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LAI/CILIP Ireland Joint Conference

LAI/CILIP Ireland Joint Conference

The Library Association of Ireland and CILIP Ireland are hosting their joint conference in the Kingsley Hotel Cork on 10-11 April 2025

The conference theme is “Shining Lights”.

Keynote Speaker: Aphra Kerr, Professor of Digital Media & Communications, UCD

Registration for this event is through Eventbrite.

LAI/CILIP Ireland Member Full Delegate Rate €350

LAI/CILIP Ireland Member Day Delegate Rate €100

CONUL Conference 2025

CONUL Conference 2025

Celebrating its 10th anniversary conference, CONUL’s 2025 Conference theme is:

Shaping Tomorrow – Reflections and New Directions

Topics presented over 2 days include:

  • EDI, Equity and Societal Impact
  • Leveraging Library Partnerships (regional or national)
  • New Models for Engagement
  • Open Research and Research Infrastructure
  • People and Digital Futures
  • Supporting Blended Working
  • Sustainable Service Delivery

Register to attend this event here

CILIP Conference 2025

CILIP Conference 2025

CILIP Conference 2025 will focus on leadership in the information, knowledge management and library sector.

North Star: Asserting our ethical principles and leading through change

Against a backdrop of sluggish growth, fast-paced tech innovation, live AI experiments, and viral mis/dis-information, our sector’s ethical framework is more relevant than ever: To preserve knowledge in secure and useful ways, now and in the future. To protect people from misleading and harmful content by upskilling them and giving them access to a wide range of trustworthy information. And to promote responsible, sustainable, and ethical practices.  

CILIP Conference 2025 will explore our ‘North Star’ ethical principles in the context of how we navigate this time of great challenge and opportunity, and examine how we – as trusted information professionals – can exert our influence; demonstrate our impact; and position our sector’s expertise to secure our seat at the top table – whether that be at an organisational, local, national or international level. 

The programme will cover topics such as:

  • Digital inclusion
  • AI literacy and critical thinking about new tools
  • If we really mean ‘yes’? Big Tech, data literacy and consent
  • The latest developments in AI, copyright, and licensing, including how we balance creators’, innovators, and       tax-payers’ rights
  • AI governance

Register for this event here.

Guidance on terminology, application and reporting of citation searching: the TARCiS Statement

Guidance on terminology, application and reporting of citation searching: the TARCiS Statement

Evidence Synthesis Ireland are holding a webinar on Thursday 20th February on Guidance on terminology, application and reporting of citation searching: the TARCiS Statement.

Presented by Dr. Julian Hirt (Research Fellow, University of Basel)and Dr. Christian Appenzeller-Herzog (Medical Information Specialist, University of Basel) this webinar will elaborate on the evidence base and potential benefit of citation searching in health-related evidence syntheses, an overview of citation searching methods, and a detailed presentation of the development and content of the TARCiS statement. The ten TARCiS recommendations on when and how to conduct and report citation searching will be highlighted.

Register for this webinar here

HSLG logo HSLG Conference 2025

HSLG Conference 2025

Our 2025 HSLG Conference title is Cultivating curiosity: a wonderland for librarians.

Date: Thursday, 6 March 2025
Venue: Ashling Hotel, Dublin 8

Our theme explores the role of curiosity within librarianship, which includes:

  • Innovating, challenging and being open to new ideas, experiences and perspectives
  • Planning for the future / creating or adapting to environments of change
  • Delving deep. Understanding and providing evidence of value
  • Lifelong learning
  • Believing impossible things – and making them happen

The conference will be relevant to many library sectors, with speakers from health, academic and
specialist libraries, and will introduce ideas, practical tools and key updates of significance to your
work and professional development.

Discounted prices are available for LAI members and library students, and registration includes
lunch and coffee break.

Curious? Register for this event now: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hslg-conference-2025-cultivating-curiosity-a-wonderland-for-librarians-tickets-1092203563259?aff=oddtdtcreator

The programme is packed with interesting and relevant speakers, with plenty of time to network.
Highlights include keynote speaker Sue Lacey Bryant, CILIP President, and a knowledge café led
by Mairéad McKeown and Amy Bond of Bord Bia.

EAHIL 2024

EAHIL 2024

Welcome to the first European Association of Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) Conference being held in Riga, the capital city of Latvia, from 11th to 14th June 2024.

 

The Conference theme “Small Step and a Giant Leap: Reorienting Towards a New Environment” captures the need for libraries to adapt and thrive in an evolving landscape by embracing both incremental changes and significant advancements. We are excited to announce the conference theme has been carefully crafted to build upon the inspiring ideas of the 2023 theme.

