Masud Khokhar
@masudk.com
Higher Education, Libraries, IT, Leadership, Digital, and Inclusion. Chief Digital and Information Officer at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masudkhokhar/ All views are mine. Love Cats & Coffee!
🚨Event Alert: Analytic Spirituality — Philosophy, Practice, and the Knowledge of God. How can analytic philosophy deepen our understanding of spiritual practice and religious experience? Join us this May for a special hybrid event (in person + online) in memory of Revd Dr David Efird.
That was one heck of a tense and joyful game @arsenalfc.bsky.social what a player Max Dowman 👏🏽 #Arsenal #Everton #ArsEve
Irrefutable proof that the Premier League trophy is coming to @arsenalfc.bsky.social this time. I am sure @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is also rooting for this outcome.
🎇 Fantastic start to Day Two of #ARLPI26! Blixrud Memorial Keynote Speaker @masudk.com of @universityofleeds.bsky.social discussed “Sustaining the Spark: Building an Adaptive and Innovative Organizational Culture” #innovation #libraries
Today, we are celebrating the archive of the wonderful Peepal Tree Press, an archive that we are so blessed to have at @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social and @lulgalleries.bsky.social
There are so many reasons to like what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has achieved in NYC but I love that he is an @arsenalfc.bsky.social fan. I am sure “Our time is now” is valid for both NYC and Arsenal this time!!
I have been thinking a lot about what the future of libraries could be in an algorithmic economy. A real pleasure to share these thoughts and provocations through the fantastic Katina Magazine. Let me know what you think? katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #Libraries #FutureofWork #FutureLibrary
Imagining the Future Library
In an algorithmic economy, our understanding of knowledge is changing. Libraries must change too.
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🗣️Speakers: 🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester) 💂♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds) 🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester) 💂♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)
Knowledge Equity Network@knowledgeen.bsky.social · 10mo ago📚 “Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History” 🗓️ Thu 23 Oct, 4-5pm (BST) Explore anti-slavery, resistance & archival activism from @universityofleeds.bsky.social and University of Rochester. Online - register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4443892 #BlackHistory #Archives #Leeds #Rochester
What if we told you it’s not technical skills or money—but culture & relationships among people—that drive lasting #innovation? At #PI26 @masudk.com will share his remarkable journey as a blueprint for building influence & connection. Preview his keynote & register now! bit.ly/PI26Masud #libraries
PI26: Keynote Announcement—Masud Khokhar — Association of Research Libraries
February 11–12 ᐧ Chicago-Rosemont What if we told you it’s not technical skills or money—but culture and relationships among people—that drive lasting innovation? At the ARL President’s Institute in...
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Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe
On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...
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Wonderful to hear @richove.bsky.social keynote #KULA Library Futures Academy on the history and role of libraries and archives as the infrastructure of democracy. An inspiring and thoughtful talk.
Fantastic start to the launch of KULA Library Futures Academy at @uvic.ca library. Brilliant sessions so far including the recent one with the brilliant @richove.bsky.social #KULA
I recognise that you will have your own taste but the soundtracks of Tron Legacy and Interstellar are two of the best movie soundtracks I have ever heard. Any other great soundtracks you can think of? #Movies #Soundtracks #Interstellar #TronLegacy
What a game between Liverpool and Newcastle this evening. #LivNew #PremierLeague
We’re excited that @masudk.com will represent #KEN at the inaugural Global Innovation Circle on Higher Education (GICHE) this October in Hannover - shaping conversations on inclusive, resilient, and innovative futures for higher Education. #GICHE #CollaborativeLeadership #FutureGenerations
I was delighted to open the #DHOxSS2025 #AILibraries workshop stream today with a keynote on AI and Research Libraries. Really engaging conversations with colleagues in the summer school and lots of learning. Thank you for the invitation @dhoxss.bsky.social.
Over 18M people in the UK suffer from Hayfever including me. Why haven't we yet found a cure for it! I do wonder whether this is an area of focus for medical research and research funding, as it is not life threatening. It is highly debilitating though in my view. #hayfever
One of the highlights of the year!!
University of Leeds@universityofleeds.bsky.social · last yr.The International Medieval Congress is back next week from 7 to 10 July ⚔️ @imc-leeds.bsky.social, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies, will draw medievalists from over 60 countries, and we expect to welcome thousands of attendees 👇 www.imc.leeds.ac.uk #IMC2025
Thank you White Rose Libraries. It has been a privilege working for the board and the wider network.
White Rose Libraries@whiteroselibraries.bsky.social · last yr.🌟 Huge congratulations to @masudk.com on his appointment as Chief Digital and Information Officer at the University of Leeds! 👏 He’s been a hugely influential figure for White Rose Libraries through his work on the Executive Board and with White Rose University Press @wrunipress.bsky.social
“Data is never neutral” - here is @adamrutherford.bsky.social data checklist #LKFS2025 - a wonderful way to conclude today and the brilliant conversations we had today.
Apologies as we are running a bit behind schedule but @adamrutherford.bsky.social talk is so captivating. Hopefully colleagues are able to stay with us for a bit longer at #LKFS2025
Final session of the day by @adamrutherford.bsky.social on Data, Knowledge and Bias at #LKFS2025. I am biased but today has been a wonderful day of conversations and debates. Thank you to everyone in person and online 👏🏽
12 official languages in South Africa, 32 regional languages in India. This has huge impact on collection strategy and AI models data. This is the perspective that makes me think how we can often think too simplistically about global knowledge system but in reality so much nuance is needed #LKFS2025
Over 5 million images are made available online by Chinese University of Hong Kong library - amazing fact shared by Patti Cheung #LKFS2025
here's my presentation to the super #LKFS2025; super important conversations. Many thanks to @masudk.com and colleagues for showing the way to knowledge futures. and here's Allan Ginsberg on the library dancefloor! anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/k...
Knowledge Futures
I want to start in a singular place of culture, the British Museum. From the Great Court one can now peer into that symbol of human knowledge, the round reading room. We all somehow have it i…
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