Rob Cawston
@cawston.bsky.social
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Weeknote #34, featuring a wisdom council, file management conundrums and the death of the Fringe. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-34-... #weeknotes #digital #libraries
Weeknote #34: Retention
Busy, busy. Feeling the pinch of back-to-school organisation with new timetables, devices, and parent briefings. The kids are coping better than we are. The weather is also dipping into Autumn with mo...
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Weeknote #33: Featuring a diminishing to-do list, AI pondering and lots of festival stuff. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-33-... #digital #weeknotes #libraries
Weeknote #33: Focus
What happened this week? A week churning through a growing to-do list, trying to focus on one thing at a time and ticking-off multiple admin tasks. Often the tasks you think will be simple open up a ...
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Weeknote #32, featuring a farewell, a partial eclipse and the start of festival fun. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-32-... #digital #libraries #weeknotes
Weeknote #32: Partiality
Another shorter week as we headed off for a wedding in Marple, south of Manchester. Lots of stone cottages and rolling hills. This is minus the boy who returned from the Boardmasters festival in Cornw...
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A weeknote featuring exam results, early starts and getting things off the to-do list. Plus, a visit to parliament and Australian acrobats. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-31-... #weeknotes #digital #Libraries
Weeknote #31: Clear skies
A strange week with a big focus on exam results. The boy did amazingly well, managing to pull off the perfect ratio of hard work and outcomes for each subject. There's now a bit less pressure on his f...
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Did you hear our National Librarian Amina Shah on BBC Radio 6 Music this morning? Amina spoke with Nick Grimshaw about a Very Specific Playlist which ties in with our exhibition, ‘Rain’, on now at our George IV Bridge building in Edinburgh.
Weeknote #30, featuring project kick-offs, some AI doom and gloom and oyster-hunting. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-30-... #digital #libraries #weeknotes
Weeknote #30: Restoration
What happened this week? A day of leave on Monday was spent on a furniture hunt with the girl. We were the first people in Ikea which was fun (for a while). We left with some spoons, a pack of storag...
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A weeknote from a shorter week featuring project planning, routemapping and farewells: cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-29-... #weeknotes #digital #library
Weeknote #29: Departures
A much shorter note from a condensed three-day week. Things are a little quieter at the Library through the Summer (although the noise outside the office is ramping up with the swarm of tourists and s...
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A double-edition weeknote covering a Cairngorms holiday and a very busy return to work. Plus, some nice links and the inevitable crushing football disappointment. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-27-... #weeknotes #libraries #digital
Weeknote 27-28: Woods and trees
A first week spent with friends* in the sunny Cairngorms. Lots of forests, cycling, woods, river swimming, trees, good food, football and games. It felt good to be in a different space and slow down. ...
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Weeknotes #26: A week of many milstones and crawing towards the Summer break... cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-26... #weeknotes #digital #libraries
Weeknote #26: Milestones
A final week before a long-awaited Summer break, including my wedding anniversary (19 years!) and my brother turning 50 (!!). I also marked three years in my role at the Library and the half way point...
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A weeknote written on a delayed and sweaty train, including mostly weather-based updates and a flurry of activity before the Summer holidays. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-25-... #weeknotes #digital #libraries
Weeknote #25: Slow train
I’m writing this on the day’s fourth slow-moving train, heading back from a university open day at Durham with the boy. It’s been a very full week with little time for reflection, so I should perhaps ...
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A weeknote at the end of a very full on week involving Board meetings, strategy workshops, an exhibition opening and a vist to Paisley Musuem (which is looking.. amazing). cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-24-... #weeknotes #Libraries #digital
Weeknote #24: Patterns
I'm attempting to write this at the tail end of a very full on week involving team away days, a museum visit, board meetings, and an exhibition opening. Fun, challenging but also exhausting. It's beco...
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A full on week, featuring recruitment, exploratory workshops and thinking about long-term strategy and funding. #weeknotes #digital #libraries cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-23-...
