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Layla Bloom

@laylabloom.bsky.social
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Head of Public Programme & Cultural Engagement, University of Leeds Libraries

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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"Notions of Care- a response to Turner Prize 2025" roundtable today @lulgalleries.bsky.social starting off with a focus on joy and hope! #BD2025
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
BBC News - Leeds Uni lecture theatre block voted best city building - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Leeds Uni lecture theatre block voted best city building
Leeds' Roger Stevens Building was chosen from a shortlist of 10, all built between 1965 and 2025.
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Congratulations to Alice Boot, winner of the FUAM Graduate Art Prize 2025! #FUAM2025
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Leeds University Libraries @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We're thrilled that @jsendall.bsky.social is stepping into the role of Acting University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection @UniversityLeeds 🎉 His passion for inclusive leadership makes him the perfect fit to carry the Libraries forward. Exciting times ahead! #Libraries #HigherEd
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Exhibition preview talks by 3 of our wonderful #FUAM2025 finalists at the exhibition launch @lulgalleries.bsky.social tonight!
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Enjoyed the recent launch of 'Fragment and Form' @hmileeds.bsky.social with two young guides, who shared their impressions of art by Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays and Dominique White.
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
So happy to be celebrating @universityofleeds.bsky.social award of #universityofsanctuary status today - go team!🥳 Moving words from @cara1933.bsky.social and Sanctuary scholars, #LASSN, @retasleeds.bsky.social and @grabill.bsky.social
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Katie Fraser @katie-fraser.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today’s keynote is from Thanos Giannakopoulos taking about the roles of libraries in supporting Actions 29-33 relating to Science, Technology, Innovation & Digital Cooperation from the UN Pact for the Future www.un.org/en/summit-of... with examples inspired by the UN Hammarskjöld Library #LIBER2025
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Pact for the Future - United Nations Summit of the Future | United Nations
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Katie Fraser @katie-fraser.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Lastly, introducing us (well, me at least) to the UN 5 principles for information integrity www.un.org/en/informati... and the potential role for libraries, researchers and institutions, including in influencing the development of AI #LIBER2025
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United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity | United Nations
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thanos Giannakopoulos bringing a global perspective to the role libraries and universities can play to advance open science and @un.org SDGs #LIBER2025
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Great collaboration between libraries in Sweden around AI processing of old card catalogues- sharing and learning together! ❤️ #LIBER2025
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What a beautiful library at @tudelftlibrary.bsky.social! Fascinating prototype AI fortune teller project to re-engage students with the collection wall space. #LIBER2025
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Leeds University Libraries @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Last Friday, we hosted the Knowledge Futures Symposium 📚 We heard from inspirational speakers who examined how knowledge is created, shared and exploited today, and were challenged to think and discuss our role in creating a more equitable and open knowledge future. #LKFS2025 #Library #LibSky
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The celebrations aren't over - we have a bonus porcupine! This woodcut of a Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine can be found in the book 'Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, published in 1635. 📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio #WorldPorcupineDay #PorcupineDay #RareBooks
Cropped image of an opened book page with four columns of text in Latin. In the centre of the page is a large woodcut illustration of a Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine. The title in Latin above it is 'Hoitzlaquatzin'.
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Finally time to relax! #liber2025 reception remarks
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Finally time to relax! #liber2025 reception remarks
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Workshopping ideas for collaborative citizen science projects working with different GLAM institutions and research libraries #LIBER2025 and great case studies led by Alisa Martek and Dolores Mumelaš (Zagreb)
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Sara Kjellberg(Malmö) sharing useful tips for successful peer mentoring #LIBER2025
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Warm and inspiring presentation by @williamjnixon.bsky.social about the importance of informal networks for developing library leaders #liber2025, in the Emerging Leaders Programme cohorts @cgknowles.bsky.social
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Rousing call from Frédéric Kaplan #liber2025 for libraries to lead and curate LLM training, away from from commercial interests
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
#LIBER2025 kicks off, already with calls to confront the great threats to LIBERty and truth in the world today.
