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Paola Marchionni

@pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social
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Head of engagement (digital transformation), working with university libraries and senior institutional stakeholders across academic, student, information, and research services. www.jisc.ac.uk/contact/staff/paola-…

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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Some thoughts on digital transformation and HE libraries from the @jisc.bsky.social digital transformation library lens programme. www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...
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Three things librarians can teach you about digital transformation - Research Information
Jisc's Paola Marchionni explains why academic libraries are essential to institutional digital transformation
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Interested to hear from libraries what it means to lead through complexity during digital transformation? Listen to this @jisc.bsky.social podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxTE... on How libraries contribute to shaping digital transformation | Jisc | Beyond the Technology
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How libraries contribute to shaping digital transformation | Jisc | Beyond the Technology
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Congratulations to @lancasteruni.bsky.social Library for winning the SCONUL library design award for their library extension and to London South Bank University Library for winning the service design award for their student portal and app. #SCONUL conference
Lancaster university library spacesLondon South Bank University MyLSBU student app
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Looking forward to the SCONUL conference today on Library transformation www.sconul.ac.uk/events/sconu... where I'll be presenting about the @jisc.bsky.social Digital transformation library lens www.jisc.ac.uk/taking-digit...
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SCONUL | Society of College, National and University Libraries
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Academic libraries lead digital transformation in different ways and for different reasons: here's a quick overview of how the pilot libraries in the Jisc digital transformation library lens programme are using the new library lens framework and why digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/2...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📢Just published: @jisc.bsky.social Digital transformation library lens www.jisc.ac.uk/taking-digit..., a tool for libraries to amplify, enhance and evidence their role in digital transformation. A big publication, but you can dip in and out! Thanks to SCONUL, @rluk.ac.uk and @cilip.bsky.social
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Digital transformation library lens - Jisc
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📢New @jisc.bsky.social report on Small Language Models for libraries and computational humanities: Practical opportunities and use cases for academic libraries and computational humanities researchers repository.jisc.ac.uk/10286/1/smal.... Lots of practical tips and a bit of history!
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Interested in peer review for open access books? Join the @jisc.bsky.social webinar on 19 June with colleagues from the PRISM service on how they can help: www.jisc.ac.uk/events/facet...
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Facets of trust: describing peer review procedure of open access books with PRISM” - Jisc
This event is an introduction to Operas’ Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) by Ronald Snijder from OAPEN, with some input from some researchers who will showcase how they use the ...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📖 Open book publishing - everything you've always wanted to know: check out the new #copimcompass compass.copim.ac.uk/books resources hub
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Books | Compass
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
💎DIAMOND open access publishing: lots of new resources on sustainability from the #DIAMAS project toolsuite.diamas.org available now on @eudch.bsky.social including advocacy, tools, business model, evidence base
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Welcome to the Diamond Open Access Tool Suite! | CAP portal
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Implementing rights retention at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social: read how they did it in this guest blog post for @jisc.bsky.social by Liesl Rowe, Senior Digital Library Advisor (Copyright) research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/04/0... More resources on IRRP Jisc Teams channels www.jisc.ac.uk/get-involved...
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Navigating the introduction of rights retention: Lessons from Leeds Beckett University - Research
This is a guest post by Liesl Rowe, Senior Digital Library Advisor (Copyright), Library and Learning Services, Leeds Beckett University  On 1 September 2024, Leeds Beckett University (LBU) formally introduced a new rights retention policy. This was the culmination of a year’s work. The project began in December 2022 with the appointment of our new […]
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Would you like to contribute to an international multilingual portfolio of digital humanities "lessons"? Consider peer reviewing for Programming Historian (English edition) @proghist.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Peer Reviewing for Programming Historian (English edition)
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Programming Historian as a peer reviewer. Reviewing for Programming Historian is a great way to learn new technical skills and engage with the digital h...
