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Lauren @purton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Lovely time in London on Saturday visiting the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for a tour of the exhibition ‘Tenderness and Rage’, an exploration of HIV & AIDS stories from the UK and beyond. Thanks to @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social for organising. This Pride month see the exhibit, join the Network 🌈
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
In 2 weeks’ time you could be hanging out with the CILIP LGBTQIA+ Network in London for a special Wellcome exhibition visit, casual social, and lots of library chat. Join the Pride on 13 June 🌈 More info & reg: www.eventbrite.com/e/cilip-lgbt...
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Hangout: ‘Tenderness and Rage’ Exhibition Tour and Social!
Join us for our inaugural hangout that’ll feature a guided tour of ‘Tenderness and Rage' followed by a social at a nearby pub.
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It's nearly Pride month & CILIP’s LGBTQ+ committee is coming out and wants the world to know! Join us 13 June for a guided tour of ‘Tenderness and Rage’, exhibition at the Wellcome Collection (London), followed by a friendly social. Registration required. Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cilip-lgbt...
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Hangout: ‘Tenderness and Rage’ Exhibition Tour and Social!
Join us for our inaugural hangout that’ll feature a guided tour of ‘Tenderness and Rage' followed by a social at a nearby pub.
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Happy New Year Again! (𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠) 😉
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📚Book: Radical Cataloging- Essays at the Front Includes chapters: 📗Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming 📘A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access tinyurl.com/bdzde3sa #Catalogue #Metadata #Library #Librarian #LibraryWorker #EDI #DEI #LGBTQ
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Radical Cataloging - McFarland
Radical Cataloging Essays at the Front Edited by K.R. Roberto 978-0-7864-3543-2 978-1-4766-0512-8
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📰'LGBTQ librarians are trying to keep vital books accessible to queer youth, despite bans' www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lg... #Library #Librarian #LibraryWorker #Research #Employment #Workplace #LGBTQ #LGBT #Gay #Bookban #Book
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LGBTQ librarians are trying to keep vital books accessible to queer youth, despite bans
"We build collections that allow people to find themselves on the shelves," notes one queer librarian.
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School Library Journal @slj.com · 08/04/2026
A Soft Silencing in Children’s Publishing Are LGBTQIA+ voices being quietly pushed out by publishing decisions? www.slj.com/story/Soft-S...
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A Soft Silencing in Children
Are LGBTQIA+ voices being quietly pushed out by publishing decisions?
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"With Book Bans on the Rise, Pressley Introduces Bill to Fight Back, Promote Inclusive #Literature" (via @ayannapressley.bsky.social) pressley.house.gov/2026/04/07/p... #books #bookbans #uscongress #legislation #libraries
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Check out the new website for the Library Freedom Journal, published by the folks at the Library Freedom Project. journal.libraryfreedom.org They're looking for submissions for articles, reviews, hot takes, zines, & artwork focused on privacy, intellectual freedom, information democracy, & more! 📚
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Tenn. library director fired over refusal to move LGBTQ+ books to adult section
A county board near Nashville voted to dismiss Luanne James, who said she stands by her decision, in the latest clash in a national debate over access to books.
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"as #librarians, #lesbian and #bisexual women may have higher success and satisfaction in the management of sexual identity in the #workplace than women in other professions." From the archive: Workplace identity management issues of Lesbian and Bisexual Librarians⬇️ cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/mast...
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a librarian is sitting at a desk in front of a bookshelf
ALT: a librarian is sitting at a desk in front of a bookshelf
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Happy New Year Again! (𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠) 😉
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"Trans & #gender diverse people are present in all areas of #library work" from 'Decistifying #trans & gender diverse inclusion in library work: A literature review' ⬇️ www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2024/decisti... #Librarian #LibraryWorker #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NonBinary #Queer
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Decistifying trans and gender diverse inclusion in library work: A literature review – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 31/03/2026
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.
A CRT on top of a 90s PC (with floppy disk) showing the Trans Pride Flag
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Michelle B @michelleab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We've got a great programme, we've got tickets, now we need you! Tickets and bursary applications now available for #CALC26, taking place online from Tuesday 12th-Thursday 14th May. Hope you can join us! sites.google.com/view/calccon...
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CALC
A conference to discuss critical practice in libraries.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Conciencia” (Awareness),2015 by Spanish artist Alicia Martin, created with thousands of donated books #womensart
 Large-scale circular sculpture created with many books sited in a park area
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📘Book: 'Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians' ▶️ litwinbooks.com/books/out-be... #Library #Librarian #LibraryWorker #Research #Employment #Workplace #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Trans #Queer
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Out Behind the Desk - Litwin Books & Library Juice Press
Number one in the series Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, Emily Drabinski, series editor Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians is an anthology of personal accounts … R...
