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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I feel a book review coming on 😊

Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

So melancholy as today would have been my late, great friend Stephen’s 61st birthday. Sadly he joined the choir in August 2018 😞 My birthday follows in 2 weeks and I always rang him on the 9th to rub it in that I was, for a short while, 2 weeks younger 👏 Bless him💓

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I’m sure this would make a brilliant Pet Shop Boys album title 👏

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Fab tap in my garden. I was about to check if the water flowed when a family of incy wincy spiders dangled down from its interior to grab a glimpse of a humid summer day. Fragile athletics on a teetering web. Bugger. I haven’t the heart to evict these sweet creatures with a full on tap tsunami 💕

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Early heads up. I am going to host another workshop for @ukeig.bsky.social @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social September 30th - 12-2pm. Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences Details to come- follow UKeiG or watch this space www.cilip.org.uk/events/event...

cilip.org.uk

Events Calendar - Special Interest Group: UK eInformation Group - CILIP: the library and information association

Michael Rosen keynotes our cross-sector programme which, this year, explores key themes around ethics and influencing. Join us for two days of inspiring talks, workshops and networking.

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We’ve transitioned 40 years from Band Aid to Banned Aid. Good old Ian Hislop who articulated the bitter irony of the situation on tonight’s #bbcpm #GazaStarving

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Fabulous 👏 Me, the BBC and Oasis

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Whirlwind work visit to my hometown of Manchesterford. Squeezed in a steak and kidney pudding with hard core chips, gravy, mushy peas, L S Lowry… and my old mate of 56 years or so Paula 👏

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Imogen Negomi @im-negomi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

✨️📚🖤 Thank you so much @ukeig.bsky.social for allowing me to attend #CILILConf25 ! So many important, fascinating, interesting and entertaining sessions with wonderful people! @cilip.bsky.social

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Lis Parcell @lizzyjane.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Inspiring words from Sue Bryant, opening #cilipconf25 "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"

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Lis Parcell @lizzyjane.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Some of the best library events I've ever been to have opened with a poem. This is one. Thankyou Rishi 🙏 #cilipconf25

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Izzy Eddyshaw @izzyed.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Brilliant keynote speech from Sebastian Cuttill at #CILIPConf25 on "the power of advocacy", putting forward a forceful argument for fighting back against allowing the AI agenda of "predominantly U.S-based tech firms to dictate our future". Am excited for the rest of the day!

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Lis Parcell @lizzyjane.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Quality panel debate at #cilipconf25 - AI, creative rights, ethics and more

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Such an immense pleasure to meet @ukeig.bsky.social’s two conference bursary winners Imogen and Prabina this morning. A great feeling spreading the joy of library, information and knowledge management 👏 @cilip.bsky.social #cilipconf25

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Fabulous #CILIP conference first day (and night) yesterday. So much food for thought, and I ingested it like a hoover👏 Bring on day 2 @cilip.bsky.social #cilipconf25

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A shout out to the great CILIP team on the morning of their two day annual conference in Birmingham. I have coffee, a biro and notebook and am raring to go. There’s old fashioned for you 👏@cilip.bsky.social

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Donalbain in bloody Macbeth! My father the king was dead and I skipped on saying ‘what is amiss?’ The producer sighed and said, ‘we’re not doing the Polanski version dear. It’s not a game show.’ I begged them to put me in a comedy. Bloody Shakespeare

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die #JudyGarland

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Bloody hell. Must we descend into this quagmire of bullshit. We’re staring WW3 in the eye for goodness sake 😔

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My office at King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry in the early 1990s. It was in the Pepperpot building in Camberwell, South London at the famous hospital site. I sunbathed on the roof. The posters tell a tale of the info industry as it was back then @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Such a joy to know that the remains of my fridge should be on Digging for Britain 👏

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

One is trying to visualise this process.

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

There’s an essential truth to this, played out decades on with the ascendancy of disruptive #AI. That sense of anxiety, angst and our library, information and knowledge profession’s immediate response to get to grips @cilip.bsky.social @ukeig.bsky.social @nedpotter.bsky.social @colric.bsky.social

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

You gorgeous creature! Miss you immensely. Congratulations 🥳 Let’s grab that phone call (or fern curl) as one says in Humberside 😊

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I must get into the habit of using this …

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Such a joy to experience police protection to protect old relics 😆👏

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My late, loved bessie mate David Perry with #LesDawson way back. Talk of the North ? nightclub I think. Les had a mini fridge loaded with bottles of scotch. He said he wanted to play King Lear

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It looks fizzless dear. I’d drop an aspirin in there and cross fingers 💕

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

‘Mother and father would have had to tie me down, apply handcuffs and put a straight jacket on me to have kept me from becoming a performer.’ Grab a copy 🌈 #YoursRetro #JudyGarland

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Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Very much enjoyed @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social take on Twitter X-iting and the joys of Bluesky, here: cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.or...

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Delighted to be hosting @nedpotter.bsky.social for a repeat of his popular course on everything @bsky.app this Friday lunchtime (March 21st). You can book a place via the @ukeig.bsky.social web site. Ned’s depth of knowledge on this ascending social media platform is inspiring 👏 @cilip.bsky.social

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Gary Horrocks @garyjhorrocks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This hits the stands in the UK on Thursday and is available to purchase internationally online. A labour of love to write this. Such a difficult subject, but done with respect and affection 💕 #YoursRetro

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