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Jisc @jisc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We're pleased to announce the first keynote speaker for #DCDC25 is Professor Katy Shaw, director of the AHRC Creative Communities programme. Find out more about her session and book your ticket here ➡️ ji.sc/3Epaje6
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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Updated @jisc.bsky.social records retention management guide provides advice and guidance to UK further and higher education. www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...
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Award-nominated guide update aims to help FE and HE organisations with records management - Jisc
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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Registration for DCDC25 is now live! The National Archives, @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @jisc.bsky.social invite you to ‘Choose your own future’: explore challenges, celebrate achievements & work as a common to find sustainable solutions. See you in Durham in July. dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/
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DCDC25 - DCDC25
A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being achiev...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you're a researcher in the social sciences or the humanities or work in a research support role, join the @jisc.bsky.social webinar to find out how the OPERAS European scholarly comms infrastructure can help you on 25 Feb www.jisc.ac.uk/events/the-l...
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The launch of Operas UK - Jisc
Join us for the launch of Operas UK! This event will show how national communities play a pivotal role in establishing connection points, helping to identify needs and providing services and training ...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is how @jisc.bsky.social is saving money to HE libraries that want to purchase in-perpetuity digital archival collections, courtesy of my colleague @kcols.bsky.social www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/uni...
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Universities save £1.2m through digital archives group purchasing scheme - Jisc
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In further signs of a changing @britishacademy.bsky.social we have appointed Liverpool University Press as our new publishing partner www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/liverpo...
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Liverpool University Press selected as new publishing partner
The British Academy has chosen Liverpool University Press as the new partner for its prestigious and long-running publishing programme.
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Some early insights into libraries' own perceptions of their role, position and challenges when it comes to "digital transformation" from our @jisc.bsky.social Digital Transformation Library Lens project, courtesy of @pfin25.bsky.social digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/01/0...
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Digital transformation library lens working group - some early insights - Digital collections
Do universities need digital strategies? As cuts in UK higher education start to bite, it has become clear that all universities should act strategically in deploying digital technologies. Jisc’s Fram...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
If you're interested in open science and open scholarly communication, join the @jisc.bsky.social webinar on OpenAIRE services on 13 Jan www.jisc.ac.uk/events/the-o...
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The openAIRE services for the UK - Jisc
This event is a presentation and discussion of OpenAIRE’s services and how they can be relevant for a UK context.
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Find out more about the National Library of Scotland Fellowship in Digital research to explore the opportunities AI can afford to cultural heritage collections using their excellent Data Foundry data.nls.uk/projects/dig...
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The National Library of Scotland Fellowship in Digital Research 2025-26 – Data Foundry
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I'm really liking the British Library Scholarly Communication Newsletter that @susan-librarian.bsky.social compiles every month, packed with news about projects, reports, conferences, reading and so much more! If you want to subscribe go to www.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Scholarly Communications Team
Scholarly Communications Team Email Forms
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Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Discover how the @jisc.bsky.social group purchasing scheme saves HE institutions money on buying digital archival collections: www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-arch...
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Digital archival collections group purchasing scheme - Jisc
Collectively lowering the cost of acquiring digital archival collections.
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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Perhaps folks would like to see a work in progress I've undertaken with folks all across European Research Libraries. We're creating a set of gentle introductions for library professionals to Digital Scholarship and Data Science Essentials through Topic Guides. libereurope.github.io/ds-essentials/
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Digital Scholarship & Data Science Essentials for Library Professionals
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
And here the right link to the Jisc and RLUK (then CURL) report I mentioned in previous post, rluk.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Listening to the policy recs from the #TaNC programme zenodo.org/records/1383... reminded me of the Jisc Digitisation in the UK: the case for a UK framework report (early 2000s) zenodo.org/records/1383...: a lot has changed, a lot has stayed the same
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Neil Grindley @neilgrindley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I think the conclusion to the question "can or should you use machine learning to identify bias in collections?" was ... maybe. Best done very slowly and carefully. #unlockingcollections #TaNC
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Stuart Hall's "Whose heritage?" still valid today says prof susan pui san lok talking about #TaNC Transforming Collections project, which @jisc.bsky.social Archives Hub's team also contributed to
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
What IIIF can do IS simply impressive, a plea from the IIIF panel to make its implementation quick, simple and fun especially for non-techies #TaNC
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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Some ludicrously inconsistent responses from UK museums about the copyright status of their, er, out of copyright collections douglasmccarthy.com/2024/11/anar... Maybe of relevance to attendees at today's #tnac conference @lornahughes.bsky.social Brilliant work by @culturedoug.bsky.social
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Anarchy in the UK – Douglas McCarthy
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#ohos #TaNC "The national collection is a metadata problem",Prof Lorna Hughes. Couldn't resist sharing!
