Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social Manchester Metadata Maven
#Metadata Librarian (UK) #OpenAccess & #OpenInfras supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
Opinions my own.
https://linktr.ee/emmabooth
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
@vlibrarian.bsky.social @vlibrarian.bsky.social
@alisonsharman.bsky.social @alisonsharman.bsky.social
Heather Howard @hidingheather.bsky.social Associate prof and business librarian. Cats, cooking, books, travel. she/her
LILAC Conference @lilacconf.bsky.social The Information Literacy Conference. https://www.lilacconference.com/
LILAC 2027, 21-23 April, City St George's, University of London
#infolit, #digilit, #usered, #LILAC27
Our comms do not represent CILIP policy.
Sue Lacey Bryant @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social Visiting Professor, Knowledge & Information Mobilisation at MMU. KM Consultant. Hon Advisor, HIN KSS. Coach & mentor. Chair, Health & Digital Literacy Partnership; past President of CILIP; Walford & Cyril Barnard Awards. Former CKO for NHSE. Stationer.
@lilac2026-60.bsky.social @lilac2026-60.bsky.social
Kat Steiner🔸 @kastrel.bsky.social Oxford-based medical librarian, butler to a cat named Abby, amateur actor, folk singer, cross-stitcher. Chronically helpful; annoying people for good. She/her, opinions absolutely my own.
Peter Johnson @libraryvines.bsky.social Medical librarian #medlibs also into Tolkien, history, Star Wars, amateur Excel skills, and inclusivity
Amanda Ross-White @amandarosswhite.bsky.social Medical Librarian. Writer. Mom. Moved over fully from the Bird app. Loves: Jesus, gin, swearing. Hates: Racism. Anti-vaxxers. All tweets my own and not always coherent. Highly eclectic. Already appreciate longer character limits. #canmedlibs #medlibs
Heather B @hbrarian.bsky.social Librarian | ISTJ | Relator | Includer | Restorative | Harmony | Empathy
Posts are my own
Laura Lipke 🦀 @liblaura.bsky.social #medlibs #nursing #publichealth #evidencesynthesis #methodology
Health science librarian at Binghamton University
ORCiD: 0000-0003-3653-5843
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but its the only way you can do anything really good." W. Faulkner
Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social Crafter, research librarian, lapsed writer, former editor of The Girly Comic, watcher of kdrama, jdrama, tdrama, has ME/CFS, based in Leicester UK
https://factorfictionpress.co.uk/
Ann O’Sullivan @osullivanannie.bsky.social Law Librarian with wanderlust living in Dublin 🍉 @biall.org.uk @laibluesky.bsky.social @aslibraries.bsky.social #repealedthe8th #vitaminsea
MrSteveSmith @mrstevesmith.bsky.social Star 2nd trombonist. IET Academic Partnerships Manager
Tasha Mellins-Cohen @tashamc.bsky.social Exec Director of COUNTER Metrics, Founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting, big fan of standards, data, and sustainable open access. Inveterate textile nerd and housekeeper to a triad of demanding moggies.
Posts are my own opinions.
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Research Elements @reselements.bsky.social Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
Scientific Today @scitoday.bsky.social Scientific content aggregator with custom content feeds. Science news, jobs, events and more. Sign up at https://www.scientific.today.
Rachel King @rachelkingwiley.bsky.social Account Manager at Wiley for all things Healthcare
Dr Rachael Hosznyak @hosznyakrachael.bsky.social Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner 👩🏻⚕️, Practice in COTE 👵🏻 PhD Health Sciences 👩🏻💻, wife 🏳️🌈, mum 👦🏼, Buddhist 🪷
DoppelpaSS @doppelpass.bsky.social Reference librarian from 🇯🇵.
Working at medical & nursing related Higher educational institution.
My interests are #systematicreviews #scopingreviews #evidencesynthesis #evidencebasedpractice #ebp and #medlibs
Bayer 04 Leverkusen fan for 10+ years
Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social Assessment & UX at Princeton University Library| Bay Area expat, found in museums, between trees, and thinking about how to make libraries a place for everyone.
Op-eds my own.
Martha @ bluesky @marthakyrillidou.bsky.social vision, strategy, planning, evaluation, quality, service, innovation, learning, research, libraries, education, health, consulting
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social Open Research Communications Specialist .
Trouble-shooter, techy, writer, podcaster, trainer and speaker.
Research communications and impact trainer - consultant for hire.
https://www.andytattersall.com/
https://linktr.ee/andy_tattersall
Mark Pulsford @markjpulsford.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, University of Warwick. Interests in fatherhood, education policy and practice, pastoral and academic support.
CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social A @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group.
The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters
https://www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
BIALL (British & Irish Association of Law Librarians) @biall.org.uk The official account for the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians.
BIALL is the leading professional body in the UK and Ireland for information and knowledge professionals working with legal information.
Sage @sagepub.com Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.
UCEA @ucea.bsky.social Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA)
We provide higher education institutions with timely advice and guidance on all employment and reward matters across the UK.
https://www.ucea.ac.uk/
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.
Ann Byrne @the-librariann.bsky.social Digital librarian at Hibernia College. Also a proud parent, psychotherapist, movie lover, bibliophile, melomaniac, stargazer, and magic seeker.
CelticAudrey @celticaudrey.bsky.social Just arrived from The Bad Place where I had the same username. Librarian who borrows way more books than I read.
