(UL is the Cambridge University Library, another legal deposit library, but it borrowing books is allowed)
If your MP has already signed, it's worth dropping them a quick thank you email to make it clear they have support from their constituents.
This is a really good thread, and I suspect it’s true. Long before AI, 25 yrs ago, I remember various people telling me they were going to write a quick romance novel “for the money” (an M&B advance then was around £5k). None of them could do it. Editors & readers didn’t respond to insincerity.
It occurs to me that this is a consequence of giving everyone a spreadsheet program but not training.
So many people have no idea what their spreadsheets can do. And most of it isn’t that complicated.
But you need to value learning how to use the tools and upgrading that over time.
Green and Black Cross are offering trans-specific know your rights protest training this Friday. The link to sign up is here, and I’d appreciate it if you could share this widely.
My #librarymaxxing tip is City of London Libraries - membership is inclusive (can you prove your address basically). I used to love Shoe Lane Library - more (and more interesting) books than in my local library. You can use the Barbican library! Decent Libby / borrowbox collections.
This thread gave me a full body flashback to my Cambridge college library assistant days attempting to explain the UL/department/college library system
Also I’m not 100% sure about Oxford, but in Cambridge at least the colleges are separate employers, resulting in wild discrepancies in employment conditions and pay and recruitment practices for basically the same jobs, and unionising is hard and complicated.
Saw a post linking an article on research metrics and went to bookmark it to read on work time, but no! I don’t have to! I don’t have to think about that ever again!