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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today: no thank you. No thank you VERY much.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

across UK universities, the only people who do not care about students and their experience sit in senior leadership roles

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wish all ableists an incurable, horrible, painful disease.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Clinical trial appointment day, NHS IT fails all round and the strictest timetable of what order things must be done in, plus a testing machine that makes a noise like a swanee whistle mean that we're all hysterical.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing all day and not even allowed to ask the applicants what their favourite new Taylor Swift song is.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As someone with a management style which is very much 'here's a thing, I trust you to do it, let me know if you need anything' I'm finding being micromanaged increasingly unbearable.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Breaking news: teenagers still haven't worked out how utterly tedious it is to listen to someone talk about alcohol and how much they've drunk of which drink

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Student in asking for 'magic books that aren't too scary', likes HP (yuck). Handed him Like A Charm by @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social and he very exitedly decided to borrow it. Librarians and authors FTW!

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Attended the AI Strategy Group meeting. Will to live currently at 1%.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So glad I ordered a load of new headphones for the library computers just as an IT update removed sound from student accounts.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is exhausting to have spent a career constantly proving your worth and that libraries and librarians are still needed, only for the large library organisations to pull dick moves like this.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

White man with no library experience becomes head of national library shocker.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If anyone has any tips on how to cope with school avoidance at secondary level, I'd love to hear them.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've washed my hair post fabulous hair cut. Nothing more humbling than your interpretation Vs the professionals.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

67% lung capacity here folks, which is stable from 3 months ago - could I be on the drug not the placebo?!

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm not having a lung function test because I've got the world's best lung capacity and I'm here to show off. My lungs are fucked, stop telling me to take a deeper breath, THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE FOR IT TO GO.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Looking forward to my lung function test laster, given that today my lung capapcity appears to be one (1) small thimble of air.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now *that's* collection management.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love how you can hear the word ticket in that last repost.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

god this is good

flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine.

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've never liked Ed Sheeran. I disliked him before it was fashionable. This week is like Christmas

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I *sprinted* across the library to show this to the rest of my team and I'm going to make sure it reaches our SMT. Possibly by wall papering their offices with it.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do you know what today really needed? A fire alarm! Yey!

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can someone please write me a note so I don't have to go to work tomorrow. I've got welcome week sessions, a new member of staff, shortlisting for job interviews and all my usual work.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Schools are not a business and a student is not a customer and this is the framing that encapsulates everything wrong with higher education. The “solution” of running universities like businesses rather than a public good was always the problem.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I just booked a hotel room and then got the chance to pick my room number for an extra £8. No. No hotel! That's *your* job!

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

HR have just launched the new staff wellbeing programme and one session is called Get to Know Your Own Palm

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do you know what there's too much choice of? Lightbulbs.

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Charlotte Dormer @cnkdormer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join us at the University of Reading for a mini-festival on the Languages of Children’s Books in the UK’s National Year of 📅 17 Sept 2026 | 10:00 – 17:00 GMT 📍 Uni of Reading & Online ⏰ Booking deadline: 10 Sept for in person | 16 Sept for online tickets

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Layers of noise currently at my workplace (library): 1. Construction noise, namely circular saw and hammering 2. Greatest Hits radio 3. Someone playing a grand piano 4. General student noise 5. Internal screaming

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I look you in the eye, busiest week of the year and I LAUGH in your face* *I hide under desk until everyone goes away

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today I am taking my daughter and two of her friends to see Katseye. All thoughts and prayers accepted. If you have any spare @bethanar.bsky.social is similarly afflicted.

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I had a flare up this week so must have been especially cool.

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Pete Smith @reddite.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Into folklore? Live in / near Sheffield? Then you might be interested in the John Widdowson Folklore Collection! libguides.shu.ac.uk/c.php?g=5583... @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've gone with tights today lads. Have I gone too soon? Have I supply teacher at the Gnome Art Schooled too soon?

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We had five (5) requests for Percy Jackson books yesterday and overnight the penny dropped - oh, it's becuase of The Odyssey film! Hastily - but brilliantly - arranged display now shows all our Greek Myth stock.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Me, whenever I'm asked where I found my resources from:

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

AHAHAHAHAHAHA none of the library laptops have been upgraded over the summer as they should have been and now none of them work HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still time to apply to be part of my gang of superheroes. Oh wait *checks notes* be part of my library team.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've spent all summer trying to get hold of an out of print book for an English teacher, I just emailed him to say I was struggling to find it, could he suggest an alternative title? He asked me if I'd looked on Amazon or Ebay.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hello lovelies, I'm looking for two recommendations for Leeds, Can you suggest: 1. Somewhere for brunch on Sunday. Avocado things, eggs benedict, that kind of vibe; 2. Old-school greasy spoon, all-day breakfast, builder's tea, open on a Monday?

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Teacher giving a tour of the library "this is Abby, she's in charge of the library". Me: "barely"

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I had totally forgotten about Keir Starmer.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A call out to the network - I really like to talk to someone who has worked in prison libraries & has experience of providing LGBTQ+ books in that sector. Is this you? Or do you know someone who I could talk to?

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't wait to go to work and cover the day long shift on the desk in our pc room that isn't an IT helpdesk and help all 6000 of our students sort out multi factor authentication. This is why I became a librarian!

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Everyone with students returning tomorrow - eyes on the half term break, we can do this.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My constant inner monologue is FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF!

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