsky.social Dr. Jo, Pākehā, Academic Librarian in Aotearoa NZ, Plant enthusiast, fibre crafter, hoarder of pens, herder of children and cats
Working with Digital Library team at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, opinions mine not my employers
CILIP London and South East @ciliplondon.bsky.social We are the representative body for library and information professionals living or working in London & the South East of England.
https://tinyurl.com/CILIP-LondonSE
| Volunteers manage this account. Communications from it are not CILIP policy. |
October Jones @octoberjonesco.bsky.social The ‘one stop spot’ for the spooky, kooky, magical, fantastical, weird and wonderful world(s) of Children’s Literature & Illustration!
https://octoberjones.co.uk/
Sam Helmick @samhelmick.bsky.social 5k-er. American Library Association President. Author. Baker. Christian. #FreePeopleReadFreely. LEGO lover. #Library Worker. Policy Wonk. #ThoughtBunny Wrangler. 🐇
John Reo @johnreo.bsky.social Concept Creative Designer 🌏 #selfpromo
Digitalartist/Nfts/illustrator
✍️my own work of Art is ON AUCTION!!!
#watchztitanic 🧐 see 1st post (LICENSED)
Evelyn Wilson @evelynwilson.bsky.social Co-Director National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange. Enjoy exploring, showcasing, supporting publishing and occasionally writing on ecologies and histories of cultural collaborations, and associated pursuits. And walking for the need to clear.
Marc Bernstein @marcbernstein261.bsky.social MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
JR Finch 🙏🌍📚☮️ @jrfinch.bsky.social Chair of CILIP Cymru Wales (CCW). Former Chair, UK CILIP ILIG 2019-2021. My third professional family is the BLA. Chat with me about Wales, libraries, retro gaming, films, and business.
Kate McBain @who-is-mcbain.bsky.social Producer / Researcher / Learning-Designer / Engagement specialist. Live arts & transdisciplinary practice. And so it goes.
Carel Press @carelpress.bsky.social We love libraries and learning and publish resources for them: Library Learner Quiz Pack; the Reading Game; Reading & Library posters; Complete Issues; Spine Labels; Shorter Shakespeare series.
https://carelpress.uk
Libraries Unlimited @librariesunlimited.bsky.social We are the charity responsible for running libraries across Devon and Torbay, providing library services that make a difference to people's lives. 
Cornwall Libraries @cornwalllibraries.bsky.social With a network of 29 libraries across Cornwall, we provide a free service to residents, including access to books, computers, activities, events and digital resources such as eBooks, eAudiobooks, ePress, language learning and driving theory practise.
William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
Community Libraries Network @communitylibs.bsky.social The Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network helps CMLs to run effectively and successfully by sharing ideas, learning, experiences and inspiration. communitylibrariesnetwork.org
Andrew Sayer @andrewsayerbcu.bsky.social Retired Librarian, trying to make the most of my time. History, pizzas and Middlesbrough F.C.
Anna McMahon @jointhelibrary.bsky.social What can I say? I really like libraries. Library Development Officer, Cambridgeshire Libraries.
Caroline Beavon @carolinebeavon.com Exhibiting digital interactive artist for hire (scrollytelling + more)
New digital stories - old tech.
Crone. Queer. ADHD. Magpie.
Into> misusing tools, narratives, what is human, digital witchcraft
http://www.carolinebeavon.com
Sjoukje Schots @sjoukjeschots.bsky.social Special interest in business, law, technology, education, engineering, languages, KM, IM and librarianship.