iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

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Annual General Meeting

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wish I’d found out earlier that the Commonwealth games is being shown on BBC Alba!

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There’s also the half time festivities to look forward to..

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

At least there’s one Englishman at the final..

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

A screenshot from here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

It explains that the machine learning involves only the detection of ink

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The David Attenborough bust at work today, suitably dressed.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/04/2026

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center

I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Australians now have better mobility into the EU than Brits “Under the new scheme, Australians can live and work in Europe for up to four years without needing a job offer before arrival.” Second class citizens in our own continent www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/tr...

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No Cookies | Sky News Australia

SkyNews.com.au — Australian News Headlines & World News Online from the best award winning journalists

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I can guess who this is! The same interviewer asked me what I would do if a butterfly was in the library at closing time. I said that if all the manuscripts were in boxes I couldn’t see a conservation issue but was told it might set off the intruder alarm. Didn’t get the job!

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If you need a mascot for Milano Cortina, Jellycat have introduced an “amuseable curling stone” called Cariss

A plush toy in the shape of a curling stone. She has a smiley face, white ear muffs and fluffy white feet.

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I’m not sure what he’s expecting from jet skiing in the UK. It’s not the Bahamas..

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 12/01/2026

my library weeded a Marie Kondo book today. i think it’s what she would want. 📚

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I went to Ronald’s funeral in November. I’m glad he got to see this work published as it was a long held ambition of his.

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I realise your question may be rhetorical 😀 but just in case anyone else was wondering..

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

To avoid paying for a PRS music license. From the PRS website: ‘All other items with a duration of less than 90 seconds are deemed non-disc plays and so are not generally payable…’

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Jennifer—em Dash—Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A new start for me on Monday as I become the Librarian at Clare College - with its 700th anniversary next year it'll be an exciting new challenge!

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Security - Durham’s stolen copy of Shakespeare’s first folio was able to be recovered in part due to the copy-specific info they had in their catalogue

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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/10/2025

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“Both discoveries show the crucial role of county council archives and their staff in preserving this musical heritage.”

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Maybe they could all retrain as ballet dancers

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Magdalene College Libraries @magdlibs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"‘A Disastrous Expedition’: I.A. Richards Caught Climbing the Roofs of Magdalene College". Check out our new article about the fabled practice of night climbing in Cambridge. Image ©Master and Fellows of Magdalene College Cambridge. @magdalenecollege.bsky.social

Two men climbing the clock tower at Magdalene College in 1915.

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Now we get to the real reason the tapestry being loaned: ‘The Bayeux Museum is scheduled to close at the end of August for a €38m (£33m) renovation which would have necessitated the moving of the tapestry regardless of any deal with Britain’. But still, I’ll look forward to seeing it!

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Great to meet Sir Grayson Perry today! His talk at Magdalene College Cambridge this evening, to accompany the private view of the College’s latest exhibition in the Cripps art gallery, was fantastic. Thanks to my friend Sarah for taking the photo!

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I saw this very object two weeks ago!

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

If that’s the case he would remember the frequent bomb scares on the tube due to the IRA. I’m a few years younger than him but it’s obvious to me that London has vastly improved since the 80s.

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I was there a couple of months ago. Fantastic place!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

THE POPE'S MOM WAS A LIBRARIAN

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

[extremely nigella voice] concalavé

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

On Rob Brydon’s podcast, Alison Steadman describes meeting the Welsh rugby team while they were ‘rehearsing’ 🤣

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Catherine Sutherland @cathjsuth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Lovely to see Torvill and Dean’s ‘bolero’ outfits at the Olympics museum today.

Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean’s ‘bolero’ costumes from the Sarajevo Olympics. On the left is Dean’s outfit, a lilac shirt with purple trousers, and Torvill’a outfit on the right, a short purple floaty dross with lilac sleeves.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Clarivate email marketing their new AI cataloging assistant has the subject line: "Violet – Smarter library management starts today! Can you personalize the subject line please?"

Screenshot of an email with the subject line "Violet – Smarter library management starts today! Can you personalize the subject line please?"

The body of the email starts with "Smarter cataloging with Alma AI. Let us show you how."

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Orkney Library & Archive is a library AND an archive but did you know about the miniature library that is stored IN the archive? Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library! Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible. Check it out on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...

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Pepys' Guilty Pleasure

YouTube video by Cambridge University

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