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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…

Re: Library Carpentry Workshops – Book your Place!

Apologies, there was a temporary issue with some of the booking pages there- all should be working fine now!Best regards,LiamOn Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 09:51, Liam O’Dwyer <liam.odwyer@dcu.ie> wrote:> The first two of our upcoming online Library C…

Library Carpentry Workshops – Book your Place!

The first two of our upcoming online Library Carpentry workshops (in*OpenRefine* and *Tidy Data*) are fully booked.The other workshops in the series (*SQL, Git and Github, Python *and *RegularExpressions) *are all now available for booking on our websi…

Job Opportunity at NUI Galway: Digital Archivist

Dear all,The post of Digital Archivist at NUI Galway has now been advertised.Full details at: https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs/This is a great opportunity to join NUI Galway Library’s Digital Publishing and Innovation Team. Please share with anyo…