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Jeanette Castle

@jeanettecastle.bsky.social
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University Librarian at the University of the West of Scotland, Doctoral Student, Historian and Photographer. Researching the impact of public libraries on loneliness and social isolation in communities. SCURL Vice Chair and Director at SUP.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Ancient Roman altars found in Scotland to go on display. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ancient Roman alters to go on display in Edinburgh
Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal
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Luke Oakes @lukeoakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Oh, this is cool 📚 🚇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones
Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war
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Linnea Wallen @linneawallen.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
My PhD thesis - Memory and Museum Community Engagement - is available online! The work sits in the intersection(s) of museum studies, memory studies and sociology and it explores memory (work) in three Scottish museum community engagement projects: eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50...
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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
here's my presentation to the super #LKFS2025; super important conversations. Many thanks to @masudk.com and colleagues for showing the way to knowledge futures. and here's Allan Ginsberg on the library dancefloor! anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/k...
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Knowledge Futures
I want to start in a singular place of culture, the British Museum. From the Great Court one can now peer into that symbol of human knowledge, the round reading room.  We all somehow have it i…
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Sue Lacey Bryant @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Thoughtful discussion at #LKFS2025 @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social on the intersection of knowledge, culture & the Arts. The challange set out? @christophersmith.bsky.social: The Library is a dance floor, let’s dance. Amina Shah @natlibscot.bsky.social Be More Library. Bridget Bennett: Be Unquiet.
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a man and a woman in harry potter costumes singing into microphones in a library
ALT: a man and a woman in harry potter costumes singing into microphones in a library
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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Here's a great story alongside #LKFS2025 about one of the AHRC @rluk.ac.uk fellows Jonathan Bush "The Fellowship not only shaped the trajectory of my professional life but also opened up new possibilities for collaboration, advocacy, and long-term impact." www.rluk.ac.uk/blog-post-a-...
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Blog post | A Fellowship with Impact: Building a Legacy for Religious Archives - Research Libraries UK
We are pleased to publish this guest blog post by Jonathan Bush, Research Engagement and Collections Development Archivist at Durham University, and a Fellow (2021-22) from the AHRC-RLUK Professional ...
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“Libraries are being deconstructed” @aminatshah.bsky.social Is this to limit democratic critical thinking I wonder? #LKFS2025
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wonderful quote from @aminatshah.bsky.social at #LKFS2025 “libraries are helping people find light, helping people connect”.
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“What would it sound like if books had voices”. Love this quote from Professor Christopher Smith, at the start of the Knowledge Futures conference, organised by the University of Leeds Library. #LKFS2023 @masudk.com @christophersmith.bsky.social
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Masud Khokhar @masudk.com · 27/06/2025
See the full programme here conferences.leeds.ac.uk/knowledgefut... #LKFS2025
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Programme | Knowledge Futures Symposium
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Masud Khokhar @masudk.com · 27/06/2025
I am delighted that @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social and @lulgalleries.bsky.social are hosting the inaugural Knowledge Futures Symposium today. An amazing speaker lineup discussing the future of knowledge in a world full of mis/dis-information, fake news, and other contemporary challenges. #LKFS2025
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This week beginning 9th June, is #LonelinessAwarenessWeek, instigated by the @marmaladetrust . A smile and saying “hello” to somebody is always good, but there are real connections to be found at our #publiclibraries. #scottishlibraries @CILIPScotland @agescotland
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Jackie Proven @jackieproven.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
A fascinating insight into this new #openaccess book from @scotunipress.bsky.social
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The power of libraries in communities, is well articulated in this powerful award winning film from #Shetlandlibraries. #scottishlibraries #communities #dementia youtu.be/H-fRR6x55m0
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Every Day for The First Time by Louise Scollay – How a Library Changed My Life
YouTube video by European Cultural Foundation
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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Don't forget that you can join Richard for the online book launch 👉 📅 Thursday 22 May ⏰ 2pm BST Register here and submit your questions in advance: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fireside chat with Dr Richard Irvine on monastic life. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
We’d love to welcome you to our fireside chat with Dr Richard Irvine, the author of A vow of stability on Thursday 22 May 2025. Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of monastic life, explor...
