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Cambridge Library Group @camlibgroup.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

For our November event, we'll be joined by @laramarshall.bsky.social from RNIB to talk about Enabling Accessibility in Libraries. Thursday 20th November, 6pm via Microsoft Teams. Sign up via: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... forms.gle/gxpwUhtSBJtm... Members free, non-members welcome for £4

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CLG November - RNIB, Lara Marshall

Date: Thursday 20th November Time: 5.45pm for 6.00pm start Location: Online via Microsoft Teams Price: Free for members Contact email address: camlibgroup@gmail.com Event details Enabling accessibil...

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Excited to be part of #HillingdonLibraries crime festival on 21 June & interviewing the fab #CLTaylor and #NicciFrench! If you're down that way please do pop along. Tickets are only £8 for a day of crime authors, talks, book signings and there's a bar 😉 discover.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/1442...

An image of a dark crime scene with yellow and black tape going across it. The headline text reads Hillingdon Libraries Crime Festival. The the subheading lists all the authors names involved - Rev Richard Coles, Mark Billingham, Fiona Cummins, CL Taylpr, Nicci French, Elly Griffiths, Kristen Perrin, Orlando Murrin and S J Bennett.

An image of the husband and wife duo Nicci French looking at the camera and smiling, with a green background. The headline reads Hillingdon Libraries Crime Festival and there is an image of their latest book "The Last Days of Kira Mullan".

An image of author CL Taylor looking at the camera pensively with her hand underneath her chin on a yellow background. The headline reads "Hillingdon Libraries Crime Festival " and their is an image of her latest book "It's always the Husband".

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The best crime novels I've read in a long time and by someone I rather like too! Excellent holiday read 😎 @beckycbrynolf

Lara sitting on a beach lounger at a hotel in Greece, reading "I found a body" by Becky C Brynoff

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Swansea University Transcription Centre @sutranscription.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Fantastic feedback from @laramarshall.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social following the Share the Vision visit: "I'm so pleased that you could be part of this tour and that we can promote even more the wonderful work that Swansea Uni is doing! ... thank you for being such lovely hosts." ☀️ #FeedbackFriday

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Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📢 📢 Take a look English public libraries’ folk. The next round of the Libraries Improvement Fund is heading your way. The Libraries Improvement Fund (LIF) will open for expressions of interest on Tuesday 6 May 2025. Full guidance on @artscouncilengland.bsky.social’s website. 👇 👇

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Libraries Improvement Fund (LIF) Round 4 Guidance for applicants

Guidance for applicants for the Libraries Improvement Fund round 4

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

6 months without you Dad 💔 I am not resigned.

Dirge without music by Edna St Vincent Millay

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind;
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, - but the best is lost.

The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, -
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
In the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 22/03/2025

Words To Live By Number 202

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

22nd March - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #BookChallenge 1/2

The front cover of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley. The top half of the cover has an image of a young man wearing nothing on the upper half of his body, looking at his reflection in a body of water, potentially a lake. There are green shoots coming out of the lake and a bare tree with no leaves behind him. The bottom half of the book is the title and author text on a black background.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

21st March - The autobiography of Kathryn Janeway by Una McCormack. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #BookChallenge 1/2

Front cover of "The autobiography of Kathryn Janeway: The history of the captain who went b further than any had before." There is an image of the starship voyager from a birds eye view with the Starfleet emblem on top of it. Both of these are on a purple background.

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

“Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.” Dave Willis The world doesn’t need more people pointing out what’s wrong - it wants even more people lifting others up. Use your own light to brighten other’s path! 🧡 #kindness #positivity Picture by Joyfulsmolthings

Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make your shine any brighter. Picture of a candle with a flame burning green background black writing.. picture by joyfulsmolthings

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

20th March - Shark Heart (A Love Story) by Emily Habeck. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

Front cover of "Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck. There is the silhouette in the image of a Shark made up of yellow, orange and red flowers.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

19th March - I am enough by Marissa Peer. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

Front cover of "I am enough: mark your mirror and change your life" by Marissa Peer. With a picture of Marissa peer looking into the distance. She has a wide brimmed hat on and is wearing a black top.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

18th March - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

The front cover of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher. You can see half of her face and iconic "Danish pastry" side bun hairstyle from Star Wars with a pen speared through her side bun in her hair.

