This week The River-side will post a series of blog posts comprising a student-created online exhibition ‘Beggars and Artisans: A Cultural History of Cork’s Franciscan Friary.’ This online exhibition is curated and overseen by Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton, Senior Lecturer, UCC’s School of History and Elaine Harrington, Special Collections Librarian, UCC Library. Two MA in Medieval History students: Morgan Hole and Martha Ewence,...Read More
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, and Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan made the announcement in the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin. It marks the most significant funding award for the cultural heritage sector this year. Government announces €25 million in funding for the Old Library...Read More
LIBER/UCD Workshop on Citizen Science. Thursday 20th may 13.00-14.30. UCD Library is co-hosting a workshop on citizen science with LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries. This workshop will provide an introduction to citizen science and to outline how libraries and library professionals can support citizen science in the arts and humanities and in STEM....Read More
As Ireland’s public policy objective is to transition to an Open Research ecosystem, TU Dublin is leading the way. TU Dublin’s digital repository Arrow@TUDublin celebrates its 10 millionth download. TU Dublin has always embraced open access to publications. Arrow holds over 15,000 individual research papers and assets, generated by TU Dublin academics and researchers since the repository was...Read More
Sir Charles A Cameron- new RCSI Library commemorative website To commemorate the centenary of the death of Sir Charles Alexander Cameron, which occured on Saturday 27 February 2021, the RCSI Library team is delighted to announce the launch of www.rcsi.com/Cameron a new commemorative website highlighting his life, work and legacy. Charles Alexander Cameron was born...Read More
On January 21st 2021 the CONUL Training and Development subgroup hosted an online seminar covering the topic of Librarians and Open Educational Resources. Speakers from a variety of backgrounds including librarianship, academia and educational technology contributed to the day and over 170 attendees contributed to a lively conversation about the topics discussed. The individual videos...Read More
CONUL T&L is holding its annual seminar online on Thu, February 11, 2021 9:30 AM – 12:30 Title: Key lessons from a year of unprecedented change: academic libraries moving ahead in digital education For more details and to sign up are see here.Read More
Thursday 21 January 2021, 14.00-17.00 GMT The importance of Open Education Resources, (OERS) has being growing in recent years, greatly accelerated by the impact of COVID. The rapid shift to online education from March 2020 onwards has drawn attention to the many gaps in the availability of quality online resources to support teaching. Through this...Read More
CONUL Board has launched its CONUL Strategy for the next three years. In developing this strategy, the directors of the CONUL libraries’ objective is to build on the progress already made through implementing the 2016-2019 strategy towards achieving CONUL’s vision of Irish research libraries preserving Ireland’s memory and advancing Irish discovery. Five strategic themes were identified:...Read More
The Special Collections & Archives Department at the Glucksman Library, UL is pleased to launch its Advent Calendar for 2020. As we are all staying local this Christmas, this year’s advent calendar explores a variety of Munster localities, through the townland, city and county maps and sketches held at the Special Collections and Archives Department...Read More
