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  1. Digital Resources Administrator post at Ligatus: deadline extended is.gd/moGd7L , please circulate and apply.
  2. New post at Ligatus: Research Technician - is.gd/moGd7L
  3. A SKOS thesaurus for binding descriptions to be developed over the next 3 days by the Language of bindings network ligatus.org.uk/lob
  4. Ligatus website has been migrated to a new (and much faster) server.
  5. 4 new positions available for the Ligatus Summer School. Please email e.warner@camberwell.arts.ac.uk for info.
  6. Login to Ligatus's websites will be restricted over the weekend and Monday due to planned maintenance work.
  7. Ligatus has moved office. Our new address is: CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU
  8. Deadline for applications for the Ligatus Summer School approaching: 1st of July.
  9. See a rich collection of bibliographical references on bookbinding at http://www.ligatus.org.uk/biblio More added on a daily basis.
  10. Today is Ligatus's last day at the Wilson Rd. address. Details of the new address will be posted soon.
  11. Place of Bindings (www.ligatus.org.uk/node/461) inspires new bindings blog (standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com) #LigatusPoB
  12. Fascinating work on dating and tracking books by detailed analysis of their binding tools from Nikolas Sarris #LigatusPoB
  13. Fascinating work on dating an tracking books by detailed analysis of their binding tools from #LigatusPoB
  14. Getting ready for the second afternoon session. Up first Federico Macchi. Later on Nikolas Sarris and Paul Needham #LigatusPoB
  15. #LigatusPoB A reminder that tonight's talk by Anthony Hobson will be held in the same venue as today's talks - the T.S Eliot Lecture Theatre
  16. Last talk before tea break: Maria Luisa López-Vidriero Abelló from Real Bibliotecca, Madrid. #LigatusPoB
  17. Search the British Library Database of Bookbindings. It's online here bl.uk/catalogues/boo… #LigatusPoB
  18. Interesting description of copyright considerations in image surveying from John Goldfinch #LigatusPoB
  19. And now to the British Library. John Goldfinch describes their bindings database. #LigatusPoB