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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🌟 It's publication day for 'The vow of stability: An ethnography of monastic life'! 👏Congratulations to Dr Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social on his unique account of life in a Catholic Benedictine monastery. Download #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #SocialAnthropology
An infographic advertising the publication of 'The vow of stability: An ethnography of monastic life'. The front cover appears on the left hand side. On the right hand side is a book description reading: 'A close study of the rhythms and challenges of community life based on long-term fieldwork in an English Benedictine monastery, this book considers the importance of stability in a world of movement and fleeting interaction, and how religious institutions endure and change through time.' The link to download the book is included: https://doi.org/10.62637/sup.bilp1551. Contact details are info@sup.ac.uk and www.sup.ac.uk.
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REEM @reemecon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🚀We’re thrilled to announce our updated Realist Economic Evaluation Guidance! Our guidance shows how realist and economic evaluation approaches can be combined in a practical way to enable better decision-making.🤔 shorturl.at/kjtyk #RealistEvaluation #EconomicEvaluation #DecisionMaking #NewRelease
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Just seen this show and it is fantastic! Worth getting a ticket if you are in Edinburgh.
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Learn about the theory underpinning current library cataloguing standards (AACR2, MARC21, RDA) and develop your practical cataloguing skills. In partnership with @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social. @cilipmdg.bsky.social www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
Cataloguing with Confidence Banner turquoise and burgundy featuring MDG and ALN logos.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass again addressed an audience at the church in Abbey Close, Paisley: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 19 March 1846
Newspaper accounts of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Paisley in March 1846.
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Reading for pleasure has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. And every reader is different, and enjoys reading different things in different ways. So please: let kids read for pleasure and celebrate books EVERY DAY - not just #WorldBookDay!
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Raibeart Ruadhainn @raibeartruadhainn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I’ve got a record out today. I'm very proud of it, give us a share if you like it. raibeartruadhainn.bandcamp.com/album/4am
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4AM, by Raibeart Ruadhainn
4 track album
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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Are you a reader in Scotland? 📚 Sign up to take part in Readers of Scotland, a research project aimed at exploring readers' experiences and helping more people access all the benefits that reading has to offer. www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...
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Readers of Scotland
Sign up to take part in Readers of Scotland, a research project aimed at exploring readers' experiences and helping more people access all the benefits that reading has to offer.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/02/2025
“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.” —Janice Galloway, writing in 2002 #GrayDay www.theguardian.com/books/2002/o...
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Rereadings: Lanark by Alasdair Gray
When it was first published 20 years ago, Alasdair Gray's novel Lanark was hailed as a modern classic. Two decades on, Janice Galloway finds the book as exuberant and seditious as ever
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A joy to attend the celebration #GrayDay at the wonderful #OranMor in Glasgow. Congratulations to the #AlasdairGrayArchive
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Glasgow City of Science and Innovation @gcosi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🏗️ UWS has launched a Workplace Learning Town Planning degree, designed to fill 500+ vacancies and support sustainable urban development. 📍 @uniwestscotland.bsky.social 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/new-workplac... #TownPlanning #SustainableCities #WorkplaceLearning
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New Workplace Learning Town Planning Degree Launched At UWS To Address Industry Shortage | Glasgow City Of Science & Innovation
Scotland is facing a critical shortage of town planners, with 500 vacancies across local authorities, prompting the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) to launch a Workplace Learning Town Plannin...
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Sean McNamara @seanmcnamara81.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
CILIP Scotland are delighted to be supporting the launch of the #LoveLibraries campaign. As part of the campaign we are hosting a range of inspiring case studies, have a read & help celebrate the difference Scotland's libraries and librarians make -https://www.cilips.org.uk/love-libraries-launch
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Must see exhibition now on in #Edinburgh.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Welp. There's EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU and LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, marked as "remove from all libraries" as of October. 🙃
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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 14/01/2025
This is an unsolicited PSA to support and promote your local library. They are such a special public good in more ways than are immediately obvious. Also a great bonus for researchers: if you can, find a way to partner with library professionals in your research ❤️
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Reading to improve my writing….. and to escape into another world. Always good to start a new book in the New Year.