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
At #TaNC conference, Prof Lorna Hughes acknowledges building on 30 yrs of innovation, mentioning, among others, @jisc.bsky.social large scale digitisation programmes
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
At @jisc.bsky.social we're working with HE libraries to support them in their digital transformation journey, you can read more on this blog by my colleague @pfin25.bsky.social digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2024/11/1...
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Digital Transformation in academic libraries - Digital collections
Jisc has been at the forefront of supporting digital transformation in UK higher education through our digital transformation framework and toolkit. We are starting a new phase of this work to design ...
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National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
#NAGWebinarWeek continues! First up on our #OpenAccess day we have: @copim.bsky.social presenting "Towards 5 years of Copim: What has been done? What is still to do?" with @joedeville.bsky.social COPIM = Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
©️Rights Retention policies resources 🔦: from the Knowledge Rights 21 project www.knowledgerights21.org/retainyourri.... and @jisc.bsky.social www.jisc.ac.uk/innovation/p...
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Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Long worthwhile read @ithakasr.bsky.social A Third Transformation? Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing "Publishing organizations and content aggregators should prepare for scenarios in which users’ primary interactions with scholarly outputs are mediated by generative AI." tinyurl.com/244s3w7v
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A Third Transformation? - Ithaka S+R
For this report, we interviewed leaders in stakeholder communities about the potential impact of generative AI on scholarly publishing . The consensus among the individuals with whom we spoke is that ...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
It's World Digital Preservation Day today and we at @jisc.bsky.social have published some information on how we can help you with the aches and pains of digital #preservation researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2024/11/0...
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Digital Preservation—Advice & Guidance through to consultancy (Where does Jisc fit in?) - Research infrastructure and data
It’s a fact of (digital preservation) life that anyone attempting to implement digital preservation or actively engaged in digital preservation will experience problems—pain points. We here at Jisc ca...
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
If you are a librarian, information professional or knowledge manager, fill in the @cilip.bsky.social survey on #AI, even if you haven't used it! www.cilip.org.uk/page/ai-survey
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AI Survey for Librarians, Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers
'The deadline to complete the survey is 15 December 2024. In early spring 2025, we will publish the results in an open access paper to provide insights and analysis into the state of play of AI in our sector.
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
We've started sifting through the excellent proposals for the DCDC25 conference, 29-31 July 2025, on Choose your own future: resilient communities and sustainable solutions. Registrations will open early next year, watch this space👀https://dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/.
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DCDC25 - DCDC25
The call for papers for the 2025 Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference has now closed. Thank you for your submissions! A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come tog...
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Digital preservation – more than just storage 🫙 Did you know that @jisc.bsky.social #digital #preservation #consultancy recently provided essential support to the University of Aberdeen? Read more ➡️ www.jisc.ac.uk/member-stori...
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Digital preservation – more than just storage - Jisc
When the University of Aberdeen started to look at information management and consider how best to manage its collections, Jisc’s digital preservation consultancy provided essential support.
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Paola Marchionni @pmarchionni-jisc.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Join our free webinar on 7 Nov World Digital Preservation Day to find out how @jisc.bsky.social can help you with all things digital preservation www.jisc.ac.uk/events/digit...
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Digital preservation - advice and guidance to consultancy - Jisc
This online session is an opportunity for us to introduce you to Jisc's offer around advice, guidance and consultancy relating to Digital Preservation and how that fits into an holistic approach to ke...
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