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For this year’s Explore Your Archive 2017 campaign, RCSI Library’s Heritage Collections are hosting a public lecture on Saturday 25th November, 1pm in RCSI’s new academic and education building in... Read More

James Hardiman Library invites you to Explore your Archive Wednesday 22nd November, 11:30-13:00 (Bridge Room), Hardiman Research Building Four of NUIG Library Archivists will give a 10-minute talk and you will have... Read More

ANLTC is changing to CONUL T&D from January 2018 The Academic and National Library Training Cooperative (ANLTC) has been delivering high quality training courses to staff in CONUL libraries for... Read More

Johanna Archbold (RCSI) and Michelle Breen (UL) were the winners of the ANLTC Research Award in 2016. Johanna and Michelle’s research is looking at international best practice in press engagement,... Read More

Trying to stay on top of the mass of journal articles published in your area can be a pain. Hence the Library of Trinity College Dublin has purchased access to... Read More

John Cox, University Librarian, NUI Galway, is delighted to invite you to a public lecture by Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland: Memory Keeping in the... Read More

“The Innovative Teacher” is the theme for this year’s Conul Teaching and Learning Seminar…which takes places on Thursday the 16 th of November, 2017 from 10am – 4pm in the... Read More

UCD Digital Library and the National Folklore Collection are pleased to present a collection of postcards depicting images from World War I. This unique little collection contains 18 postcards with... Read More

UCC Library marks the 45th anniversary of three seminal referendums in Irish history with an exhibition in the Boole Library; 1972: Ireland Votes for Change.  These referendums, held in May... Read More

Because of its acquisition of the Bolton Library, the University of Limerick has become a member of the prestigious Cathedral Archives, Libraries and Collections Association, with library staff attending the... Read More

Maria Svenningsson, one of the participants of the recent successful CONUL Erasmus Staff Mobility Programme has written about her experience of the exchange. Her very in-depth reflection can be read... Read More

The Dublin CONUL Libraries, in collaboration with the ANLTC Committee, recently came together to host 18 visiting European librarians as part of the ERASMUS Staff Mobility Programme. A report, written... Read More

The Western Regional Section of the Library Association of Ireland is running a free online digital skills course, starting in September 2017.  The course is called Rudaí23, the name is... Read More

UCC Library announces the launch of its new library services in advance of the 2017/2018 academic year.  These services include a redesigned Library web presence, complemented by a new discovery... Read More

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland’s state of the art new academic and education building will open in autumn 2017. The College has invested approximately €80 million in the... Read More

On 26 June 2017, Kate Manning, Principal Archivist, UCD Archives, was appointed as a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, for a five year period, by Heather Humphreys, TD, Minister... Read More

Our recent conference in Athlone gets a mention in this Irish Times article by keynote Lorcan Dempsey Read the article  

Libfocus has posted two #conulac17 related posts. The first is a post from our two bursary winners, Sophie Lynch and Louise Wasson as they reflect on the application process and... Read More

The National Folklore Collection began a new project on April 20th with the launch of their Blúiríní Béaloidis / Folklore Fragments podcast. A new monthly, bilingual folklore podcast, Blúiríní Béaloidis... Read More

Christopher Pressler, CONUL Director and University Librarian, DCU, shares his reflections on the recent CONUL Conference 2017 along with some thoughts on our research community. Read the article.

Discover and explore the historical treasures found within the UCD Cultural Heritage units, which include UCD Archives, UCD Digital Library, Special Collections, and the National Folklore Collection, through a new... Read More

Recordings of all the successful #conulac17 plenary talks can be viewed at the CONUL Conference YouTube Channel. Presentation Slides can be found at https://www.slideshare.net/conulconference

Congratulations from the CONUL Board to Ellen Breen (DCU), Carmel O’Sullivan (UCD), Lorna Dodd (MU), and all the Conference Team for organising a wonderful and very successful CONUL conference at... Read More

The 2017 CONUL Conference can be followed via our Livestream at http://conference.conul.ie/conference-livestream/ from 10.40 Tuesday 30 May until 16.30 Wednesday 31 May. You can also follow the live Twitter feed for the full... Read More

