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The place for Library Jobs in Ireland. Contact / Submit a job. Academic and Special Libraries Section of the Library Association of Ireland. I can vouch for the brilliance of the ASL committee as I was a member for six years. Read all about my expereinces here. Joining a committee is very worthwhile for your Professional Develompemt. Career Development Group of the Library Association of Ireland. A communal blog with a broad and open-minded take on the subject of library and information management.
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A spectre is haunting librarianship - the spectre of radicalism! ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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A spectre is haunting librarianship - the spectre of radicalism! Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by Martin O Connor. Guest post by Tom Maher. Who works with The Forgotten Zine Archive. Likes long walks on the beach and enjoys Italian food. Http:/ www.cafepress.com/karenlibrarian.658595293. To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.” ― R. David Lankes. Firstly, what makes radical librarianship radical?
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Four useful librarian webinars in August ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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Four useful librarian webinars in August. Posted on Thursday, July 30, 2015 by Alexander Kouker. We are sort of just over half way through our term break and some of you might have spare time to tune into some of the upcoming webinars listed below. The suggested topics for August cover collection development, library user engagement, library advocacy strategies, and oral history services. Collection Development Tips and Tools. Thursday, 6th August, 19:00 – 20:00 IST. As an aside, JISC. Oral History @ You...
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June 2015 ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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And it’s not just ukuleles: you can also borrow telescopes, soil testers, stud finders, metal detectors, board games, cake pans, and pedometers, and I’m always on the lookout for other “unusuals” to add to the collection. One of the first questions I’ll cover is a simple one: why circulate unusual items? Well, there are a number of perfectly good reasons. You can probably guess most of them:. Here, try one of ours. I’d love to talk to you and help you get started. Which finds "no significant performance ...
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October 2014 ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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PlumX – EBSCO roadshow, UCD, 30th Oct. 2014. Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending an EBSCO roadshow event, which covered their recently acquired. Plum Analytics service (thanks to Michael Ladisch. Plum Analytics launched back in 2012 on the back of Jason Priem’s rationale around Altmetrics (see the manifesto. The following metrics are considered:. 1 USAGE (clicks, downloads, views, library holdings, video plays). 3 MENTIONS (blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links). In a nutshell, EBSCO’...
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September 2014 ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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On the Value of Popular Music Archives. Dave Grohl outside Baltimore Stores, Cork © Siobhan O Mahony. UCC Library, as part of the Sir Henrys @UCC Library exhibition, recently hosted a roundtable discussion titled Pop@UCC: On the Value of Popular Music Archives. The speakers were from within and without the academy and provided some interesting insights on the area of archives and popular music. The speakers on the panel were Stevie Grainger. And Siobhan O Mahony. The panel was chaired by Eileen Hogan.
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Developing Curation Ready Projects Workshop ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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Developing Curation Ready Projects Workshop. Posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2015 by Alexander Kouker. The day started off with Debra F. Laefer. Who spoke about the higher-order rationale of open access within the digital realm (presentation entitled. The euros and cents of open access data. Introduction to digital curation. Was discussed. The OAIS framework. Was also introduced for the purpose of illustrating the considerations behind the design of archival systems. As well as various DRI guides. Finally,...
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Providing a Map and a Compass: developing Scotland’s first national strategy for public libraries ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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Providing a Map and a Compass: developing Scotland’s first national strategy for public libraries. Posted on Thursday, July 16, 2015 by Alexander Kouker. Guest post by Martyn Evans. Chair of the National Strategy for Public Libraries in Scotland Strategic Group. The Group was established and supported by the Scottish Library and Information Council. Given this context, the National Strategy for Public Libraries Strategic Group set out to develop a strategy (available here. 2 Promote digital inclusion.
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Preservation Book Cleaning - Report on ANTLC course ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
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Preservation Book Cleaning - Report on ANTLC course. Posted on Monday, July 20, 2015 by Martin O Connor. Guest post by Elaine Harrington. Special Collections Librarian, UCC Librar. I was looking forward to the ANLTC. Event on Preservation Book Cleaning. There was a quite a varied group of library people at the course: special collections, collections departments, user services and periodicals and we were attending for the following reasons:. Interested in gaining more knowledge about the area in general.
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