Library Planet Blog, March 2024

1. We would love to publish profiles of your favourite libraries. Please send profiles to booksofkells@live.com.au

2. Some recent posts on Library Planet include profiles of Vancouver Public Library, the Kyoto International Manga Museum, Mildura Library, the State Library of Queensland, Murray Valley libraries and the Brussels Air Museum.

<https://libraryplanet.net/>

3. Please also check out some great contributors to ‘Library Twitter’ and ‘Book Twitter’, aka ‘Library X’ and ‘Book X’:

@MarshsLibrary

@DrKarrSchmidt

@slamup

@jdmccafferty

@lisafdavis

@PalmeriJoAnn

@Pulpcurry

@liamsims

@richove

@julesburt

@red_loeb

@SJLahey

@rebeccaromney

@ron_clinton

@theULSpecColl

@BLMedieval

@PulpLibrarian

Editor’s disclaimer: There is an important and vibrant conversation on Twitter/X among library professionals, library users, library funders and all varieties of people who love books and libraries. I do not agree with a lot of recent changes to the Twitter/X platform, and I do not share the new owners’ views on many subjects. But like many people, I am sticking with the platform for now, with an eye to the past and a hopeful eye to the future.

Library Planet on Twitter/X: Stuart Kells @stuartkells

4. The British Library is back online following a devastating cyber attack.

See: <https://www.bl.uk/>

5. The campaign to save physical copies of wills in England and Wales:

<https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/ministry-justice-destroy-wills&gt;

6. Cromwell’s copy of a finely bound prayer book:

<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/09/hever-castle-to-display-16th-century-prayer-book-believed-to-be-thomas-cromwells-from-holbein-portrait&gt;

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