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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 22h

Georgia is known for its wine, so you know I will! 🇬🇪 🍷

Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 22h

I have now done a whole three months in my new job, and whilst life outside libraries is weird, it’s pretty ok. Still, a whole three months means it’s time for a holiday to reward myself for going back to being a wage slave, so I’m off to Georgia tonight!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When you decide to quit your job we could definitely set ourselves up as a consultancy company called Monkey Butler Librarians Inc. Guaranteed money maker.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I cannot help but feel it is one of those words that really shouldn't ever have to be spelled correctly. There's some Ls and Is & everything else is filler. Also, what is wrong with being a 'go-between librarian'? Or a 'monkey butler librarian', which is what is essentially is?

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Liaison. As a former liaison librarian who now works on customer liaison it is quite a crucial word to be able spell and yet it still takes me a couple of goes to get it right.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Something I learned today is that when you live alone and work from home the first time you find out you're losing your voice is when you try to talk in a meeting and end up just croaking at people instead.

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Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hello #archives #digipres hive mind! I wonder if you can help? I'm looking for examples of Digital Asset Manager job descriptions. Does anyone have anything you can share with me please? Many thanks

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Beaver Forgot: Damn It!

Alt: Beaver Forgot: Damn It!

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Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that as an academic smackdown: “not sure that the defense of that PhD would be succesful”.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am old enough now to be saving up for tattoo removal, rather than getting new ones.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Knuckle tattoos are where it’s at. Temporary ones done with sharpies, as I am too much of a flibbertigibbet to decide on permanent ones.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Am I trendy then?! I very occasionally get a gel polish on my natural nails, but that’s a once a year occurrence at best.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am going to clean the inside of the car. This is going to be a major undertaking as it has not been done since 2022. Do not judge me.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lovely. I expected nothing less from you.

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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble

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Simon @simonxix.com · 23/09/2026

Are these the same UK Higher Education providers who have all uncritically subscribed to LLM platforms like ChatGPT Edu? Who continually recontract with the same proprietary software providers like Ex Libris Group for library systems?

The report findings reveal that on a scale of one to five, where one demonstrates institutions are at a reactive stage of digital maturity and five an integrated stage, the aggregated sector score was 2.84. This indicates that, on average, UK higher education providers have moved beyond reactive investment in digital infrastructure and are embedding more strategic approaches and proactive practices.

The results also show:

Reliable, safe and secure digital infrastructure is the highest-rated aspect of the assessment
Digital capability, including AI capability, has the lowest maturity ratings
Funding or investment is the most frequently cited single barrier to further progress, followed by staff capacity and time

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A toast to us and all other difficult women, wherever they may be!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am drinking red wine tonight. This means it is officially autumn, for those of you who set your clocks by my drinking habits.

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 09/09/2026

#openaccess colors are BROKEN. Gold, Bronze, Green, Diamond, Hybrid... They are journal-centric, mix access and business models of journals, etc. We formed a working group to recommend how OpenAlex could implement a new classification system. Here's our report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Recommendations for Revising the Open Access Classification System in OpenAlex

The open access (OA) color classification system used by Unpaywall (i.e., Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, and closed) was introduced in 2018 and has since become widely used across the ecosystem, includi...

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean, really on any risk assessment all you need to put down for mitigations is 'do not invite Kate'. Easy.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Important to note, play dough has gluten in it. Not a problem for 99.9% of coeliacs, but if you’re the idiot kind who can’t keep their fingers out of their mouth then bad things can and do happen. I will not be taking questions on how I know this to be the case.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s not really about the finishing though, is it? I was looking at some yarn I span around 20 years ago with the full intention of knitting it into a something, but it turns out I just like having it and petting it occasionally. I love my precious home spun yarns.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nice, very nice. I’m restricting myself to one project at a time, so am working on some socks for me with yarn I got in NZ last year. I think you should have knitting webinars instead of Counter ones.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can people also ask about your current knitting projects?

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tried to write metadata in an email, managed to spell it meatdate. Also mistyped my own name. How’s your day going?

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Domi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is the OpenFest week! We have started our annual open research conference with a panel around Citizen Science. If you still want to join us online for the rest of the sessions throughout the week, please register here: libguides.shu.ac.uk/openresearch...

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But to open a Diet Coke as a 40 something year old? Quite embarrassing, I think

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s a great day, with great company, watching the greatest sport. More days like this, please!

Me and a female friend, I have my arm round her shoulder. Edgbaston cricket ground is behind us.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been there, done that one as well!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In a moment of utter patheticness I couldn’t open my bottle of pop and had to ask a nice man at the train station if he would help me. Embarrassing does not come close to describing how I feel right now.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I mean, my initial thought that it would be a session about self pleasure, which is something I am all in favour of but not from HR. But palmistry? Get in the bin.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s very boring and yet also full of peril at the same time. I don it recommend it.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cheltenham is a bit far to drive to and from in a day. And the M42 needs to take a long hard look at itself and think about how it can do better.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To be coeliac is to never knowingly be without an emergency pack of Nairns GF oatcakes.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That’s excellent, they’re a great group of people in that department!

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

“we have chosen to cut services for heavy users because, bitch, you had it worse before the plague that very briefly brought people together & improved access to many things for everyone—so don’t complain, it could be worse” is absolute fucking bullshit.

A pandemic response lasting six years
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed libraries and disrupted access to scholarship, JSTOR increased the free reading limit from six articles every 30 days to 100, helping people continue their research. We kept the higher limit in place long after widespread library closures ended.
During that time, we learned more about how people use the program. Approximately 98% of active free-reading users access 10 or fewer articles in a 30-day period. Setting the limit at 10 preserves the current experience for the great majority of readers while remaining above the program's pre-pandemic limit. Readers who are already in the middle of a 30-day reading period on September 1 will retain the 100-article limit until that period ends. The new limit will begin with their next 30-day period.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today I have been talking about the REF and I didn’t have flashbacks or a twitchy eye even once. I am healing….

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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hey, professor here. Also librarian. Read all the smut you want. That shit counts. Read graphic novels, read children's books, read long-form articles, listen to audiobooks; it all counts. We do not care. Just don't read fascist propaganda. or JKR. #ValorForEveryone!

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Only if it’s a Paddington Bear hard stare, and I know you are more than capable of those.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’ll be there, like all the cool kids. Hard to believe our little baby press is turning 10. And yes, even though I’m not officially WR libraries any more I still class myself as a family member. Like an aunt who you only see once a year and gets drunk at the party but is loved by all. Probably.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026

Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And it’s great that libraries own these outright, so the provider couldn’t suddenly just remove access if it was in their greedy monetary interests to do so…

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