Rebecca @drbexwalker.bsky.social Lecturer in Chemistry @ University of Aberdeen 🏴 | Liquid Crystals💧💎 | Cat Mom to Raven and Raja 🐾
Bristol University Library @bristolunilib.bsky.social Official account for @universityofbristol library services 👋 We're here to support your research, teaching and studies and connect with the academic community. Also expect beautiful library photos and the occasional cat.
www.bristol.ac.uk/library
National Open Research Forum (Ireland) @norfireland.bsky.social Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF), established in 2017, drives the national Open Research agenda. It fosters communication and cooperation among key stakeholders to address strategic issues, policies, and practices in open research.
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Welcome to our official account 👋 Follow for the latest news, research and updates about life at Oxford.
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NHS Charities Together @nhscharitiestogether.co.uk Uniting for better healthcare, for everyone. 💙
https://linktr.ee/nhscharitiestogether
NHS England @england.nhs.uk
Black Country Knowledge & Library Services @bchftlibrary.bsky.social Knowledge & Library Services for staff & students at Black Country Healthcare Foundation Trust (X @BlackCountryNHS/Insta @bchftlibrary/Tik tok @bchft_nhs_library)
NHS Borders Library Service @nhsborderslibrary.bsky.social
Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme. Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Expect Typos
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Sjoukje Schots @sjoukjeschots.bsky.social Special interest in business, law, technology, education, engineering, languages, KM, IM and librarianship.
Hannah Painting @hannahpainting.bsky.social As an Academic Librarian at Northampton College's Digital & Academic Resources Centre (DARC), I specialise in developing and delivering academic materials to support student success.
Ruth Smalley @ruthsmalley.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, yoga lover, spreadsheet geek. Currently Subscriptions and Licensing Manger at Edge Hill University
Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social Associate Director - Collections and Digital Transformation, Library & Cultural Services, Manchester Metropolitan University. These views, though, are my own
Katie Barrowman @katiealafrev.bsky.social Collections Librarian | she/her | interests: rare books, print history, history of communication, crafts, cats, LGBTQ+
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Knowledge and Library Service @lancshosplib.bsky.social Delivering knowledge and library services to staff and students at Royal Preston & Chorley Hospitals - supporting patient care, education, research and well-being.
Librarianth @librarianth.bsky.social University of York Acquisitions Librarian. Professional Northerner. Bang on about armchair politics, books, ebooks, coffee, & Boro. Views/opinions personal. UTB
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
Siobhán @sluginkpress.bsky.social artist, art librarian, sentient binbag. Commute whinges, nice artists’ books, photos of bins.
Brighton Scum City//LDN.
@improvjess1.bsky.social @improvjess1.bsky.social
Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social Development and engagement manager @jisc.bsky.social
Outreach & Engagement committee @uksg.bsky.social
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7210-3199
Keith Nockels @knockels.bsky.social Medical and health information specialist based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Atla @youratla.bsky.social *Collectors and Connectors in Religion & Theology*
Advancing the work of libraries & librarians worldwide
www.atla.com
Michelle H. @librariphant.bsky.social 40-something Midwest-borne empath equally passionate about librarianship and project management. As I encounter fewer and fewer who feel the same along my path, "there's a mutiny brewing inside of me now." Doctoral student, Bus. Admin.
michellekhahn.com
Siobhan Corrin (previously Linsey) @slaintesiobhan.bsky.social Librarian, lover of ideas and access to knowledge.
Marshall Breeding @mbreeding.bsky.social Independent consultant, speaker, and author. Editor of Library Technology Guides.
Library and Knowledge Services at NHS Highland @nhshlibraries.bsky.social Bringing the right health information to the right people at the right time
Sarah Pittaway @drsarah.bsky.social Director of Library & Learning Resources @ BCU.
Likely to post about libraries, HE, feminism, shoes, and cats. Not necessarily in that order. She/her.
David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social Executive Director of Research Libraries UK, supporting research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Chair of the Board for the Directory of Open Access Journals. He/him
CILIP @cilip.bsky.social We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
UKSG @uksg.bsky.social UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries, along with companies and people who supply them with technology and services. We bring these different organisations together to share experiences and work together on shared challenges.
Jisc @jisc.bsky.social Jisc: for the future of education and research
For more than 30 years, Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used.
www.jisc.ac.uk
LibPMC @libpmc.bsky.social We are the International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, a community centred around library assessment, performance measurement, & evidence-based decision-making. Join us for our 16th conference in Liverpool, UK, on 3-4 June 2025!
OpenAthens @openathens.bsky.social Access to knowledge made easy. Follow us for news and views. Part of Jisc. For privacy reasons, we don't respond to queries on social media. For a detailed response, please get in touch at contact@openathens.net
EBSCO UK, Ireland and Nordics @ebscouk.bsky.social EBSCO UK is a leading global provider of online research content & AI-enabled search technologies for libraries, healthcare, corporations, and government agencies.
EBSCO Information Services @ebsco.bsky.social
Susan Smith @susanwsmith.bsky.social NHS library manager with a love of nature, gardening, raptors. Avid board game fan and all thing sci-fi & fantasy.
AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social Still growing stuff, running and generally interested. Probably library chat will happen.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
RLUK Research Libraries UK @rluk.ac.uk RLUK's vision is that the UK should have the best research library support in the world. #RLUK26 #RLUKICIL #RLUKDSF #RLUKSPACE #RLUKRSP #librariesXresearch
CILIP School Libraries Group @cilipslg.bsky.social This is the account for the CILIP School Libraries Group, the professional association for school librarians. https://linktr.ee/CILIPSLGUK
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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