Sarah Brundrett

Back from a fabulous long long weekend in Canberra, including time spent with friends, offspring and offspring of friends. Visits to ANU (+CNI), Mt Ainslie, ANBG and NGA. And the weather was glorious.

Night at the basketball....

#AHECS 2026 slides are up - doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Home from #AHECS. Fabulous experiences and learning. It's always lovely to be called out in a subsequent presentation, thank you @empressbat.bsky.social !

From 11-13 September, the Bodleian will open up spaces and show off collections not usually accessible to the public, for #OxfordOpenDoors 2026! Enjoy tours, storytelling, a Victorian printing press, and MUCH more. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-open-doors We can't wait to see you!

Spreading the word... including to #phdsky, #digihums #digitalhumanities #librarysystems #GLAM #skybrarians 🏛️🎓📜

@dannykay68.bsky.social 😱

I have zero geology credentials beyond occasionally picking up a cool-looking/pretty rock, but I do have an academically credentialled friend who wrote a paper... #geosciences #geology #earthscience #earthsciences #hyperspectral #grainsize #librarianfriendsrule www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

TIL that CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, via Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington's latest work, available until 6 August for free download. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New EU report: the multiple roles of public #libraries should be recognised and reinforced Investing in public libraries benefits society and democracy in the long run, study finds. culture.ec.europa.eu/node/4055

FINAL PREP for my course "Open as Antidote: Addressing the Big Challenges Facing Science" part of FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute #FSCI2026 Course info: force11.org/fsci/post/fs... AEST Wed 29-Fri 21 July 11-12.30pm Registration closing - register today!! whova.com/portal/regis...

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

This is what we mean by the whole “not everything is digitized” — not everything is fully *catalogued* yet! This is at the UK National Archives at Kew.

The proven benefits of #OpenAccess (OA) publishing in making important ideas available to a more diverse and global readership are particularly critical for humanities research. Read our full OA policy for detail on our funding and OA publishing options: uolpress.co.uk/publish-with...

What does it mean to be the world's oldest library? A BBC story about the lore behind the Merton College Library in Oxford with a few other notable mentions. 📚 www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Heading to see Alfie Boe at the Festival Theatre tonight... definitely a squeee occasion. I have been trying to see him sing live for years (and years).

📚 🏛️ #scholcomms #scholarlycommunications #openscholarship

The Clarion recently published a guide to ‘Every bookshop in Oxford’ and we are delighted to have to update it so soon: oxfordclarion.uk/every-booksh...

Australian Access Federation (AAF) workshop at @sahmri.bsky.social this morning with @rachelsbickley.bsky.social to provide feedback on, and engage with, the Top Five Trust & Identity themes for Australia's HE & research sector discussion paper. #academicsky #rdm #infosec aaf.edu.au/wp-content/u...

The Pets & their People exhibition continues @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library but if you missed our companion book display, the Science of Pets, in March you can still use the online reading list to catch up with any titles before or after your visit go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BookDisplay

The Friends of the (AU) Library present their first event of 2026 with Dr Roderick Hill in conversation about his books 'Chasing Solar Eclipses: A Comprehensive Guide' and 'Space to Live: The Search for an Alternative Home for Humanity.' events.humanitix.com/in-conversat...

The theme of this year’s Love Data Week is “Where's the Data?” We want to encourage thinking about the journey of your data from collection to access to preservation.❣️ We're excited to help the @cmu.edu community understand, use, communicate, and code with data. guides.library.cmu.edu/lovedataweek

Bursary deadline is this coming Monday! #digihums #digitalhumanities #dhoxss26 www.linkedin.com/posts/digita...

Save the Date: International #OpenAccess Week will be October 19-25, 2026. #OAWeek is an opportunity to join together, take action & raise awareness of the benefits of openly sharing knowledge. www.openaccessweek.org

caul.edu.au/in-principle...

I regret to report.... #whamageddon

I think you'll like this one @ashthelibrarian.bsky.social. #oer #oa

Aaand to round out #RAILS2025 the announcement that the new AU will host #RAILS2026... come and see us next year!

(Most of) the final panel for #RAILS2025... featuring Drs Anita Dewi, Jo Kaeding, Ellie Abdi and @lizzytait.bsky.social

Orphan works and remote learning bill introduced this morning parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea... #copyright #library

We still have some spaces left on our Christmas literary pub crawl! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/Festive-Pub-...

I had so much fun today at #RAILS2025 that I neglected to post! Ahh well, there's always tomorrow.

#RAILS2025 Doctoral Consortium presentation done! Fabulous to hear about all the in-progess and nascent research underway!

The first issue of JOI is out! joi-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/joi/index

I passed my Confirmation of Candidature (with minor corrections) yesterday!

There’s still time to join us in Charleston! Advance registration will be closing soon! ⏰ Register by 10/31 and skip the on-site fee. Hope to see you there! arevie.ws/4nYrFjE

Interesting timing reading this while attending today's Symposium #AIBeyond2025 "In the age of false information, we all need a good BS detector. Here’s how to sort facts from harmful fiction" author Professor Tony Haymet Australia's Chief Scientist www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...