UCC Library is currently hosting a three day Art workshop by internationally recognised mixed media  artist and art educator Alyssa Hinton. Alyssa is the great-great granddaughter of George Boole. The... Read More

It is with sympathy that the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick announces the death of Captain Pat Armstrong on May 23rd 1917. Captain Armstrong was shot and killed... Read More

We are delighted to announce that the programme for the 2017 CONUL Annual Conference is now available. The schedule features an exciting and diverse mix of plenary sessions, presentations, lightning... Read More

UCD Library has included community engagement as one of its strategic themes 2017-2020. After reviewing what is currently being done in this area which includes both teaching and learning and... Read More

CONUL is delighted to announce the first collaborative ERASMUS Library Staff Mobility week, 26-30 June 2017, in Dublin.  The event is being organised by CONUL’s Staff training and Development Group,... Read More

We are delighted to announce that the draft programme for the 2017 CONUL Annual Conference is now available. The schedule features an exciting and diverse mix of plenary sessions, presentations,... Read More

The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick collaborated with the Centres for Teaching & Learning at NUIG, UCD and Mary Immaculate College in a National Forum for the Enhancement... Read More

To mark National Digital Skills Week 2017 RCSI Library hosted two collaborative Digital Skills Hub pop-ups with departments from across College to showcase the range of supports, courses, activities and... Read More

We are delighted to have recently gone live with a new service, a virtual new arrivals shelf, which lists new additions to our collection and includes both newly published titles in various... Read More

During Digital Skills Week 2017, librarians at the Glucksman Library, with journalism students at UL, will teach people how to Go Beyond Headlines and spot Fake News. This event will... Read More

Over the past few weeks the Library has been providing the space and coordination for a short series of classes as part of the Digital 121 initiative where members of... Read More

The Library was delighted to work in collaboration with UCD Research to host a class of Science Apprentices from Rutland Street NS on World Book Day – March 2nd. A class... Read More

On Tuesday, February 28th 2017 members of the Flynn family visited NUI Galway to view the archive of Flynn and Lehany Coal Mines Limited.  The Flynn family has very generously... Read More

Clifden Arts Festival Committee has decided to place its print and digital archive into the safe keeping of UCD Library, where it will become part of the UCD Heritage Collection.Hailed... Read More

We are very happy to announce that registration for the CONUL Annual Conference 2017 is now open. This year’s conference will take place on May 30th-31st in the Hodson Bay... Read More

In Ireland’s Memory. Ireland’s Discovery. 2016-2019, the CONUL Strategy aims to ensure Irish representation at significant events and conferences relating to research libraries. Organisations relevant to research libraries were identified... Read More

UCD Library is working with Bord na Gaeilge UCD on a project which has been sponsored by the UCD SPARC initiative. This initiative provides small grants to facilitate joint projects... Read More

CONUL ANLTC, our committee with responsibility for the delivery of staff training and professional development opportunities, has delivered a packed Annual Review for 2015.  With representatives from each of the... Read More

The James Hardiman Library are delighted to present the next in our Digital Publishing Brownbag Pitch series, focusing on Duanaire, A Treasury of Digital Data for Irish Economic History. The... Read More

As the year draws to a close, we wish all our CONUL colleague together with colleagues throughout the library, archive and information sectors at home and abroad, a very Happy... Read More

CONUL, a new vision for Ireland’s research libraries. Irish Tech News interviews Christopher Pressler about CONUL’s new strategy. Read the article..

Trinity’s LERU membership to influence EU research policy for benefit of Ireland Trinity College Dublin has joined the prestigious ranks of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). It is... Read More

During December, the Glucksman Library will be counting down the days until Christmas with an online Advent calendar. Each day a new item will be revealed, each item is drawn... Read More

Irish research libraries to boost access to collections and increase international collaboration New strategy to make national online catalogue available in line with international standards CONUL’s Strategy document ─ Ireland’s... Read More