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The Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick and the Glucksman Library, UL, will co-host a seminar series, commencing in April 2018 and extending into the 2018-19 academic year, to celebrate the... Read More

The UCC Library Green Energy Team have won the Best Library Team Award  at the Irish Education Awards in Dublin last week. The awards recognise excellence in the third level education... Read More

CONUL is delighted to be sponsoring, along with the Library Association of Ireland, the closing reception of the Information Professionals Network information professionals careers exhibition being held in Dublin Business... Read More

The Glucksman Library at UL will host the Islandora Foundation for its 2018 EU Islandora Camp on June 20th to 22nd this year. Islandora Camp is a three-day event consisting... Read More

For the month of March, which includes International Women’s Day, the Library of Trinity College Dublin launched two female-centric exhibitions, plus held a Wikipedia editing workshop as part of the... Read More

Understanding Altmetrics to determine where your research is gaining attention. John Cox, University Librarian at NUI Galway, is delighted to invite you to a public lecture by Jane Burns, Altmetric... Read More

Introduction to Regular Expressions Speaker: Peter Corrigan, NUI Galway Library’s Digital Publishing Team head Sponsored by NUI Galway Library and the Moore Institute Thursday, March 21st, 2018, 12 – 1... Read More

Great care and attention is required in the judicious use of online sources in academic work. No online source has gained more publicity than Wikipedia, whose distrust perhaps stems from... Read More

The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal 2017-2019, confirming that ISSDA is a recognised Trusted Digital repository. The CoreTrustSeal... Read More

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 CONUL Annual Conference, which will be held on 30th-31st May in the Galway Bay Hotel. The conference theme, Transformative Experiences:... Read More

UCD Digital Library and An Garda Síochána are delighted to present the Dublin Metropolitan Police and Civic Guard (Garda Síochána) Personnel Registers collection. This wonderful collection comprises of two large... Read More

Similar to Open Access Week, the purpose of the Love Data Week (LDW) event is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data... Read More

The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick, together with Professor Raymond J Friel, School of Law at UL recently launched the UL Resource Guide for Brexit.   The guide was... Read More

The NUI Galway Library invites you to a seminar which will take place on Thursday 8th February at 13:00, G011 Hardiman Research Building.  Please register via this link, a sandwich... Read More

We are delighted to announce that CONUL (Consortium of National & University Libraries) is once again providing funding for two enthusiastic individuals to attend its 2018 conference, with the theme... Read More

UCD Library is the first library in Ireland to sign up to OCLC Sustainable Collection Services to tackle collection management challenges UCD Library has embarked on a plan to review... Read More

UCC Library are very proud to be hosting an exhibition of work by renowned American photographer and academic Judith Aronson. The exhibition is titled Likenesses: Portraits of Literary and Cultural... Read More

Abstract submissions are welcome for consideration for the 2018 annual conference of CONUL, the Consortium of National and University Libraries in Ireland, which will be held in Galway, Ireland on... Read More

UCC Library is proud to be the winner of a 2017 Cork Environmental Forum Award. UCC Library won the Public Sector award for their #loveourlibrary campaign. The campaign has led... Read More

From the 13 to 24 of December, Maynooth University Library we will be featuring a Christmas card each day on our social media pages. The Christmas cards come from the... Read More

In support of CONUL’s strategic objective of being the platform for our international presence, CONUL Training & Development is delighted to announce the second collaborative ERASMUS Library Staff Mobility week,... Read More

Beginning December 1, UCD Library’s Cultural Heritage units will be tweeting a new photo, document and other items from our vast range of collections every day until December 24. Follow... Read More

Abstract submissions are welcome for consideration for the 2018 annual conference of CONUL, the Consortium of National and University Libraries in Ireland, which will be held in Galway, Ireland on... Read More

On December 1st the 2017 Glucksman Library’s Advent Calendar goes live. Drawing on the University’s Special Collections and Archives, the calendar provides a virtual taster (calorie-free!) of the rich breadth... Read More

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