Annual General Meeting 2000

Thursday February 24th, Room 4050A Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin.

Programme

• 2:00 The Builder Project
  Ruth Jenkins, Birmingham University will talk about this eLib Hybrid Library Project
• 2.45 The Institutes of Technology MIS project
  Ann Cleary, MIS Project
• 3:30 Discussion, questions
• 3:45 Tea / Coffee
• 4:00 AGM, Election of new committee members
  Discussion on future of LIR

From a Distance: Web based information management (followed by AGM)

Friday 27th April – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Programme

• 2:00 Welcome
• 2.05 OpenLibr@ry: creating library service at a distance
  Nicky Whitsed – Director Open University Library
• 2:40 Discussion
• 3:00 The Liberated Librarian – facing change in academic libraries
  Dr. Judith Palmer – Keeper of Scientific Books – Radcliffe Science Library of Oxford.
• 3:40 Discussion
• 4:00 Coffee followed by AGM.

Strategies for quality retrieval in the web environment (followed by AGM)

Ussher Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. Tuesday 26th March, 2002

Programme

• 11:00 Coffee & Registration
• 11:30 Chairperson’s Welcome
• 11:40 The Search for quality: productive web searching
  John Cox, Deputy Librarian, NUI Galway
• 12:20 The National Information Server: a key resource for the Irish higher education community
  Marie Reddan, Librarian, NUI Galway.
• 12:35 Demonstration of NIS (National Information Server)
  Patricia Soria, Web/Information Manager
• 12:45 Lunch.
• 2:00 Keeping alert:the productive use of web-based current awareness
  Alison McNab, Collection Manager, Journals and Discovery Tools, JISC/DNER.
• 2:45 Questions
• 3.00 LIR AGM
• 4:00 Close

The Hybrid Library: Dream of Reality?

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 14th February, 2003

Programme

• 10:30 Coffee & Registration
• 11:00 Chairperson’s Welcome: Overview of the Hybrid Library
• 11:05 The Hybrid Library: Revolution or Evolution
  Miriam Corcoran, Sub-Librarian, Planning and Administration, Dublin City University.
• 11:30 Managing Electronic Resources
  • Managing Management issues in the development of a hybrid library
    Sean Phillips, Librarian, Trinity College, Dublin
  • Hybrid or Hydra? – Managing E-Journals at Trinity College Dublin
    John Cremin, Periodicals Librarian, Trinity College Dublin
  • IRIS: Current State and Future Development
    Fiona McGoldrick, Manager IRIS Project
• 12:30 Lunch.
• 1:30 Virtual Learning Environments
  • Linking Digital Libraries with VLEs: The 4i Project at the University of Ulster library
    Clare Uhomoibhi, Systems Officer, Library, University of Ulster
  • Bodington: An Open Source Learning Environment
    Jon Maber, Learning Systems Development Officer, University of Leeds
• 2:30 The Hybrid Library Building
  • To Build Anew: the University of Ulster Experience
    Elaine Urquhart, Assistant Director, Library, University of Ulster
  • The New Library Project at University College Cork
    Seamus McMahon, Deputy Librarian, University College Cork
• 3:00 Coffee
• 3.20 Staffing the Hybrid Library
  • Towards a New Culture in Staffing
    Dr. Alan MacDougall, Director of Information Services & Systems, Kings College London
• 3:50 Discussion
• 4:15 AGM

Digital Library Directions: Current Initiatives

Davis Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. Friday 26th March, 2004

Programme

• 10:30 Coffee & Registration
• 11:00 Chairperson’s Welcome
• 11:05 Electronic journals: current trends/future directions Helen Fallon, Deputy Librarian, NUI Maynooth
• 11:45 Developments in electronic theses
  Geraldine McFeeley, Sub-Librarian, Dublin City University.
• 12:00 DAEDALUS: developing an agenda for institutional e-print archives
  William Nixon, Glasgow University.
• 1:00 Lunch.
• 2:15 TEXTACCESS: Ireland’s resource guide and union catalogue of alternative format resources for print-disabled students
  Anne Madden, Project Resource Officer, TextAccess.
• 2:30 How to make your e-resources earn their keep.
  Ruth Stubbings, Academic Services Manager, Loughborough University Library
• 3:15 AHealyLir
  Arlene Healy, Sub-Librarian, Trinity College Dublin
• 3:45 Questions, Comments, followed by LIR AGM, Close