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 26/06/2025
Massive congratulations to the legends at @beamishmuseum.bsky.social, winners of Art Fund’s #MuseumOfTheYear award! A moment for the outfits 💯
Staff at Beamish dress in period attire at the awards ceremony for Art Fund’s Museum of the Year
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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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Masud Khokhar @masudk.com · 27/06/2025
“Data is never neutral” - here is @adamrutherford.bsky.social data checklist #LKFS2025 - a wonderful way to conclude today and the brilliant conversations we had today.
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Dr. Adam Rutherford speaking about science misinformation at #lkfs2025
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Beautiful intro to international perspectives by @jsendall.bsky.social #lkfs2025
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Alice Corble @dralicecorble.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Love the notion of the library as a "transdisciplinary collider space" articluated by Jonathan Bengston in his #LKFS2025 talk on ‪@uvic.ca‬ and the #KULAacademy - some impressive 'Liberating Knowledge Partnerships' going on there.
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Masud Khokhar @masudk.com · 27/06/2025
“The Library is a dance floor, let’s dance” what a wonderful statement by @christophersmith.bsky.social at #LKFS2025
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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The mandrake is part of the nightshade family – alongside potatoes, tomatoes and chillies. The mandrake plant was thought by many to induce love and good fortune. In reality it acted as a hallucinogen and a powerful laxative
A colour illustration showing a mandrake – its roots are a little like human legs, but in other respects it is entirely a plant – it has no head or arms, but rather leaves and seeds.Black and white illustration of a male figure, almost half-human, half-plant – it has arms, legs, a human head and torso, but also has leaves and seeds growing out of its heads. It is fully naked, with its arms behind its back.A colour illustration of a close up of part of a mandrake. Not human-like at all, but rather an accurate image of the leaves and flowers of the plant.A colour illustration showing a tree and, next to it, a mandrake – its roots are a little like human legs, but in other respects it is entirely a plant – it has no head or arms, but rather leaves and seeds.
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 15/04/2025
Bodleian job opportunities! Including three vacancies for Security Team members, an Employee Relations Manager, and a full time Library Assistant role working with our Special Collections. For more information on these posts: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs
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Careers
Current job vacancies, training and opportunities at the Bodleian Libraries
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Beautiful, cathartic installation by Sarah Roberts for 'Sick' exhibition @lulgalleries.bsky.social
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Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We are delighted to be hosting the #IIIF conference in Leeds 2-6 June. Find out more about IIIF and why it is an important standard for images, audio, video and soon 3D in our latest DLIP project blog post. leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/i...
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IIIF Conference, Leeds, 2nd to 5th June 2025 – Registration Open
Richard Parker writes… Colleagues have an exciting opportunity to learn about revolutionary new technological advancements transforming the digital accessibility of globally significant cultu…
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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🗨️ Great people skills? 👥 Proactive team leader? 🌟 Passionate about an outstanding service for our visitors? We want to hear from you! We're looking for a Research Centre & Galleries Supervisor to manage our fantastic Visitor Services & Teaching Support Team Apply jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Four people stood around a table in the Research Centre. One person is turning the page of an old handwritten manuscript for the others to see.
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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Do you think rare books, archival material, and visual arts are just the best? Do you have great organisational and people skills, to provide outstanding experiences that encourage others to feel the same? Well... Events & Engagement Assistant vacancy: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... 👀
A person in a red jumpsuit turning the pages of an old book resting on a cushion, so a crowd of people can see.
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Goosebumps listening to the Commoners Choir perform at the launch of #AnimatedActivism tonight! @lulgalleries.bsky.social www.commonerschoir.com
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Kate Dossett @katedossett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Brilliant new @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social exhibition now open: "Animated Activism: Women Empowered" features archives of @leedsanimation.bsky.social and #WomensAid @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #feministarchives
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Leeds exhibition celebrates city's link to feminist movement
Animated Activism: Women Empowered is running at the University of Leeds throughout 2025.
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Layla Bloom @laylabloom.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
First look/ listen to Alex de Little's Gair Wood sonic artwork proposal for the Laidlaw Library @universityofleeds.bsky.social !
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