Weeknote #23: Centrality
A very full-on week involving recruitment, a couple of exploratory workshops and thinking about long-term strategy and funding. With the boy away in Kenya, we've taken the opportunity to redecorate hi...
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A slightly delayed weeknote, featuring departures and arrivals, budget wrangling, and catching up over coffee. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-22-... #weeknote
Weeknote #22: Liminal spaces
The house felt very empty this week as my daughter headed off a school trip to the Netherlands. Friday then saw my son head off on another trip. We managed about 30 minutes of child-free waiting at th...
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Why do action epics, horror games, and farming simulators all keep returning to libraries? In our new long read, author Sam Fern takes us on a tour through libraries in videogames, exploring libraries in: 🪝 Tomb Raider: Legend 🦇 Arkham Asylum 🗡️ Assassin's Creed: Mirage 🏰 Skyrim 📚 Animal Crossing
Weeknote #21 featuring: a Scottish Summer, a lot of running around and getting projects over the line. #weeknotes cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-21-...
Weeknote #21: Finishing line
Edinburgh's annual week of Summer arrived in time for the marathon festival and the end of exams. Sighs of relief all round and it felt good to spend time outside. What happened this week? The fina...
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Telling a woman to get back in the kitchen is such a weird insult to lob. We can still tweet from kitchens. We have WIFI & data plans.
Weeknote #20 featuring a slow recovery from the Hackney Half, avoiding costly delays and getting somewhere with AI. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-20-... #weeknotes
Weeknote #20: Recovery
A slow start to the week as I recovered from the Hackney Half. Not my finest race. After my brother sailed into the distance I settled into a steady pace and tried to enjoy the good vibes. What happ...
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A shorter weeknote summing up a super-intense week. Wrapping things up before heading to London for the Hackney Half 🏃 cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-19-... #weeknotes
Weeknote #19: Wrap up
More of a mini-note this time around, ironically due to a very busy schedule. I'm writing this at the end of Friday, trying to leave things in a reasonable state before heading off to London for the H...
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A weeknote covering a lot of scrambling around both in and outside of work. Featuring Camp Digital fomo, a tribute to Sir David and Cambridge United's promotion triumph 🫎 #weeknotes #digital cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-18-...
Weeknote #18: Scrambling
Last weekend, Cambridge United secured promotion in the most Cambridge way possible, scrambling a 0-0 draw and relying on other teams failing to win. Work felt a bit like this, trying to keep projects...
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A slightly belated (two-week) weeknote, featuring sunshine, the wildlife on Mull and a picture of a puffin. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-16-... #weeknotes
Weeknote #16-17: Mulling it over
A couple of shorter working weeks were squeezed around the boy's Higher exams and a long weekend on the Isle of Mull. Ridiculous levels of sunshine helped to tick off an impressive list of wildlife in...
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Buff-tip moths They look like little broken birch twigs! A perfect disguise!
Rushing out a weknote late on a Friday. Featuring lock-down vibes, a Borders escape and some nice internet things. cawston.ghost.io/weeknote-14-... #weeknotes
Weeknote #14-15: Friends reunited
A two-week edition following a short break with university friends, recreating a pre-graduation trip to Rhodes. Less sun, swimming, and dancing. More walking, whiskey, and reminiscing about our forgot...
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ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com
A note for a shorter Easter week, featuring a mix of good and bad news - and getting lost down a YouTube rabbit hole. cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-13... #weeknote
Weeknotes 13: Spring shadows
A slightly shorter week with Monday and Friday as annual leave. Lots of sunshine and blue skies but, walking across the Meadows to work, frost remained in the long-shadows of the trees. I'm sure there...
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We definitley need to talk about this more...
mia ridge@miaout.bsky.social · 5mo agoImportant news: National Library of Scotland's Access team named collection trolleys: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft. Via @cawston.bsky.social's cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12...
A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. #weeknotes cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12...
Weenotes #12: Monsters Only
A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. What happened this week? Monday began with a useful chat with one of our Board members about a large-scale AI roll-out across a...
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