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Did you know that the IAEA Lise Meitner Library collection contains more than 1.3 million print and electronic resources? It covers all areas of nuclear energy as well as non-nuclear topics such as international relations, information technology and project management. via @IAEA
Most of the collection is available online:
https://www.iaea.org/resources/library
Libraries are under assault.
A 🧵 about what authors can do to support them:
I've been touring every local #library in the PGH Carnegie library system and getting my library passport stamped. Then posting about that and telling folks delightful stories about my adventures and encouraging them to *just use the library* because they get funding based on circulation.
History of the National Library of Scotland
29 May, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh – free
2025 marks the 100th birthday of the National Library of Scotland as it currently is – a public resource tasked with preserving the literary heritage of a nation. However, the Library’s story did not begin in 1925. Robbie Mitchell & Ralph McLean explore the five centuries of history that made the Library what it is today.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of-the-national-library-of-scotland-tickets-1257982041149
Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration.
They Think You Should Be, Too.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-trump-administration-cuts_n_67e59789e4b0455df70b3aa2
18th-Century Portuguese Library Has Bats That Protect the Priceless Books Housed Inside
By Eva Baron
https://mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/
The Bat, a poem by D.H. Lawrence at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT
When your cat comes to visit you at work.
#Trump names new acting head of Institute of Museum and Library Services : NPR
“…members of #DOGE showed up at the Institute of #Museum & #Library Services, which helps to fund libraries and museums across the country and whose elimination #Trump called for in an executive order last week.
They sent employees home, swore in a new acting director in the lobby, and proceeded to cancel its contracts and grants.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5335600/library-museum-funding-doge-sonderling
Today, #library staff at the #University of #Groningen joined the #strike against the proposed budget cuts to #HigherEducation in the #Netherlands.
We also asked #students to share their thoughts on a whiteboard: Imagine the university without a library. What would that mean to you?
Here's what some of them wrote:
(Photo credits staff: Manuel Reyes @manu)
A little library humor to brighten your day. Seen at my local library.
Thank you, mysterious Cathy.
Hi, I'm Babette. I work in #communications at the University of #Groningen #Library @Bibliothecaris, developing ways to share knowledge across academic and public spaces - hopefully with meaningful impact.
Interested in open and ethical approaches to research communication and how mass #media shape the public sphere.
Riddrie Public Library on Cumbernauld Road in the east of Glasgow. Built in 1938 to serve the people living in the Riddrie Housing Scheme, which had been establiahed on a greenfield site in the 1920s, it was the first permanent purpose-built library constructed in one of Glasgow's new outlying housing estates.
#glasgow #library #glasgowlibrary #riddrie #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowbuildings
Possilpark Library in the north of Glasgow. Built in the 1910s, it was designed by George Simpson.
#glasgow #library #glasgowlibrary #architecture #architecturephotography #possilpark
My article on the #library of the Sufi brotherhood al-Nāṣiriyya in Tamgrūt, a small village in the far south of #Morocco, has finally been published. Founded in the #seventeenthcentury, with more than 4,700 #manuscripts still in place, it is a fascinating institution. Take a look!
#bookhistory #historyoflibraries #historyofthebook #sufism #maghrebstudies #islamicstudies
Today I happened to be at the memorial to the #bookburning. I overheard something interesting from the guide of some tour group. The window to the empty #library has two reasons: 1. the #books should not be replaced, the library should not be replenished. The shelves remain empty. What has happened cannot be undone, at most it can be prevented from happening again. 2. everyone should be able to see their own reflection when looking into the empty room - what would I have done?
