In conjunction with MyChronicle Book Box, I’m giving away one of their November crime boxes (contents in next tweet). To enter: 🎄be following both MyChronicle Book Box & myself 🎄 RT this tweet Open internationally. Entries close midnight 1 December. Good luck! 🎄

🔔JINGLE ALL THE BELLS!🔔It's time for our #Christmas GIVEAWAY!🎁 #WIN a set of beautiful Christmas books by @Alex_T_Smith thanks to Macmillan Children's Books. Like, follow, RT & tag a friend by 4.00pm 03/12. Ts & Cs on website HO! HO! HO!

For those worried my account is suddenly retweeting loads of comps, it's cos I just discovered a book giveaway account 😁📚 I'm done now 😊

🎄Christmas Giveaway🎄 I haven’t done a giveaway for ages! To start off this festive season, I am giving away one hardback copy of one of my favourite reads this year #fourthwing Just follow, like and RT/repost. UK only. End on 9th December, good luck! ❤️ #Giveaway

This is the price they put on love: How the Home Office barred most British citizens from living with someone they met overseas open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/…

Might be of interest to.... UCL Information Studies IAML/AIBM IAML (UK & Ireland) Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC) @ARLIS_UKI Art Libraries Society of North America CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group . Please retweet widely :-)

If your employer wants you to use multi-factor authentication, then I would say they need to provide you with two internet-connected devices to do it. I'm all for improved security, but since when was it ok to make my personal phone essential for accessing my work email account?

My first Guardian Books cartoon for 2024

A cartoon about #libraries for Guardian Books

starting a cleaning service for people with ADHD. I won’t be doing any of the actual cleaning, I’ll just be calling you at random times to tell you I’m on my way to your house and I’ll be there in about 45 minutes

Want to hear more about LIS/info studies research? Free research open day on 3/6, with lots of fab talks. Includes me talking about classification scheme analysis 😁, Alison Hicks on information avoidance, Charlie Inskip on EDI in LIS, and Vanda Broughton on Ranganathan 😁😁😁.

Do you work in an academic or research library in the UK? I'm conducting research into the workplace safety of library staff as part of my UCL Information Studies MA and am looking for people to complete my survey. Link below! Please feel free to retweet. qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_6X…

Two years of work, nearly 1000 people, and 6394 emails later: Best Practices for Queer Metadata is live! #critcat #critlib #metadata #critarch #critmuse zenodo.org/records/125805…

New CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group event aimed at anyone in the profession (new or experienced) interested in #cataloguing #metadata and #discovery and looking to expand their knowledge and network with colleagues. Registration is essential as places are limited!

Don't forget to register for our Uncataloguing Workshop with UKCoR on 31st July in Birmingham! cilip.org.uk/events/EventDe… #metadata #cataloguing #training #RDA CILIP CILIP Events

CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group #AGM will take place at 2pm on Wed 4th Sept '24 in the Wolfson Theatre, LSE. There will be elections for committee roles & a guest speaker: Hannes Lowagie, Metadata Manager at the Royal Library of Belgium. Free to attend; booking essential: tinyurl.com/4a9r7yb6

How many books should I take on holiday with me? (For Guardian Books ).

📢Event: Cataloguing with Confidence with Victoria Parkinson & Thomas Meehan When: Tue 29/10/24 Where: De Montfort University, Leicester. Learn the theory underpinning current cataloguing standards & gain practical knowledge in cataloguing books. More info at: cilip.org.uk/events/EventDe…