Libraries Connected
We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies.
@flashes.blue
A photo viewing client for u from the creator of @skeetsapp.com & @bluescreen.blue iOS: https://t1p.de/b3o4x Android: Not available yet ❓ FAQS: https://t1p.de/24kj0 🐞 Bug Reports: https://t1p.de/phwii 💡 Feature Requests: https://t1p.de/8tmnc
@ascelnetwork.bsky.social
Amplifying young voices, inspiring inclusive and innovative library services for children and young people.
@swminerslibrary.bsky.social
Promoting Your Learning; Preserving Our Past - we support the teaching and research activities of Swansea University and promote links with the wider community
@goodthingsfdn.bsky.social
Powering the National Databank, National Device Bank and our free online digital skills platform, Learn My Way. Supporting the National Digital Inclusion Network. Header image text reads: "Fixing the digital divide - for good."
@civicvoice.org.uk
Making Places Better Together: The national charity for the civic movement in England. We make places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive. We promote civic pride. Reposts do not mean endorsement. www.civicvoice.org.uk
@highstreetben.bsky.social
Charity Director, Consultant, Chair and Trustee ~Heritage, Culture, Creative Health & Nature~
@nicolawriting.bsky.social
Nature. Writer. Reader. Rural. Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB. Award Winning On Gallows Down. Wild Service. Climate Fic Prize Judge. North Wessex Downs. https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
@cilipmdg.bsky.social
A @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group. The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters https://www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
@lgiu-local-gov.bsky.social
We are a membership organisation working to make local democracy around the world collectively stronger. We support local government in the UK, Ireland and Australia with resources, research and networks.
@helenmilner.bsky.social
Champion for Digital Inclusion. Group CEO Good Things Foundation. Chair Subak. Sheffield - London - Sydney. UK + Australia
@dcms-answers.bsky.social
Bot account posting whenever the Department for Culture, Media and Sport answers or corrects an answer to a written parliamentary question. Monitored by librarians in the House of Commons Library
@research-for-act.bsky.social
We produce research and organise around accountability, information rights & local democracy. Currently: democratic effects of #LocalGov financial crisis. A worker co-operative. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/47xnyb37
@masieghart.bsky.social
Recovering journalist. Author of The Authority Gap, Consultant, TED speaker, Visiting Prof, King’s College London. Director, Guardian Media Group. All opinions mine, not theirs, natch.
@wsccnews.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account of West Sussex County Council. Not regularly monitored.
@womensprize.bsky.social
Charity changing the world through books written by women📚 Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast 🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
@age-uk.bsky.social
We believe every older person should be valued and included. Let's change how we age 💜 https://www.ageuk.org.uk/
@katejmason.bsky.social
#CreativeNewham #artseducation #creativeindustries #art #craft #design #heritage #charityleadership / experienced #CharityCEO #Trustee & #NED / 30 yrs experience / a Mother
@treesforcities.bsky.social
UK charity planting trees, greening urban landscapes, and growing stronger communities 🍃 https://www.treesforcities.org/
@libbyapp.com
Libby is the award-winning and much-loved app for your local library. Borrow ebooks and listen to audiobooks, and support your library!
@safepassageintl.bsky.social
We stand with refugees for safety, family and justice, using legal expertise and advocacy to bring refugee families together 👪
@ruthwarewriter.bsky.social
Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter Find me at ruthware.com
@stephmerritt.bsky.social
Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Formerly of The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
@sallytalksbooks.bsky.social
Freelance book and arts PR (non-fiction and kid's books focus). Reader, traveller, parent. Likes a cup of tea and a chat, especially about books. CR: Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed
@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
That bloke from off of Twitter. Writes books. Likes cats. That sort of thing. You can give Ko-Fi donations too, if you fancy it: https://ko-fi.com/nickpettigrew
@philippaeast.bsky.social
Novelist. #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 pubbed by HQ/HarperCollins. Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
@sophieanderson.bsky.social
Carnegie Shortlisted Author. Lives in a House with Chicken Legs. Speaks Bear. Tangles Magic. Sings Storms.❄️The Snow Girl❄️
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@sarramanning.bsky.social
Reader, writer, chopped liver Literary Editor for Red Magazine Representation: Rebecca Ritchie at A.M.Heath Ltd
@cjayanetti.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits - these days mainly for the Observer, Big Issue and Politics Home. Not a tribalist. I like good things and I don't like bad things.
@data.ft.com
The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories. https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
@hugorifkind.bsky.social
Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social
We are an independent health think tank aiming to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research & policy analysis. 💻 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
@katieschmuecker.bsky.social
Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature
@jodier.bsky.social
Early years, education, parenting, politics, poverty & better solutions to all above. Director at Isos Partnership, Trustee @YWTrust, Associate @IPPR, Governor, Mumx3, recovering civil servant etc etc https://www.isospartnership.com/
@rosielockwood.bsky.social
Head of Media and Advocacy for IPPR North & IPPR Scotland丨former Mayor of Selby in God's own country丨Social justice, campaigns & comms 丨Toddler mum
@econchange.bsky.social
The Economic Change Unit (ECU) campaigns to change the way the economy works so that everyone has the freedom and security to live a good life. Visit: econchange.org
@kmaj0r.bsky.social
Deputy opinion editor at The Guardian UK. Interested in culture, economics and society.
@ippr.bsky.social
IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
@demos-uk.bsky.social
Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy. Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://demos.co.uk/support/
@pollymackenzie.bsky.social
Used to be in politics. Now work for the coolest university in the world.
@andrewphillips.bsky.social
Policy and Research Manager at Phoenix Insights, focusing on employment, skills and labour market. Previously worked at Demos (@demos-uk.bsky.social) and Institute for Government. Views my own. www.thephoenixgroup.com/phoenix-insights
@iprnickp.bsky.social
Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI.
@jesstud.bsky.social
CEO, @wearenewlocal.bsky.social Politics, policy, local government, devolution, place, community power, public service reform, inequality & feminism. Always searching for good coffee.
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
@smkcampaigners.bsky.social
Campaigning is vital to a healthy society. We help campaigners to thrive. #LoveCampaigning #SocialChange #SMKAward2025
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta