Approaching critical library practice : CALC25 TAGS: antiracism | decolonialising | Diversity | Library I attended the online CALC25 [Critical Approaches to Libraries] Conference from 13 – 15 May 2025. The programme, slides and recordings are available at https://sites.google.com/view/calcconference/calc2025  It was great to see …Continue reading →

Reflections on Attending the BIALL Conference: Exploring AI and Legal Librarianship TAGS: AI | artificial intelligence | Law | legal information | Library | research This year, I was lucky enough to attend the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) conference for the very first time—and I hope it won’t be my last! …Continue reading →

Challenges, Changes and Collaborations– American Theological Library Association conference,  Pittsburgh June 18-21 2025 TAGS: artificial intelligence | conference | critical information skills | Library | theology I was delighted to be invited to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this year to speak at the Atla 2025 Annual meeting. It’s actually the second time I have been to a library …Continue reading →

Celebrating the Presbyterian Church of South Formosa TAGS: Christianity | missions | New College Library | rare books | Taiwan 南部基督長老教會設教七十週年紀念寫真帖 “In memory of the 70th anniversary of the Presbyterian Church of South Formosa” Yi-Chieh Chiu, Library Collections Services During recent cataloguing work at New College Library, this interesting volume …Continue reading →

AI vs the Imago Dei : views from US theological libraries TAGS: artificial intelligence | critical information skills | Diversity | Library | Philosophy | students | theology On Tuesday 18 June, I flew half way around the world to attend the Atla conference in Long Beach, California. There were two questions that Atla delegates asked me that …Continue reading →

Professional Recognition for Library teaching with the Higher Education Academy TAGS: information literacy | Library | professional development | teaching We recently celebrated the success of the latest member of the Academic Support Librarian team to gain Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Ruth Jenkins. I caught up with colleagues …Continue reading →

AI, Theological Libraries … and me TAGS: AI | artificial intelligence | conference The University of Edinburgh hosted the Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries conference this year at New College on 21-23 March. As usual there was the opportunity for discovering …Continue reading →

Meeting the challenges facing ecclesiastical libraries TAGS: Divinity | partnership working | rare books BETH are a European group of national organisations representing librarians working in theological college, seminary, Church and monastic libraries. Solo librarians or librarians working in small teams are characteristic of …Continue reading →

New College Library Library is moving August / September 2023   In January 2020 the majority of New College Library General Collections were relocated to 40 George Square to provide a Library service for the duration of a major Estates …Continue reading →

Artificial Intelligence : where does it fit into library strategy? TAGS: AI | artificial intelligence | Library Everybody’s talking about AI and Chat GPT – what will they mean? I attended an event on 20.4.2023 organised by the Information School Sheffield University which explored this question for …Continue reading →