Jessica Bates

📝 New BERA Blog Special Issue! The heart of learning: Spotlight on school libraries in the UK and Ireland 📚 Edited by @Jessica_Bates @UlsterUni @JayneFinlay @sheffielduni This special issue coincides with #NationalYearofReading2026 🙌 Read here: bera.ac.uk/blog-special-i…

How can public libraries in Northern Ireland support children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) and their parents/carers? Funded PhD opportunity ⁦@UlsterUni⁩. Please share with anyone who might be interested. ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcolleg…

*Funded Phd Opportunity* @UlsterUni - How can public libraries in NI support children with SEN & their families? Please RT & share with anyone who might be interested in applying. #PhDResearch #PublicLibraries #SEN @UlsterEducation @LibrariesNI ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcolleg…

@RathlinRaven Great pics. Rocky (named by George who feeds it every day) hope it does ok in storm

Beautiful pics of him/her! Its sometimes a couple of weeks between sightings at the Post Office end of the beach, so it always gladdens my heart to see it again 😊

How can our sector spot and challenge fake news and misinformation? Follow these 8 simple steps from @IFLA giving you practical advice on how to verify what you're reading and check that what you're reading is telling you the truth. #FactsMatter ifla.org/news/how-to-sp…

@_Stickybeak Wow, a load alright. (A castaway of balls, a penalty of balls…) Have you seen this bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/artic…

What a load of balls! Must be one of our most frequent types of marine litter. Gathered a Spiderman ball during a #2minutebeachclean yesterday, another one for our ever-expanding collection #WashedUpOnRathlin

@bt_uk @bt_uk Day 7 of no broadband and no information from BT to its service users. Wait time when you ring BT to speak to a human is 20-40 minutes!

@bt_uk This is really poor

@bt_uk @bt_uk Yesterday we were told online & on phone (after 35 min wait on phone) it would be fixed by last night. This morning we are back to no fix date. 😡 postcode BT54

@Jessica_Bates You can contact our Tech Team over the phone, and they'll be able to look into this further for you.

Satellite communications to improve connectivity in remote areas - UKspace #Rathlin #RuralConnectivity #DigitalIsland ukspace.org/satellite-comm…

@bt_uk No @bt_uk that response isn’t good enough as all connections with online help lead to same response that there is no update on when connection will be restored. Postcode area BT54.

@Jessica_Bates Hi Jessica, I'm sorry to hear that you're having issues with your connection. Our Tech Team will be able to look into this further and check for an update. You can contact them at bt.com/help/contact-bt.

This week we hosted a delegation from the University of Mosul @cl_uomas part of their visit to @niassembly. Around one million books and rare manuscripts from the library were burnt when ISIS were in control of the city (June 2014- January 2017)

@MargotMcCuaig And the best smile. RIP Michael. Go gently Margot and give yourself all the time you need to grieve. He will be remembered so well. Our love and deepest sympathies

The kindest irishman, the most caring, considerate gentleman and the best daddy a girl could wish for has died and I am heartbroken. RIP daddy💔 💚☘️💚

Well the 'how do you arrange your bookshelves' question on #TheRestIsEntertainment has caused uproar. Thanks for all the photos, and I'm glad that my solution of sorting books by size seems to be more popular than @MarinaHyde's arcane system. Do keep sending us your photos! Including all you colour-coders. More next week I suspect.

Great guest talk to our @UlsterEducation MSc&PgDip Library students from Ben Lee @Sharedintel on his Future Libraries and Futures Literacy projects, resources & Toolkit developed for @CILIPinfo for public libraries. #LibraryLeadership #FutureOfLibraries #OnlineLearning

@OrkneyLibrary You are also very much in demand in the🧵 place

Don't worry we're not leaving and remember if you're not following us here you can follow us over on Facebook or Instagram. We've not tried any of those other ones. Yet...

And so they go again, slowly leaving one at a time until one day we'll just be here alone, tweeting into the abyss about books and the old days when it was different. We used to have a blue tick. You don't understand. We could have had class. We could have been a contender, etc

We're hiring! 💼 There are currently 5 part-time temporary posts available: 📍 Omagh - 24h15m 📍 Enniskillen - 24h 📍 Irvinestown - 8h30m 📍 Fintona - 10h 📍 Lisnaskea - 20h15m 📅 Closing date: 22 Nov at 11:59pm For more information and to apply 👉 tinyurl.com/CareerOpportun…