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Maynooth University Academic Writing Workshop

Colleagues,We are delighted to welcome people back in person to Maynooth University Library, for our annual academic writing workshop, on Wednesday, 8th June.The target audience is library staff who wish to write for academic publication – blog posts, …

Tours of UL Library pre and post CONUL conference

Dear colleagues,We are offering tours of the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick before and after the CONUL Conference 2022<https://conference.conul.ie/>. The conference takes place in The Strand Hotel, Limerick on Wednesday 25th and …

Vacancy RCSI Library Assistant

Dear ColleaguesApologies for cross-posting.Please share with anyone you know who may be interested.Library Assistant RCSIRCSI has a vacancy for a permanent Library Assistant. Full details and to apply https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_rcsip/erq_jobs…

Transcription Week

Hi folks,We are organising a transcription crowdsourcing event later this month. We are calling it #TranscriptionWeek and we are looking to get as many people as possible to contribute in the week running from March 28th to April 1st.We have ~50k pages…

Re: LIR Carpentry Workshop on Python

Hi,Just to notify that these places for tomorrow’s workshop have now beentaken up.Best,LiamOn Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 12:09, Liam O’Dwyer <liam.odwyer@dcu.ie> wrote:> Hello,> A couple of places have become available for our *Regular Expressions*…

LIR Carpentry Workshop on Python

Hello,A couple of places have become available for our *Regular Expressions*online workshop taking place tomorrow, *Thursday, March 10 @ 10am*.This is the last in our current run of Carpentry Workshops, more details onthe series are available here:http…

Job Vacancies at UCC Library

Dear Colleagues,With apologies for cross-posting.UCC Library is currently operationalising our university-approved staffing plan and recruiting to a number of posts throughout the library service. The following posts are open for recruitment at present…

Publishing in the library literature

Colleagues,As part of Maynooth University Library Love Data Week<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/w-59584e83/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaynoothuniversity-my.sharepoint.com%2F%3Aw%3A%2Fg%2Fpersonal%2Fheidi_campbell_mu_ie%2FEbglFFKkpH5Ktq5ts…