The Conference theme addresses various questions, such as:

  •     How can libraries serve as catalysts for innovation, facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations, and empower users to actively participate in the creation and sharing of knowledge?
  •     How will libraries and librarians support research in their new environment in the foreseeable future?
  •     How can technology be leveraged to support and engage users of health-related information and data?

Let’s contribute and create an environment where libraries are not just repositories of knowledge, but agents of change in the quest for supporting research and innovation!

We look forward to offering you a warm welcome with opportunities for engaging discussion and a chance for librarians and friends from around the world to meet here in Riga!

  •     Abstract submission opens: September 2023
  •     Deadline abstract submission: end October 2023
  •     Notification of acceptance: December 2023
  •     Authors confirm final versions of abstracts: January 2024
  •     Authors confirm attendance: March 2024

 

 

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Taking your Social Media to the next level!

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Saoirse de Paor, teaching & learning librarian at Maynooth University library, gave a presentation at the joint HSLG & A&SL networking evening. She has kindly agreed to share her slides of the presentation. Taking your Social Media to the Next Level!

With her social media and communications hat on, Saoirse de Paor spoke of the different ways that social media platforms can enhance how libraries engage and interact with their users and how it can further promote library services, supports and resources in a new and innovative way.

From working in social media-specific roles and the experience gained from running student initiatives and online campaigns on behalf of Maynooth University Library, Saoirse has gained an insight into the many social media tips and tricks that can help others in the profession to increase visibility and outreach strategies as well as helping to foster connections, partnerships and collaborations.

From developing a brand, to using multiple means of engagement, she will give you the tools to take your library’s social media to the next level!

Saoirse de Paor, BA, MLIS, ALAI.

Saoirse works as a Teaching & Learning Librarian at Maynooth University Library. Her interests include information literacy, development of online learning resources as well as social media promotion and outreach.

Saoirse is the social media officer for the Library Association of Ireland as well as a member of the Communications team for the Career Development Group (of the LAI). She sits on the Digital Communications team of Maynooth University Library and manages various social media campaigns and initiatives as a member of the Teaching & Research Development Team. She also co-led the Irish Communications team at IFLA’S World Library International Congress 2022 in Dublin.

Twitter: @SaoirsePeri

LinkedIn: Saoirse de Paor

Journal club meetings

HSLG Virtual Journal Club 21 April 2021 – Wikipedia Q&A

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HSLG Virtual Journal Club, 21 April 2021, 11am – 11.45am

Wikipedia Q&A

Wikipedia version of “Librarian”, available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian

Suggested questions by Anne Madden:

  1. Does this Wikipedia entry feel like it was written by a librarian? See also the “Talk” tab – any comments? Does it feel neutral or do pro or con librarian views come across?  If you were considering librarianship as a career, would this piece encourage or deter you?
  2. Are librarians still “custodians” or keepers of knowledge or has this role now passed to publishers? If so, where does that leave librarians?
  3. Looking at the ownership or sponsorship of the earliest libraries, how much credence should we give any surviving texts from this era? What may have been the driving force for creating these libraries?
  4. In the 1870’s, librarian tasks were considered to be “”Eminently Suited to Girls and Women.” Do you think this was based on convenience or related to the position of women in society at the time? Or for some other reason?
  5. “The CDC had earlier named librarians as key public health staff to support COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing.” What librarian skills would have led them to that conclusion? What image does it seem to portray of librarians?  Is it an image we should promote?
  6. Copyright isn’t mentioned either. In fact, in the 17th Century, a librarian was seen as a “scribe, one who copies books”.  Do librarians need more legal skills to address copyright and publisher licencing issues, and should they be the first port of call for these issues?
  7. If you were to add a section on Health Librarians, what additional roles or skills would you include? What non-typical skills are you called on to provide in your service?
  8. Looking at the list of “additional responsibilities”, are the core roles of librarians still intact? What does this list suggest about assumptions on librarian values?
  9. When it comes to librarian education, there is very little consensus across the globe. Steve McKinzie argues that an academic qualification is required for e.g. reference interview and doesn’t rate “special training”.  In our own experience, what has been the role of any academic qualification and of CPD/special training?
  10. Technology: “librarians must continually adapt to new formats”. Instead of adapting, should we be leading or collaborating in developments in this field?
  11. Librarian stereotypes – help! Is this seriously still true?  Anyone have any personal experiences of any of this?  Do we inspire fear – timidly??