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Peter Barr

@tweeterbarr.bsky.social

224 followers 130 following 71 posts

Associate Director - Collections and Digital Transformation, Library & Cultural Services, Manchester Metropolitan University. These views, though, are my own

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A powerpoint slide saying "An elephant in the room... I am aware how ridiculous it is for me to come here and lecture you about diversity"

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The old Arts & Humanities Librarian Twitter Header...

A manatee says to Art Garfunkel "Hello Art, I'm Hugh Manatee"

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#terrorinthelibrary all under the guise of 'engagement' with Sheffield Centre for the History of the Gothic

A cartoon featuring a toy platypus being driven mad by a painting

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Beginning with my abortive attempt to run a 2018 World Cup of Literature. Here is a group match between Argentina and Iceland refereed by the Biomed Central Turtle (the competition never got out of the group stage cos I had made it far too complicated and it didn't get the hoped for twitter pop)

Two novels (Fictions by Jose Luis Borges and The Atom Station by Halldor Laxness) lie on a fake football pitch overlooked by a stuffed turtle

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

You're welcome

Weird Elsevier Schmaltz saying "to the Librarians of the world, thank you"

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Back on the picket line with Library colleagues and @sheffielducu.bsky.social It's nice to wear shorts and all but It's a testament to how consistently mismanaged this place is that we've had to do this during blizzards and heatwaves

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Can you play "Everday AI writes the book" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions #researchintegrity #uksg2025

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

And here's a metaphor for the funding model of British higher education

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The sea... vast, unfathomable, treacherous. Just like academic publishing #amirite? * Made it to Brighton before sunset for #uksg2025 tomorrow (*follow me for more pithy metaphors throughout the conference - maybe)

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Even if they want to be out of selling books, even if they ultimately don't need libraries and want to transition to be being a data services company, their decision to trash the old world before they were in a position to move to the new seems a massive strategic error

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I get it, you're not allowed to say that it's cheese

Processed cheese with the description on the packet "a blend of partially reconstituted skimmed milk powder, cheese and vegetable fat"

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Just clearing out my google drive, and found this 2017 photo. Showing we were massively ahead of the AI curve at Sheffield

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Give me some of that sweet...

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