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
'Interrogating queer silence in the archive: A multiversal approach to archival justice' 💻 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Research #Catalogue #Metadata #Library #Archive #Collections #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Trans #Queer #History #Heritage
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Archival Activism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the LGBTQ2+ Community Archive muse.jhu.edu/pub/302/arti... #Research #Archive #Collections #LGBT #Lesbian #Gay #GLAM
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Project MUSE - Archival Activism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the LGBTQ2+ Community Archive
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The power of inclusive practices in #academic libraries for LGBTQIA+ communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Library #Librarian #Research #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Trans #Queer #EDI
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The power of inclusive practices in academic libraries for LGBTQIA+ communities
This research investigates the experiences of LGBTQIA+ academic library patrons with reference librarians and other staff to identify strategies for i…
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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The ALN Staff Development Weekly Update provides info on how you can apply to the ALN EDI Innovation Fund, last chance to submit to #ALN26's call for papers (theme of openness) & contribute to the next Frontline Forum. We'd love for you to get involved: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/staff-develo...
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Staff Development - Academic Libraries North
Our Staff Development Offer Infographic summarises all the great staff development activities we do to support our member institutions.
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Academic Libraries North (ALN) @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Time is running out! Submissions close 11:45pm today so get your proposals in! More details on how to submit can be found at www.academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/aln-conferen... #ALN26
A pink graphic, showing a black megaphone. "Call for papers" is coming out of the megaphone, with the text "ALN Conference 2026" below it. The background shows the text from the Call for Papers document.
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Librarians enter the chat
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
if any library folks are thinking about looking for a new social media home, discord has #CripLib (and LibraryFreedomProject and LibraryPunk and many others, I just have an invite code for CL) and also mastodon has glammr.us
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glammr.us Mastodon
glammr.us is a space for folks interested in galleries, libraries, archives, museums, memory work and records. But you don't only have to post about GLAMMR-related topics, bring your whole self!
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I have a sweet spot for online #archives, this digitised collection of 226 #LGBT badges is worth a little look if you've 5 mins to spare. From the archive at @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #Library #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Trans #Queer #GLAM
photo showing a yellowed aged pin badge with the words 'avenge oscar wilde' in purple retro font on it. photo a white pin badge with the symbol of a butterfly and fist on it. The words above the logo say 'Come Out'  The logo and font are in purplephoto a black pin badge with a pink triangle.  The text on the badge reads 'we are everywhere' photo of a pink badge with the text 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle'
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Shocking this level of censorship is happening at home.
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CILIP School Libraries Group @cilipslg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A concerning case of school library censorship in Greater Manchester: Read more: www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho... SLG supported the librarian with expert guidance, and CILIP continues to speak out against censorship. School libraries must remain safe, inclusive spaces @cilip.bsky.social
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Just before LGBTQI History month wraps we have a new blog in our Diversity Allies series - read all about it here www.archives.org.uk/diversity-allies-blog/accessibility-and-archives-i-have-been-gifted-with-obstinacy-in-the-face-of-physical-and-other-disadvantages
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Accessibility and Archives: “I have been gifted with obstinacy in the face of physical and other disadvantages” — Archives & Records Association
In this blog for LGBTQ+ History Month, Philip Milnes-Smith reflects on the particular challenges of finding queer disability history.    Indigo Dunphy Smith’s 2025 toolkit ( How to Qu...
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It's friday! time for the weekly good news thread. What's YOUR good news from the week? What's made you smile? Me? It's been reconnecting with Buffy fandom.
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National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The NAG Public Library Project Grant for 2026 is OPEN! This year, thanks to sponsorship from @openfifth.bsky.social, we have TWO grants of £1500 available for NAG member libraries. Full info: nag.org.uk/public-libra...
NAG Public Library Project Grant sponsored by Open Fifth central text over open book with cartoons exploding out of it. Side boxes read "open to NAG public library members only" and "Two grants of £1500 available"
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
As LGBTQ+ History Month comes to a close, we wanted to share a snippet from the fantastic "How to be a good trans* ally" Webinar, hosted by Binni Brynolf. Full webinar is available now here: vimeo.com/1161082692?share=copy&fl=…
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How to be a good ally to trans, non-binary and non gender-conforming people
Binni Brynolf delivers a webinar on allyship for the LGBTQ+ Network. The Padlet mentioned is available here. Submissions are welcome but moderated.
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CILIP School Libraries Group @cilipslg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🌈 SLG Book of the Week 🌈 This week we’re featuring The Boy I Love by William Husse. Tender, lyrical, and unflinching, this story explores love, identity, prejudice and survival against the brutal backdrop of WWI. @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
worth a share. For LGBTQ History Month the National Archives are hosting an online event on Friday 27th Feb: Hidden Love: #LGBTQ+ relationships in the #archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-lov...
