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Jill Dye

@jilld17.bsky.social
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📚Head of Access at @natlibscot.bsky.social 📖Co-Editor of Library & Information History Journal🧾Hon. Treasurer of CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Group📓Books, libraries, singing, theatre & food.

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CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We are VERY excited to open the 📮call for papers📮 for #RBSCG26, which takes as its theme: ✨A Sense of Place: Collections and communities in context✨ and will explore the influence of place on collections and collections on places.
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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Had a wonderful time with @jilld17.bsky.social and Pat, while the @ghostsociety.bsky.social hosted an evening of matchmaking for ghosts featuring Play-Doh picnics, Loveheart poetry, a dance mat, a love gun, a theremin, and a ghost wedding. Excellent company, excellent hosts. Would date again.
Our application form for the Ghost Bachelor on behalf of our ghost Moby (he can't fill out the form himself as he's incorporeal).A Ghost Appreciation Society badge which we won from the mini grabber machine with our love tokens. Romantic poetry made from Loveheart sweets. It says: Hello! I'm shy...marry me? Too much. Sorry. Jill intently crafting an excellent picnic out of Play-Doh
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Booking is open for @cilip.bsky.social Library & Information History conference! It'll be at @natlibscot.bsky.social on 21 November! Featuring a genuinely stellar line-up, all in person. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-of... @cilipscotland.bsky.social @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social @arascot.bsky.social
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Freedom of Information/Information as Freedom
CILIP Library and Information History Group Conference 2025
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Some timely lunchtime reading...
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Shout out to my @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social colleagues for putting together a conference that looks fruitful, fun and is *practically free* rbscgconference2025.eventbrite.com
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CILIP RBSCG Conference 2025
Standards, Systems and Discoverability of Special Collections
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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
You might have noticed #SuperSheltie has been keeping a low profile since Twitter went all Musky. Well our National Library was missing him so much they sent a crack team up yesterday to find him! 🙂😎🐎 More @natlibscot.bsky.social action will be coming before long - and more #SuperSheltie
Three smiling women by a library van with a masked pony puppet.
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
8.31 out of Edinburgh seems to be the Librarian Express this morning. See you all at CILIPS! @cilipscotland.bsky.social
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Zooming down to London for a very brief visit with colleagues to present at @rluk.ac.uk event celebrating the role of libraries in research!
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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Went to an excellttalk by the fabulous @jilld17.bsky.social and the @natlibscot.bsky.social this evening. Unfortunately all my photos of Jill were unflattering, but my colleague and I loved this quote: law books lumped in terms of regard alongside random rubbish on the library shelves 😂
Photo of a slide displayed during a talk. An extract reads "we might at least establish a respectable nucleus, with every prospect of important accessions, which instead of the meagre and heterogeneous assemblage which now lumber our shelves, of law, medicine, midwifery, and all sorts of rubbish."
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Edwina Penge @edwinapenge.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Interested in big house libraries? My article about the library at the National Trust's Springhill is out now: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/lih.2025.0189 Many thanks to LIH's editors Nadine Kozak & @jilld17.bsky.social.
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The big house and the book-collecting game: notes on a partial twentieth-century library dispersal | Library & Information History
The big house library in Ireland was on a precarious footing in the early twentieth century. Successive sales assisted the demise, or diminishment, of the houses’ book collections. Libraries were ofte...
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Spending a very nice lunchtime on the hunt for images for a talk next month. Will never get tired of the layers upon layers of life that can be witnessed within one book ❤️
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Off to the land of my birth for a few days. Accent already threatening to return...
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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Best conference pack goodie I've seen in a long time from @leedslibraries.bsky.social #edge25
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Next up it's @nedpotter.bsky.social on library social media in a post-Twitter world #edge25
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Morning from the Edge 2025 conference!
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Excited to be sharing some of the more exciting stories from my @rluk.bsky.social funded research at @natlibscot.bsky.social in celebration of their 100th birthday! www.nls.uk/whats-on/whe...
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Where does an old book belong
Trace the movement of books from National Museum to National Library of Scotland in this fascinating talk by Head of Reader Services, Jill Dye.
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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Are you an info/knowledge professional in Edinburgh area? Would you like to network and discuss professional topics with others? Then book on the EKLIPs talk from @jilld17.bsky.social about the role of research in the profession on the 5th February below! scotcourts.libcal.com/calendar/Pub...
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a woman is sitting at a table with a phone in her hand and says " okay trust me "
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a phone in her hand and says " okay trust me "
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New year, new job? If you're passionate about how library collections, spaces and services can support people in entrepreneurship broadly defined this could be the role for you! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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Business and Enterprise Officer - Edinburgh
We’re looking for a Business and Enterprise Officer to extend the use of the Library’s collections, services and spaces by diverse audiences in support of entrepreneurship, business and enterprise. Yo...
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Woo!
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Glorious morning with an old friend today
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Abbotsford in morning, Trimontium Museum and Melrose in the afternoon, home via the big Sainsburys. A pretty perfect Saturday adventure.
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Had a very harsh lesson in being careful with WHEN and IF statements today. "Let me know when you get home" to a pal walking home along The Shore in the dark is not the time to mix them up.
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Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
View from the bus stop after a tremendous evensong. Not much makes me happier than Howells Gloucester.
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