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*** Apologies for cross posting ***Closing date 3pm on Monday 27th AprilDigital Preservation ManagerThe National Library of Ireland is offering an excellent opportunity to work as a Digital Preservation Manager. The successful candidate will take up a …

Dear Colleagues,The next two carpentry lessons will be delivered online this weekIntroduction to Git April 1 10:00 am (Instructor – Liam O’Dwyer)OpenRefine April 3 10:00 am (Instructor – Sinead Keogh)Book now to avoid disappointment. Link below:https:/…

Thanks David,I will write a tweet for an overview of your email.Only thing that was left out was a mention that each session will belimited to a maximum of 12 people per workshop.Well done, it was a great idea and you have turned it around really fast….

Dear All,At LIR, we have been working hard on a way to fulfil our mission in these unusual times.We will deliver all Library Carpentry lessons online free of any charge to librarians online. The lessons start on Wednesday 25th of March with Intro to Da…

Dear All,Please register your interest for the next LIR Event:We will be running a Library Carpentry Session at Athlone I.T. The lessons that we will be teaching are SQL and OpenRefine.Please register yourself here if you are interested:https://lirgrou…

Dear Colleagues,You may be interested in the publication of Sustainable and FAIR Data Sharing in the Humanities<https://allea.org/portfolio-item/sustainable-and-fair-data-sharing-in-the-humanities/>, a new ALLEA report authored by the working gro…

Dear Colleagues,I would like to draw your attention to a new opportunity to join the team here at The Library of Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin:Head of Content Management & Open Scholarship, see:http://jobs.tcd.ieI would be most g…

Dear Colleagues,You are warmly invited to the following events in our Unboxing Open Scholarship series<https://libguides.tcd.ie/open-scholarship/relive2019>:<https://libguides.tcd.ie/open-scholarship/relive2019>’Open Education Talks’. Dr. A…

Dear all,Early Delegate Registration is now open for the CONUL Annual Conference 2020 taking place on the 27th & 28th May in The Strand Hotel, Limerick http://conference.conul.ie/registration-2020/ Please note Early Delegate Registration is only av…

Apologies for Cross Posting. Please see Call for Papers for WBIMLC 2020, Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina, June 10th-12th 2020. Call for papers deadline: 10th May 2020.WESTERN BALKAN INFORMATION AND MEDIA LITERACY CONFERENCE 2020.THEME: INFORMATION LITE…

[cid:image001.jpg@01D5E25E.AEA5C3C0]The University of Limerick (UL) with over 16,300 students and 1,400 staff is an energetic and enterprising institution with a proud record of innovation and excellence in education, research and scholarship. The dyna…

Dear Maura,We used heat mapping with hotjar. It was very useful and informed some changed that inceased website usage.NIamh[cid:image001.jpg@01D5D6B4.E55507B0]Niamh Walker-Headon BA, MSc LIS, ALAI.Systems LibrarianTallaght Campus

Dear all,If anybody out there has done any library website / library search engine usability testing, I would be very interested in how you approached the process, and what if any external tools you used?We are looking at testing using a heatmapping se…

Dear Colleagues,We will be holding the LIR AGM at 11am on the 20th of February. If anyone wants to represent their institution at the committee, then now would be a good time. We also would like to hear from you if you have any suggestions for amendmen…

Hi all,Circulating on behalf of AS & L.Thank you,JeanMs Jean Murphy BA, MLISLibrary Digital Systems and Services Co-Ordinator[cid:rcsi-crest-signature_f581c185-1d03-45c8-a786-23d8ece3d391.png]RCSI RCSI LibraryRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland26 …

Brilliant, Santa should go into consultancy as the one person withcenturies of experience and a global reach.PeterOn Tue 17 Dec 2019, 12:50 p.m. Jean Murphy, <jeanmurphy@rcsi.ie> wrote:>> *Ms **Jean Murphy* BA, MLIS> Library Digital Syst…

[cid:image001.jpg@01D5B4D7.20B4DD30]Ms Jean Murphy BA, MLISLibrary Digital Systems and Services Co-Ordinator[cid:rcsi-crest-signature_f581c185-1d03-45c8-a786-23d8ece3d391.png]RCSI RCSI LibraryRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland26 York Street Dublin 2 …

I’ve had the March edition of Cilip’s Information Professional Magazine beside me for months now, and failed to actually pick it up. Cover story was on AI and Ethicshttps://www.cilip.org.uk/news/442030/Kriti-Sharma-Ethics-AI-and-bots.htmRegards,PeterFr…

Hi David,I have retweeted the OCLC article from the LIR twitter account.Let me take a look at mentimeter.regards,James MolloyCollege Liaison LibrarianEngineering and ArchitectureUCD LibraryRoom 302, Level 3, James Joyce BuildingT: +353 (0)1 7167369 | E…

Hi David,On a related note:It’s a week tomorrow (Friday Dec 12th) since we held the Seminar.We need to send out the Menti feedback link to attendees while the seminar is still fresh in their minds.As we were unable to get the link working last week in …