Libfocus is delighted to present the winning post for the CONUL Training and Development Library Assistant Blog Awards 2023. The author is Maeve Shanahan, Library Assistant at University of Limerick. You can read the article on the Libfocus blog.Read More

Since January, staff at CONUL member institutions have been participating in online training with the Irish Centre for Diversity. The training involved 6 online sessions, each one lasting an hour, and allowed library staff to build their awareness of diversity, inclusion and equality issues. The training began with an introduction to diversity and unconscious bias...Read More

We are delighted to announce that there will be three bursaries to attend CONUL Conference 2023: a LIS Student bursary; a recent LIS Graduate bursary; and a bursary for someone working in the library sector who does not hold a LIS qualification, sponsored by UCD School of Information & Communication Studies (ICS).  Taking place in...Read More

Conul directors were delighted to attend a recent event at the Royal Irish Academy to honour Siobhán Fitzpatrick’s retirement during COVID restrictions as Librarian of the RIA. Read More

The latest UCD Digital Library collection, M. Michael Corcoran’s Photographic Albums, was launched at a research showcase and seminar entitled “Archives of Women Religious in Ireland: the Present and the Future”. The in-person and online hybrid event featured presentations on the significance of women religious archives from the perspectives of both archivists and research scholars....Read More

Registration link and more details. Trinity College Dublin is one of the lead institutions in the IIIF4Research Network and the Library of Trinity College Dublin will host a IIIF4Research online seminar on Monday 28th February 2022, between 4pm and 6pm GMT.  The seminar is one of a series provided by members of the IIIF4Research Network. ...Read More

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for our 2022 CONUL Annual Conference: Library.Now – Welcome to the future! – is now open.   The 2022 conference theme is Library.Now – Welcome to the future! Libraries have been innovating and evolving towards a new future over the last decade, and the last two years...Read More

The Library of Trinity College Dublin’s Digital Collections repository now have persistent identifiers in the form of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) attached to the objects in the repository. A persistent identifier is a long-lasting reference to a resource that eliminates the issue of ‘link rot’. Unique persistent identifiers can be used to consistently identify digital objects...Read More

This week (beginning 18 May) The River-side will post a series of blog posts comprising a student-created online exhibition Mapping Cork: Trade, culture and politics in medieval and early modern Ireland. 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...Read More

On 30 April 2015, Elsevier announced new sharing and hosting policies http://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-updates-its-policies-perspectives-and-services-on-article-sharing for articles published under the Elsevier imprint. CONUL, the Irish Consortium of National and University Libraries, views the policies regressive, posing new obstacles to authors of scholarly articles to share the outcomes of their research and specifically to meet growing expectations of funders...Read More