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Designing Libraries @designinglibraries.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The “Public Library of the Year” award is presented by @iflaglobal.bsky.social with the aim of honouring new public libraries. Baker & Taylor is the proud main sponsor of the award. You can apply from March 18th - May 25th 2025 designinglibraries.org.uk/news/call-fo...

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Call for IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award 2025

The Public Library of the Year award is presented by the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions, to honour new public libraries

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

16th March - Exquisite by Sarah Stovell The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

The front cover of Exquisite by Sarah Stovell. There is a picture of what looks like the outline of a woman's body with a house in the middle where it dips.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

13th March - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge

Front cover of "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. There is a simple image of a woman in a red dress with a white hood. You can see the woman at all.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

9th March - The Story of my Life by Helen Keller. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

The front cover of Helen Keller's autobiography "The Story of my Life". There is a picture of Helen on the front cover sitting down with one hand on a braille book and another hand holding and smelling a rose.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

11th March - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day(or almost!). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

The front cover of "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn. The word Geek is written in big red letters on a green background on the top half of the book and Love is written in green letters on a red background on the lower half of the book. At the very top in small print is a quote from author Audrey Niffenegger that reads "The strangest and most marvellous of American novels".

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

10th March - Mermaids: Lusts and legends of a rebel sisterhood by Sophia Kingshill. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day. Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge #mermaids 1/2

The front cover of the book "Mermaids: Lusts and legends of a rebel sisterhood" by Sophia Kingshill. The front image shows a painting of a mermaid with red hair holding a mirror in which has the picture of a skull on it, in one hand and in her other hand she's holding an anchor. She's coming out of the sea and perching on a rock.

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Alexa Heinrich (she/her) @alexaheinrich.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Three years ago today, the day before my 31st birthday, I launched the Accessible Social website. Since then, more than 110,000 people worldwide have visited the site, representing nearly every country on the planet. I couldn't be prouder of Accessible Social and the many people it has helped. 🎉

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Accessible Social

Accessible Social is a free resource and education hub that helps marketers and content creators learn about accessibility and how it relates to social media.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

9th March - Joyriding the Storm by Vanessa Kisuule The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

The front cover of the poetry collection "Joyriding the Storm" by Vanessa Kisuule. The image of the cover shows a pair of open hands holding with water that's running out of them and a red boat made of paper floating on top.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

8th March - Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr. The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

The front cover of the book "Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf" by Catherine Storr. It has an orange cover with an illustration of a young blonde girl holding a saucepan and nice smells coming out of it, next to a large wolf who is enjoying the smells.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

7th March - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1/2

The front cover of the book "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula LeGuin. There is a subtitle underneath that reads "A Classic of Science Fiction". The cover is completely blue, showing two medieval looking cities connected by a bridge.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I've been looking for a new book challenge and this seems perfect! The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Fancy joining me? In the post below the person has chosen "In the Woods" by Tana French. #booksky #books #bookchallenge

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Coral, yr Bird Friend @parodybit.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm seeing SO MANY posts without alt text, all of a sudden. Pals, please, if an image is worth sharing, it's worth sharing with everyone. Take a moment, click the "+ ALT" at the top of the image preview, and describe what's there for people who can't see (or just can't load) images.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Swiss Cottage library is 60 years old and I was very excited to be invited along to her birthday party and launch of the new children's library. The children's library has loads of neat accessibility features and even Wurlitzer jukebox that plays audiobooks! Massive well done to the team!

The outside the Swiss Cottage library, which was called a masterpiece of civil engineering when designed by Basil Spence in 1964. It's a large concrete building shaped like a cigar laying on it's side with two rounded ends.

A fabric tactile sign at the end of a bookcase. The sign is yellow with black text on it saying "Arts and Recreation".

A large central corridor with high ceilings and a long table running along it with a blue table cloth. At the end of the table is a gold banner that reads "Happy 60th Birthday". The table is laden with food and drink.

A large fabric toy octopus that sits over 1 meter high. There are lots of different fabrics and textiles covering the toy. My hand is reaching out to touch it.

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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Clit-erally the best thread you'll read all day. #Braille200

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Early morning love poem.

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RNIB Scotland @rnibscotland.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We’re at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow until 3pm today, as part of our Braille and Beyond event! Come and say hello to us in the Moir Dyer room if you can!

A sign which reads “Braille 200” and the same in braille below.

On a table with historical braille and RNIB-related items, the photo focuses on a retro version of a Sooty Box.

Stephen from RNIB Scotland speaks to visitors at the event, next to a table of braille-related products.