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Hidden Love: LGBTQ+ relationships in the archives
How did people defy state prejudice to find love and relationships?
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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
😉 'Why every scientist needs a librarian' www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why every scientist needs a librarian
Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.
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LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Call for Participants - PhD student @samanthabarker.bsky.social is recording oral histories of 1970s-1980s LGBTQ+ community memory related to fashion and clothing. For more details: ljmuarchives.blog/2026/02/11/c... #lgbt #lgbtq #history #archives #liverpoolhistory #fashion #oralhistory #archive
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Call for Participants – Fashion and living as LGBTQ+ in 1970s-1980s Britain
LJMU PhD student Samantha Barker is seeking participants to contribute to her origianl research on being part of an LGBTQIA+ community with memories from the 1970s and 1980s and the cultural signif…
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Fancy pottering around the British Museum with me tomorrow (Friday) evening and learning about queer history with all the messy bits left in?! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-to-s...
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Queer To Stay: LGBTQ+ History Tour of The British Museum
Sacha is a queer historian, author and tour guide. Join him for an LGBTQ+ history tour of the British Museum!
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Happening this Wednesday ⬇️ FREE talk for #LGBTQHM
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📑thesis: 'To collect our own histories: community archiving in the Lesbian and Gay History Movement' ⬇️ iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outp... #Library #Archive #History #Research #Heritage #Collections #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Trans #Queer
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Research Portal
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Might be of interest to #Archives and #Records folks: #GLAM #KIM #Heritage #Lesbian #LGBT
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RUCounselling @rucounselling.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
amazing Inventions by LGBT people in honour of LGBT History Month
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
📚 Paid opportunity to catalogue an #LGBTQ #Library collection ⬇️ www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #LIS #LISJOB #JOB #Vacancy #LGBT
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Library Assistant (Haud Nominandum Collection):London Senate House
The University of London is a leading UK provider of distance and digital education internationally, offering programmes to 45,000 students in 190 countries around the world. Although proudly rooted in London, our community and impact are global.
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Happening this Wednesday ⬇️ FREE talk for #LGBTQHM
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Lauren @purton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Join The Small Trans Library @translibgla.bsky.social for e-lunch on 25/Feb with @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ www.eventbrite.com/e/cilip-lgbt...
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CILIP LGBTQ+ & The Small Trans Library: Packed Lunch
Join us online for a chat with The Small Trans Library about LGBTQ+ stories and experiences.
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Read what #CILIPScotland colleague Kirsten MacQuarrie has to say on feminist librarianship and the lack of male peers: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a job well-valued, in every sense, will not be in want of male colleagues."⤵️
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
@ciliplgbtq.bsky.social & The Small #Trans #Library: Packed Lunch for #LBGTHM 🏳️‍⚧️📘 25 Feb 1-1:45 pm. Online. Free Attend to hear about The Small #Trans #Library background, approaches to collection building, resources & stories. There'll be time for questions. www.eventbrite.com/e/cilip-lgbt...
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CILIP LGBTQ+ & The Small Trans Library: Packed Lunch
Join us online for a chat with The Small Trans Library about LGBTQ+ stories and experiences.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/02/2026
#OtD 11 Feb 1987 Mark Ashton, leading member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners, died aged just 26. @LGSMpride raised huge amounts of money for Welsh miners during the strike of 1984-5 and brought together the LGBT & workers movts. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e...
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Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Shared by @womenslibrary.bsky.social in time for #IDWGS2026 A cataloguing system for a women’s library 📚 ♀️💕 #womenInSTEM #METADATA #data #LibraryScience #cataloging #knowledge #information #library
Photo showing a variety of books on display against a historic library backdrop that is in a board that says “Glasgow’s women’s library hello everyone welcome”
The text overlaying the image says “ did you know? Glasgow women’s library uses its own feminist classification system.”Photo showing a small selection of colourful books spines on a shelf.
The text overlaying the image says “for decades topics like LGBTQIA+ lives were filed under abnormal psychology, social problems perversion and arrangement that that’s not something GWL was willing to accept”Photographs showing wooden shelving holding the collection of books the area is carpeted in a light blue patterned carpet.
The text overlaying the image says” the system began taking shape in 2005 when GWL’s first librarian Wendy Kirk started developing a way to organise a growing collection of over 20,000 donated books”A photograph of three bookshelves that are pretty full. On the spines library labels can be seen.
The overlaying the image says “ instead of complex codes GWL uses letters for main subjects numbers for sub categories for example H7 .1 is history 20th century and suffragettes.
Simple. Intuitive. Welcoming.”
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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Never not relevant! ⬇️ #Librarian #LibraryScience #Information #Cataloguing #WomenInSTEM #IDWGS #MetaData #IDWGS2026
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Might be of interest to #Archives and #Records folks: #GLAM #KIM #Heritage #Lesbian #LGBT
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