CONUL are signatories to the CILIP Green Libraries Manifesto -working together for people and planet. In partnership with Irish, UK, and International signatories CONUL’s member libraries pledge, ‘to lead by...Read More
The 2024 UX in Libraries conference will take place at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK) from 11 to 13 June. Once again, we will be sharing user experience techniques,...Read More
In advance of Budget 2024, the Board of CONUL has written to the Minister of Education in support of Children’s Books Ireland’s ‘Right To Be A Reader’ Campaign, urging the government...Read More
Libfocus presents the second prize post for the CONUL Training and Development Library Assistant Blog Awards 2023 The author is Kathryn Milligan, Library Assistant at University College Dublin (Special Collections)....Read More
The CONUL Unique and Distinctive Committee launched its Instagram account on 14 September. It will post weekly highlights from the heritage collections of each CONUL institution. Follow along @conul_udc. This...Read More
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 More
University College Cork Library is delighted to welcome musician and author John Robb to UCC Library on September 19th to discuss his new book, The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth. This...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,...Read More
Highly regarded programme with international scope, focuses on learning from diverse perspectives, contributing to connecting people across national boundaries and working towards a shared vision of the present and the...Read More
Ireland’s Survey of Open Repositories is now open until May 30, 2023. Survey via the Website https://www.universityofgalway.ie/openrepositories/survey/ Short URL direct to survey https://forms.office.com/e/D6ksyNAXGuThe survey of open repositories in Ireland is...Read More
Following an international search process, UCC’s new University Librarian, Coral Black, started in her role on Tuesday 11th April 2023. Coral moves to UCC from Australia, where she held the position of University Librarian at...Read More
CONUL Customer Services Group Show & Tell Seminar 2023: All Together Now: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in our Libraries. Registration is now open! The Customer Services Group Show & Tell...Read More
CONUL Customer Services Group Show & Tell Seminar 2023: All Together Now: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in our Libraries Call for Papers The Customer Services Group biennial Show & Tell...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...Read More
UCC Library will host a free, in-person seminar on Monday, March 6, 2023. Venue: Creative Zone, Boole Library, University College Cork Time: 10 – 15:30 The event will explore the role libraries...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 fourth collaborative Erasmus Library Staff Mobility week,...Read More
Check out these videos of participants sharing their experiences attending the CONUL Erasmus week in Dublin and Erasmus programmes in Europe. Recordings are from the “Reconnecting & Reflecting: CONUL...Read More
This year’s seminar is titled “Information Literacy in a New World: exploring concepts of access, sustainability and equity”. Papers will cover how we view and develop information literacy approaches in...Read More
Irish Librarians and library-related organisations wish to express our grave dissatisfaction at the sudden withdrawal by Wiley publishers of over one thousand titles from key ebook collections to which many...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
Open Access publishing is well established in our research landscape, and the advantages of OA are clear, but unfortunately the mechanism and metrics are still tangled with for profit publishers meaning...Read More
“Call for Papers open! The CONUL T&L committee invite submissions to present at their 2022 Annual Seminar: “Information Literacy in a new world: exploring concepts of access, sustainability and equity.” We...Read More
The Library of Trinity College Dublin makes a 13th century masterpiece globally accessible One of the most finely illustrated medieval manuscripts, Matthew Paris’s Book of St Albans has been digitised...Read More