Mont Clare Hotel Dublin-Friday 25th February, 2005

Programme

• 10:30 Coffee & Registration
• 11:00 Chairperson’s Welcome
• 11:05 Virtually Irrelevant: the digital library conundrum.
  Prof. Derek Law Librarian & Head of Information Resources Directorate.
• 11:45 SPARC Europe
  Paul Sheehan, Director of Library Services, Dublin City University.
• 12:15 Google Scholar
  Tony Eklof, Information Skills & European Documentation Centre Librarian. University College Dublin.
• 12:35 Questions & Debate.
• 12:45 Lunch (not provided).
• 2:00 IReL e-resources
  John Fitzgerald, Librarian, University College Cork.
• 2:45 Link Resolvers: Serials Solutions
  Aine Finucane, Acquisitions Librarian, University of Limerick.
• 3:10 Link Resolvers: SFX
  Niall McSweeney, Sub Librarian, Information Services, NUI Galway
  Monica Crump, Sub Librarian, Bibliographic Services. NUI Galway.
• 3:40 Questions, Comments, Close
• 3:45 LIR AGM

In cyberspace no one can hear you scream: managing electronic resources

Joly Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin – Tuesday 14th March 2006

Programme

• 10:30 Coffee & Registration
• 11:00 Welcome
• 11:05 Sometimes a Scream is Better than a Thesis.
  Peter Brophy, Professor of Information Management and Director of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (CERLIM) at the Manchester Metropolitan University.
• 11:50 Marshalling the Troops – Tools that Facilitate the Management of Electronic Resources
  Yvonne Desmond, Faculty Librarian and Brian Widdis, Assistant Librarian, DIT
• 12:10 Needles in Haystacks: Metasearching and Management of Miscellaneous Material
  Ronan Kennedy, Electronic Resources Co-ordinator, NUI Galway.
• 12:30 Questions & Debate
• 12:45 Lunch (not provided)
• 2:00 One Size Fits All? Metadata for a Multimedia Virtual Library and Archive
  John McDonough Project Manager IVRLA, University College Dublin.
• 2:20 National Digital Learning Repository
  Sean O’Brien, Network Engineer, HEAnet.
• 2:40 Revelations: the Introduction of Electronic Theses and Dissertations in TCD
  Niamh Brennan, Research Support System Administrator, Trinity College Dublin.
• 3:00 Developing Digital Resources for Art and Design Teaching: the NCAD Digitization Project
  Dr. Marta Bustillo, Slide and New Media Librarian, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
• 3:20 Questions and debate followed by LIR AGM

The Virtual User: Are You Being Served?

Organised by LIR HEAnet user group for libraries

School of Nursing and Midwifery
Trinity College Dublin
24 D’Olier Street, D2 (Map) : Thursday 29th March 2007

Draft Programme

• 09.45 – 10.30 Coffee & Registration
• 10.30 Welcome Remarks
• 10.35 – 11.30 Responsive Service Delivery in the Digital Age.
  Ellen Breen, Sub-Librarian Information and Public Services, DCU.
• 11.30 – 12.15 OJAX: A Web 2.0 search user interface
  Dr Judith Wusteman, UCD School of Information & Library Studies
• 12.15 – 12.45 New LIR Web site
  Tony Murphy, Systems Librarian, Institute of Technology, Tralee.
• 12.45 – 2.00 Lunch (not provided)
• 2.00 – 2.40 NDLR and Communities of Practice
  Dr Philip Cohen, Head of Library Services, DIT.
• 2.40 – 3.05 Podcasting and RSS Feeds
  Aine Meehan, Systems Librarian, Sligo Institute of Technology
• 3.05 – 3.30 Learning to talk-UCD library’s Pilot Chat Service
  Cathal McCauley, Sub-Librarian Reader Services, UCD
• 3:30 – 3.50 Questions and Discussion followed by LIR AGM

Empowering Our Users

Organised by LIR HEAnet user group for libraries

Liberty Hall, Dublin : Monday 14th April, 2008

Programme

• 09.45 – 10.30 Coffee & Registration
• 10.30 – 11:45 Welcome Remarks by LIR Chair, Donna O Doibhlin, (UL),
  followed by “The network reconfigures the library: place, collections, people and systems.”
  Keynote Speaker: Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC
• 11.45 – 12.15 “Semantic Web: What is it? How does it affect libraries?”
  Professor Mary Burke, School of Information and Library Studies, UCD
• 12:15 � 12:45 “Strategy for improving access to core text materials.”
  Elizabeth Murphy, NUI Maynooth
• 12:45 � 14:00 Lunch provided for all attendees
• 14:00 � 14:30 “An Irish perspective on emerging social networking technologies and their possible implications for the library world.”
  John Breslin, DERI
• 14:30 � 15:00 “Personal Technology as an Enabler for Students – Technologies students are using and their experiences.”
  Michael Nowlan, independent network and IT consultant
• 15:00 � 15:30 “Self service information kiosk”
  Tony Clarke, UCD.
• 15.30 Seminar Close
• 15.45 LIR AGM

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