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Rats in Stacks

A newsletter for librarians

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Rats in Stacks Issue #16 - March 2026

Intro Bad luck, Rats in Stacks is walking towards your inbox at a menacingly slow yet relentless pace (because it's Friday the 13th, yeah?). You may be thinking, “wow, it’s been a few months since the last one of these”. To which I say: I am ungovernable and do what I want (I was busy). Spring is slowly making itself known which means we’re creeping towards conference season. Conferences can often be expensive, so I’ll do my best to share free events and bursaries over the next few months. If...

17 days ago • 2 min read

Intro Welcome back to the long awaited return of Rats in Stacks! Call it a Yuletide miracle or just me finally finding the will, but we’re back to some regularly scheduled programming (please ignore if you receive this email at 9pm). In more good news, the poll I ran roughly a thousand years ago has revealed that the rat of Rats in Stacks’ name is: RatGPT! (The GPT stands for Grate (more) Parmesan, Thanks). More resource than event heavy this issue, but that’s probably for the best in this...

4 months ago • 1 min read