📢Calling all #international library professionals.
Join us for a series of webinars focused on libraries and the climate crisis.
‘Libraries and positive climate action: community engagement’ will take place on Wednesday 4 October. Book:https://t.co/z53dVXrR6f
@ScienceBL
In our 50th birthday month it is incredibly heart-warming to be receiving so many birthday wishes from our library partners and friends around the world!
Thank you to everyone who took part!
#WeAre50@britishlibrary
https://t.co/9SUsqNwMAj
Backed by £13m from @DCMS, the @BritishLibrary’s network of Business & IP Centres have helped to create more than 18,000 new businesses📈
Lord Parkinson congratulated the entrepreneurs who’ve turned their ideas into thriving businesses @BIPC
Read more: https://t.co/8JCdDL95GK
Libraries are engines of economic recovery and growth. Read the highlights of our new independent report and the stories behind just some of the 62,876 people the @britishlibrary BIPC Network has supported with @DCMS funding https://t.co/hbK1bhhuO4 #DemocratisingEntrepreneurship
Libraries are engines of economic recovery and growth. Read the highlights of our new independent report and the stories behind just some of the 62,876 people the @britishlibrary BIPC Network has supported with @DCMS funding https://t.co/fajeeqyxaQ #DemocratisingEntrepreneurship
A huge thank you to @lemnsissay, @NLNZ, @Lucy_Worsley, @bettanyhughes, @librarycongress and everyone who has wished us a Happy 50th Birthday! 🥳
50 years of imagination, inspiring ideas and new discoveries – looking back over the past half a century, none of this would be possible without our friends and partnerships with libraries all over the world. We cannot wait to work together for the next 50 years...
#WeAre50
Congratulations to @britishlibrary on its 50th anniversary!
For half a century its cared for the UK’s research collection that grows every day, along with the knowledge it fuels, the ideas it sparks & the people it empowers. Here's to many more years
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary, we’re looking to the future.
From our passionate staff, to our friends @LemnSissay & @MichaelRosenYes, our partnerships with libraries around the world, and you, our readers, we can't wait to see what the next 50 years hold.
#WeAre50
Last night's @NWEW2023 event was an incredible celebration of women in business, launched by our ambassador @AlisonCork with speeches from Dame Carol Black, Chair, British Library, Liz Jolly, Chief Librarian & @KevinHollinrake, Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business.
Congratulations to @britishlibrary on their Knowledge Matters launch & on 50 years of lifelong learning, breaking down barriers to library use & a constant source of inspiration.
@mayorofcamden, @lotisbosstista and I popped into the Animals exhibition which is excellent.
Outstanding speech from @rolykeating at tonight's launch of #KnowledgeMatters, the new strategy and vision from @britishlibrary. Ambitious in scope, with a vision of a national library re-centred between north, south and online but with a real sense of continuity. MT @CILIPinfo
Packed with knowledge, history & philosophy ⚖️🌎💡
In its 50 year existence, the @britishlibrary has become one of our great cultural institutions
Open to everyone for research, inspiration and enjoyment (1/2)
📢 Announcing our new strategic vision #KnowledgeMatters.
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary, we’re looking ahead to 2030 and renewing our commitment to make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment.
https://t.co/Rgf1vsTuZG
One for the next weekend. Join us @britishlibrary with our Environmentalist in Residence to explore climate justice while making some zines, taking inspiration from the Library's collections. https://t.co/Qs9Ue78tyu
We Art Climate - join us for this hands-one zine Workshop on the 27th May - explore climate justice and engage with the British Library's collections with the British Library's Environmentalist in Residence
https://t.co/Qs9Ue78tyu #climateaction#climatejustice#greenlibraries
If you haven't already, check out the four case studies from our #GreenLibraries Partnership. They showcase examples from the landscape of current work in public libraries and the #EnvironmentalAction they're taking in their communities. #ClimateAction https://t.co/Q4WevyNUsm
Have you recently started your PhD? Curious about @britishlibrary, its unique collections and how to find what you need? Join us at one of our Doctoral Open Days. The next event in the series will explore our Asian and African Collections (21 April): https://t.co/DwH9AUHj5W
"I am completely on board with the idea that #libraries are and should be hubs of #sustainability", Lord Parkinson highlights the role of libraries both in engaging communities and providing accurate, reliable information. #GreenLibraries