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Cambridge Assistant Library Staff Forum @ALSFcam
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ALSF 2025 took place on September 18th at Newnham College. 🎉 It was a fantastic day filled with rich talks on a variety of library-ish topics. 📚 We're immensely grateful to all our speakers, network reps, and attendees who helped make the day so special. ❤️
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There is still time to book your place at this year's Assistant Library Staff Forum! (Booking closes 21st August) We can promise exciting talks, networking opportunities, and delicious refreshments. See you all at Newnham College on the 18th September! eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge…

Cambridge Assistant Library Staff Forum 2025

Connect, learn, and share ideas with fellow library staff at the Cambridge Assistant Library Staff Forum on 18 September 2025!

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⚠️LOCATION CHANGE⚠️ Due to ongoing building work at the Law Faculty, the Assistant Library Staff Forum will now be hosted at Newnham College in the Cynthia Beerbower Room. We are thrilled to have found such a great location and we're grateful to Newnham for accommodating us!
Cynthia Beerbower Lecture Room

ALT Cynthia Beerbower Lecture Room

Outside view of the dining hall and other buildings at Newnham College, Cambridge

ALT Outside view of the dining hall and other buildings at Newnham College, Cambridge
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Tickets are now available for Assistant Library Staff* Forum on 18 September at the Faculty of Law: a day of talks, networking and (most importantly) snacks! 🍰 Submissions are still open for A3-size conference style posters to display at the Forum. Submission form in bio. 📚
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Just one week left to pitch a presentation for ALSF 2025! 📢 To help with inspiration, here are some of the titles from our previous conferences. A full list of titles is linked in our bio, along with the submission form. 🔗 We can’t wait to read your submissions! ❤️
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💬 Public speaking not your thing? Submit a poster! We're looking for posters on all things libraries for ALSF 2025! ✉️ Submit your poster here (deadline: 8th September): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Guidance on creating a conference poster: libguides.cam.ac.uk/confpost…
ALSF - The Library: Past, Present and Possible Futures Public speaking not your thing? You can still contribute to ALSF! Some ideas: AI in libraries ; career development ; outreach and engagement ; decolonisation ; digital skills ; exhibitions ; staff projects. Submit your A3 poster design before 8th September 2025.

ALT ALSF - The Library: Past, Present and Possible Futures Public speaking not your thing? You can still contribute to ALSF! Some ideas: AI in libraries ; career development ; outreach and engagement ; decolonisation ; digital skills ; exhibitions ; staff projects. Submit your A3 poster design before 8th September 2025.
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The Assistant Library Staff Forum is back for 2025! 📢 This year’s loose theme is “The Library: Past, Present and Possible Futures”. 📚 Presentation Proposal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Poster Submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Share your network: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Learning more about the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory from Amélie - another talk highlighting the intense collaboration between departments, the incredible objects here in Cambridge and the role of library staff in this! Beard hairs and ectoplasm anyone?
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23 Sep 2024
There’s some great stuff going on @ALSFcam today! Fantastic organisation by the committee, and great talks
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Curating a dream exhibition - Liz White talks about her process curating her exhibition, and gives us a crash course in special collections exhibitions for beginners!
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How can we as librarians use our skills as information professionals to support our library patrons with issues of AI? Alberto's presentation takes us through it with curiosity - rejecting utopian/dystopian visions of the technology!
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Icebreakers round two! Did you get a full house?
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Between the Pages: Ellie and Sofia's presentation takes us on a journey around the library and back in time through the items they found - "scatters of lives hidden between the pages"
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Lightning talk 4: the Library, Information and Archive Services Apprenticeship - a different route into librarianship other than completing masters.
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Lightning talks 2&3: Decolonising through critical librarianship and room mapping the UL reading room!
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First lightning talk: Tamar Drukker talks about the work and collaborations that go into cataloguing the varied collections of Raphael Loewe - and shows us some of the exciting books in the collection.
Image of a book plate in a book from the collection

ALT Image of a book plate in a book from the collection

Image of Mishneh Torah

ALT Image of Mishneh Torah

Tamar and slides with all the languages she has come across in the Loewe collection

ALT Tamar and slides with all the languages she has come across in the Loewe collection
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Icebreaker session with Mentimeter: impressed to see there are some people here who have worked in 7 libraries in their career!
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First talk of the day! @LauraVNG - thinking about the moments that mean something to us in our work
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What do Darwin’s Tree of Life, Thatcher’s Spitting Image puppet, & a 5-meter-long Japanese scroll have in common? They've all been photographed by assistant staff @theUL's Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory! Amélie Deblauwe tells us more @ ALSF 2024 🎟️calendars.libraries.cam.ac.u…
Amelie Deblauwe - Digitising the Treasures of Cambridge University Libraries - Afternoon session. 23 September - Book now.

ALT Amelie Deblauwe - Digitising the Treasures of Cambridge University Libraries - Afternoon session. 23 September - Book now.
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Libraries are home to many hidden treasures! Find out about discoveries Murray Edwards College Library Assistants Ellie Dixon-Coyte and Sofia Frattaroli during their weeding project at the Rosemary Murray Library. calendars.libraries.cam.ac.u…
Ellie Dixon-Coyte and Sofia Frattaroli - Between the Pages: A History of Objects at the Rosemary Murray Library Morning Session 23rd September Book Now

ALT Ellie Dixon-Coyte and Sofia Frattaroli - Between the Pages: A History of Objects at the Rosemary Murray Library Morning Session 23rd September Book Now
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