Elle Ann
@libraryleo.bsky.social
Cumbrian living in Devon, Systems Librarian, loves reading historical fiction about women by women, crocheting, and good food. Co-editor of NAG journal Taking Stock. Neurodivergent af.
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Wrote this (simple, non-exhaustive) list of things wrong with AI for you to share with your normie friends. Written honestly because I'm a bit frustrated at the number of even environmentally and socially conscious people I meet who don't realise how bad AI is chequered.ink/10-things-wr...
10 things wrong with AI
10 things wrong with AI for people who don't know already.
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Been meaning to read this for years, and it is slightly slow going, but every time I start getting bored by descriptions of the sublime Italian landscape, someone gets kidnapped.
Today I finally saw a doctor about my stupid knee and he was very nice and thorough and took it seriously (unlike the doctor 3 years ago who laughed at me because I was 30 and 'knees click'). Blood tests tomorrow, X-ray at some point in the near future. Gotta call the physio.
Yesterday. Newcastle to Torquay. Broken train at Derby. Unlikely friends in 33 degree temps. Crowded vestibules. Standing in carriage aisles. A can of Stella from a kind stranger. A shared taxi from newton abbot, paid by another kind stranger. ☀️
And that's a wrap! We had a fabulous time in Nottingham for #NAGcd16 and we hope you did too - please give us your delegate feedback at tinyurl.com/nag2026 to help us plan 2027
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Now having a coffee in the Pride Shop in Nottingham and about to spend all my money 🌈
Very proud of myself for doing a live presentation to probably the biggest crowd I've faced so far, and being on my first live panel! NAG is the perfect place to face any fears you may have around public speaking, as it provides the kindest captive audience you could hope for
NAG’s panel session has just begun, featuring speakers from papers 6 and 7, talking about wellbeing collections #NAGcd16
Staying with the wellbeing theme, next up we have "User-powered wellbeing and leisure collections" with Aster Weyer-Brown and Elle Lund from @exeterunilib.bsky.social #NAGcd16
Be honest, how many of you filled a glass with undiluted cordial #nagcd16
NAG is starting later on day 1 to allow people to travel here. As I live in Devon, I came over last night, and am now enjoying the most unhurried conference morning of my life.
No Brian (my name for *that* part of my brain) we didn't leave the tap running #travelanxiety
I got to visit our clinical skills research centre today to make sure we have libcal configured right for them. So. Many. Terrifying. Mannequins.
Oh the difficulty of packing for a week away when the temperature is about to radically change 😂 woe woe is me
I'm getting interns for a couple weeks! 🥳 They're getting ME for a couple weeks! 😱
Back on a dating app, we shall see how long it lasts this time. People are using Ai generated pictures now 🫣 at least makes some decision making easier
I'm off for a week, in a week's time! NAG conference in Nottingham and then some time in Sunderland with my bestie. Can't wait and need a break but VERY ANXIOUS about the amount that I need to get done by then. And when I get back it'll be nearly June?!?!?
Loving the Beatles hold music on the EPUG conference zoom 😂
This week I am *not* experiencing an intense wave of post socialising anxiety 🤔 I like it
Bookings are now closed for NAG Seminar & Forum 2026! As our flagship event is just around the corner, here are 5 excellent reasons to join & support NAG in doing its important work from @librarianth.bsky.social librarianth.home.blog/2026/04/30/5...
5 Reasons to join the National Acquisitions Group (NAG)
What is NAG National Acquisitions Group, which will hereafter be referred to as NAG, is a membership organisation involving Librarians (public, academic, and specialist), suppliers, and publishers.…
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It is my 8 month anniversary of my systems role. While I am still wildly out of my depth, I at least feel I now have the equivalent of a pool noodle of knowledge to keep me from drowning. Apologies for the tortured metaphor but I am very very tired 😂
Today I was wondering how I might start getting into writing articles for professional publication. Girl you are the editor of a librarianship journal MAYBE START THERE.
Every time I realise I'm missing a jiscmail I go to jiscmail realise I'm missing a lot of jiscmail try to sign up to too many jiscmail get flagged as spoofing by jiscmail and get kicked out of the new jiscmails
I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????
