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Our Inspirational Info Pro 2024 is Erika Neck, Learning & Digital Resources Coordinator at @CollegeMerthyr, in recognition of her unwavering dedication to learner support & development. Erika's achievement is based on a commitment to tech, virtual reality & AI @CMTLearningZone

Our 2024 Innovative Practice Award goes to @LibrariesLC for its Gameracy game-based skills initiative for disengaged students that takes the stress out of learning. It has boosted wellbeing & encouraged key social skills like teamwork and strategising. Congrats! @LeicesterColl

Libraries Change Lives parliamentary reception with @CILIPinfo and others. Great to see so much support in the room and we'll keep pushing for longer-term financial support for a sector that is key to the future of our communities, society and the economy.

Have libraries changed your life? I'm speaking this afternoon @houseofcommons reception on how libraries changed my life. As a child, I visited my local East Ham Library every Saturday with my Dad & bros. As UK Libraries Champion @CILIPinfo (2019-21) & ambassador for @readingagency, I will keep shouting on the roof tops about libraries 🗣️ From supporting learning at all ages, to improving digital literacy for the most vulnerable, to equipping people with the skills they need to thrive in the modern economy, libraries are truly engines of social mobility #LibrariesChangeLives cilip.org.uk/page/libraries…

@Renmakesmusic Dear beautiful @Renmakesmusic. If only the joy you bring to other people were medicine.

I applied for a library card in my new hometown, and I thought I attached a photo of my drivers license to prove my address, but as the library pointed out… I accidentally attached a different photo…

Today, we remember our former striker and League Cup winner Dalian Atkinson, on what would have been his 56th birthday. 💜

Can AI Help Find the Children of Argentina’s <i>Desaparecidos</i>? hyperallergic.com/836529/can-ai-… via @hyperallergic

@FreddiesFlowers I’ll deliver them myself later this morning.

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@FreddiesFlowers this box has just been dumped in my street. A neighbour told the delivery guy it wasn’t the right street and told him where the street was. Instead of taking them he dumped them by our bin sheds.

@JoWoodKM Brilliant news, Jo.

@MichaelVinsen In my FB memories this morning!

Psychedelics startups break taboos to bring hallucinogens into mental healthcare thenextweb.com/news/psychedel… via @thenextweb

@lisparcell @ned_potter @Philbradley Everything about that session was great. Ned being excellent of course but also the delegates being so engaged and open. Brilliant kick-off to a bank holiday weekend. Which I hope you all enjoy.

@ned_potter So pleased I finally managed to get to one of your events Ned - I've signed up for a few before but the day job got in the way! Success at last. Best value course I've been on in ages. Thankyou @ned_potter and do keep the power hours going @Valskelton @Philbradley !

I'm looking forward to doing my first Power Hour (under the auspices of Phil Bradley and Val Skelton, legends both...). It's an introduction to library marketing, jargon-free, no experience necessary. Midday on May 26th: eventbrite.com/e/a-jargon-fre…

A evening at Lambeth Palace for the 2022 Janette Harley Award ceremony and the 2023 Maurice Bond Memorial Lecture hazelhall.org/2023/05/16/a-e…