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Linda Hull @lahull.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#AdoorableThursday Bodleian Library after hours tour
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R. David Lankes @rdlankes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We need a new information literacy. An information literacy that is no longer about generating skepticism with methods of interrogating information sources, but instead about coping with a world where ALL information is seen as suspect.
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Enjoying the downtime but thinking about next steps in my research into the impact of Scottish Public Libraries on loneliness and social isolation.
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In August a Liverpool library was set on fire in a fake-news fuelled riot, it's amazing how quickly & positively they've rebuilt. All library services can show their support on 12 Dec #ShareTheLight #SpellowLibrary #LibrariesChangeLives
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Light Up Your Library - Culture Liverpool
Liverpool is bringing the light back next month as city prepares to reopen the library and community hub which was torched during the summer’s racist riots.
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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📣 Big news! After a successful launch we are delighted to announce that SUP has expanded its scope to include submissions from researchers at all UK higher education institutions! Let's publish more #OpenAccess books 🔓📚 Read all about it here: www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis...
Breaking news: SUP us now open to submissions from all UK HEIs! Contact us: visit https://sup.ac.uk or email editorial@sup.ac.uk.
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Simon Bains @simonjbains.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I've not come across a starter pack focusing specifically on senior leaders with overall responsibility for university libraries (dean, director, head) so thought I'd start one. I'm sure I've missed plenty of people, so let me know to be added! go.bsky.app/7DgUMvf
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Best weather for a writing day 😊#staysafe #staywarm #professionaldoctorate #publiclibrariesimpactonloneliness #scottishpubliclibraries
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Always inspired by the #SCURLEDI network discussions. We are reviewing the EDI toolkit for #SCURLmembers across #highereducation. www.scurl.ac.uk/edi-toolkit-...
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EDI Toolkit Home — SCURL
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Michelle B @michelleab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
*waves to new followers* Did you know I co-run a conference called Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC)? And our call for papers is out now? It closes next week (Thurs 28th Nov) so get your thoughts to us! sites.google.com/view/calccon...
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CALC - Call for Papers
Stage 2 of our Call for Papers (CfP) is now open. This is an open call for papers so anyone can submit a proposal. We welcome research, discussions, exchanges of experience and project reports. If you...
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books
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Andy Priestner @andypriestner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Please share! The Call for Papers is now live for UX in Libraries 9, 10-12 June 2025 in Liverpool: ‘Trust the Process’. If you work in libraries and are involved in user experience research or design work then you might want to submit a paper proposal. Full details: uxlib.org/2024/11/14/c...
Microphone on stand bathed in blue/pink light
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Selena Killick @selenakillick.com · 18/11/2024
Helpful question at #SCONUL conference on how we can educate our students on Cyber security. If you want to use it, the free Open University course on cyber security is here:
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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online
This free course, Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how ...
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Catriona @drcatrionao.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#edusky #education #SEN #ASN folks have a look at this fantastic research and resource and help out my colleague, will you?! Thanks
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Reading one of those books that you don’t really want to finish! Fabulous stories with the library at the centre. Enjoy! #books #libraries #read
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below
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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Sharing this moving story about working in a public library, written by Louise Scollay from @shetlandlibrary m.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fR...
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Every Day for The First Time by Louise Scollay – How a Library Changed My Life
YouTube video by European Cultural Foundation
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Darren Flynn (he/him/his) @patchedelbows.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
📣Librarians working in a UK university library?📣 Want to help my research looking at the social backgrounds of UK academic librarians? Having a (maybe) final push for new participants in my questionnaire 👇 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... #Skybrarians #LibrarySky #LISResearch
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 21/08/2024
Feeling a bit isolated in the library world? You're not alone! The NLISN buddying scheme is here to connect you with someone who gets it. Sign up today and find your community! #NeurodivergentAndProud #Libraries #NLISN 📚 nlisn.org/buddying-sch...
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