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RNIB Scotland @rnibscotland.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We had a lovely visit to the Mitchell Library today, as part of our Braille and Beyond tour to celebrate #Braille200! We'd love to thank Glasgow Libraries for their support in organising the event! For more information about the Braille and Beyond Tour, visit our website: bit.ly/3E7Ro7c

Dave from RNIB speaking at the podium in a panel room with an audience and a TV behind him, with the plaque displaying "Braille 200" in front of him.

Matthew and Conor from RNIB having a wee chat at the event. Conor is wearing a pink "RNIB" branded t-shirt.

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Imogen Negomi @im-negomi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

readingagency.org.uk/library-of-t... Just remembered Library of the Year category has Deadline 30 Jan I gotta be in work on Tuesday for engineers so will finalise. My staff deserve to be celebrated for all they've done for our library community ✨️📚🖤

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Celebrate Your Library: The British Book Awards ‘Library of the Year 2025’ Submissions Are Open! - The Reading Agency

Calling all UK and Irish public libraries! Showcase your most innovative reading projects and community initiatives. Submit your entry for the British Book Awards 'Library of the Year 2025' and celebr...

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

200 years ago, Louis Braille invented the 6-dot tactile written code that would become known as braille. Here’s what my first name would look like in braille. Happy #Braille200! Find out more about Braille 200 and how you can celebrate with us: rnib.org.uk/Braille200

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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

less talking about adding alt text in 2025 more actually adding alt text in 2025

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Sarah @sarahvanpelt.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Im sorry but there’s a new standard now if we are talking about acting range.

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Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.org.uk · 20/12/2024

Participating in cultural activites has a significant impact on people's quality of life, major new research suggests. Public #Libraries offer a huge range of free cultural activities. This new study is further evidence of the need to fund them adequately. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds

Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work. I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a

The book Smart Blonde by Dolly Parton on a blue library trolley

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘Needles’.

This poem, entitled 'Needles' is presented in the form of a Christmas tree. These words form the shape of the tree:

I
wrote
a poem
in the shape
of a Christmas
tree but then forgot
to water it and only a few

days
later
there

And these words are distributed around the base of my poem 'tree' as if they've fallen off it:

were
words
all
over
the carpet

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Unfortunately, this happens too much. Please do take note, you would never ask someone to travel without their glasses, hearing aids or other sensory support devices. These dogs are fully trained and people are more likely to misbehave than they are @rnib.bsky.social

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

One thing I'm especially loving as part of #Braille200 is that whenever I'm lucky enough to go to a library in a different part of the country to celebrate we get to create some #BrailleBhajis! We only had enough to spell (capital B) Brl 200 but you get the idea. P.S Everything got eaten.

Onion bhajis laid out on a dining table respecting the braille code spelling Brl 200.

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Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Sep 24-Aug 25 marks the 200th anniversary since the invention of Braille! Imagine never being able to read or have access to information and then someone from your community empowers you to read, write, be literate and independent. If you’d like to join in the celebrations get in touch #Braille200

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Robert T Kirkwood @talking-books.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We love audiobooks here, thanks for making your book accessible and if you want to talk/rant/cry about the process we'd love to talk to you on Read ON about it and plug it to our listeners! pod.link/ROTAS

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Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

A weekly show all about audiobooks recorded at the RNIB Talking Book studios. We talk to your favourite authors and narrators, along with reviews and news about new audiobooks. Presented and produce...

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Love these images and quotes from a threads account for #femalepoetssociety - I feel like reposting and sharing it on here, here’s some Frida Kahlo with your Friday morning coffee Xx #fridakahlo #fridayfrida #art #surrealism

Picture of Frida Kahlo with red ribbons in her hair - Text: Frida Kahlo 1907- 1954 “Rebellion against everything that chains you.”

Portrait of Frida with green background - text reads
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do...”

Frida on a roof, bricks in background, the text reads “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."

Painting of Frida by Frida, in this painting we see sun and moon, day and night, she is healthy in red and sick in bed in white, past and present, reality and dream, the multitude of her experiences - ARBOL DE LA ESPERANZA MANTENTE FiRME.
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

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Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📢📢 Calling all libraries folk! Join the European Cultural Foundation’s webinar series showcasing past and present library and community projects working towards a more vibrant, inclusive, green and connected Europe. There are some cracking projects here! culturalfoundation.eu/stories/what...

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Free webinar series: If Librarians Ran Europe – European Cultural Foundation

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