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Dublin: UNESCO City of Literature

abevan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:01:42 +0000

Dublin’s Lord Mayor, Gerry Breen, in the company of the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin T.D., formally announced Dublin’s designation as UNESCO City of Literature today (Monday July 26 2010). Dublin is one of only four cities in the world with the designation of UNESCO: City of Literature. The sought after accolade was bestowed by the Director General of UNESCO and recognises Dublin’s cultural profile and its international standing as a city of literary excellence.
* Dublin UNESCO City of Literature website; * Read the full press release; * Dublin’s writers tell us why Dublin is a city of literature.
The UNESCO City of Literature award is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network launched in 2004. Dublin joins Iowa City, Melbourne and Edinburgh on the UNESCO list.
View the Video Of Congratulations from Iowa City, USA:

Amazon sells more ebooks than hardcover books

abevan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:02:08 +0000

Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books
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Vacancies – Assistant Librarian, Information Services, NUI, Maynooth (Three-year Contract Post)

abevan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:23:45 +0000

The successful candidate will support learning, teaching and research in designated subject areas. S/he will play an active role in the Information Services as a whole and the wider library team.
For more information and Application procedure please see information booklet
The completed application documents must be forwarded by email to reach the Public Appointments Service no later than Thursday 5th August, 2010.
National University of Ireland, Maynooth is an equal opportunities employer.

dlr Library Voices presents…

abevan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:08:09 +0000

Criostos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap will be appearing in the Assembly Room, County Hall, Dun Laoghaire on Wednesday August 4th at 7.30pm.
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon,a man slaps an unruly three-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it.
The Slap won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009 and has been on Australian bestseller lists since its publication in 2008. It’s now a best seller in Ireland and the UK and is one of the most talked-about novels of the year. Not to be missed!
Tickets €5.00 from Pavilion Box Office. Call (01) 231 2929.
www.dlrcoco.ie/library

MOUNTAINS TO SEA BOOK FESTIVAL 2010

abevan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:42:44 +0000

The Mountains to Sea dlr Book festival will take place from September 7th to 12th 2010. The festival takes place in various venues in Dun Laoghaire, and is comprised of a series of different literary events.
Tickets go on sale from August 4th and are available via the website or the booking line +353 1 231 2929.
In 2009, The Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival enjoyed a fantastic debut thanks to the support and enthusiasm of local book-lovers and, thankfully, not a few first-time visitors to Dún Laoghaire. One writer praised the inaugural festival as “of international standard, with a great local tilt”. On a glorious weekend, the Festival welcomed over 5000 guests who revelled in near-Mediterranean sunshine while strolling from venue to venue.
This year we have aimed to build on that initial success by expanding the programme and the range of events on offer. Among the authors appearing will be no less than four former Booker Prize-winners (five, if you count the late JG Farrell who is honoured in a special appreciation event). Fans of crime fiction, sport and politics are also catered for while the children’s programme is vastly expanded with a Children’s Author Lunch among the highlights. Leviathan Political Cabaret and the DLR Literary Tour return and to deliver The Beckett Address we are pleased to welcome one of Ireland’s finest actors and directors, Alan Stanford .
Also appearing will be Kate Atkinson, DBC Pierre, Joseph O’Connor, Jennifer Johnston, David McWilliams, former Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald, Waterstone’s founder Tim Waterstone and the great Australian novelist, Alex Miller.
For more information on this year’s event visit www.mountainstosea.ie or phone 01 231 2929.

MyRI project – Measuring Your Research Impact

abevan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:20:09 +0000

4 Irish academic libraries have been successful in bidding for funding for a project to collaborate in producing bibliometrics awareness and training materials. Participating are the libraries of: University College Dublin; Dublin City University, National University of Ireland Maynooth and Dublin Institute of Technology.
Bibliometrics is a set of methods used to measure research publications and is one key approach being used to assess research impact.
Deliverables will include an online tutorial, worksheets, posters, booklets, and multimedia elements. Materials will be editable wherever possible and as well as a generic package, exemplars of adapting and using the materials for Computer Science and Geography will also be delivered.
The grant is from NDLR the Irish National Digital Learning Resources service, with the deliverables hosted in their repository and available for all to use under Open Access license. More information about this project, which should have materials available by year end, can be seen here.

Past vacancies – Graduate Trainee Programme, Marine Institute, Oranmore.

abevan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:09:13 +0000

Opportunity for Library/Information Studies Graduate.
The Marine Institute is currently recruiting a Library and Information Stagiaire. This position provides an excellent training opportunity for a recent graduate (last 2 years) with a minimum of an Honours Degree, Masters or Graduate Diploma in Information/Library Studies, wishing to gain quality work experience in a library environment. Work experience is provided for a maximum period up to 50 weeks on a fixed term, fixed purpose Graduate Training contract with a stipend of €21,850 per annum pro rated with time worked.
Full details are advertised on the Marine Institute website under Current Vacancies.
The closing date for applications is Friday July 23 at 4.30pm.

Vacancies – Lecturer, UCD School of Information and Library Studies

abevan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:51:14 +0000

Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Information and Library Studies, located within the UCD School of Information and Library Studies. An appointment will be offered on either a temporary 5-year or permanent basis.
The appointed Lecturer will teach within the School and contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas:
Metadata, information technology design and evaluation, computer-supported cooperative work, health science informatics, human information behavior, management in information organizations, information retrieval, digital libraries, information architecture, classification, information literacy, and/or related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures.
S/he will also be required to participate effectively in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programmes and to contribute to the academic life of the School, College and University.
Closing date: 23:30hrs on Thursday September 30 2010
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. UCD is unable to accept late applications.
Informal enquiries can be sent to the Head of School, Prof. Diane H. Sonnenwald at +35317167799.

Vacancies – Intra-European Fellowship – Disaster Management

abevan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:13:37 +0000

Individuals interested in disaster management are sought for Intra-European Fellowship applications for post-doctoral or visiting researcher positions to work at the University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin, Ireland. Candidates with a dual background in information science and computing, and who are interested in the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures in the context of emergency response, are particularly encouraged to apply. The envisioned project relates to outlining the ideal characteristics for the development of new information systems for real-time emergency response management.
These prestigious EU fellowships have salaries that begin at €56,400 plus a mobility allowance and training stipend. They are for a period of 12-24 months and are anticipated to begin in summer 2011.
- Candidates must be in possession of the Ph.D.s by 1 August 2010 (as verified by their university’s registrar) and have highly competitive academic credentials
- All nationalities welcome, but the candidate must currently be residing in an EU member country of affiliated state (e.g., Turkey, Switzerland, Israel)
- Irish candidates can apply, if they have been out of Ireland for 36 months
- Non-Irish candidates currently living in Ireland can also apply, if they have not been in Ireland for more than 11 months as of 1 August2010.
Please note that this process is to assist a competitive candidate in their application to an EU funding programme. The host institution will help the selected applicant devise and edit their application (due 17 August 10).
Interested applicants should send their full CV and publication list to Dr. Debra Laefer and Prof. Diane H. Sonnenwald.

The National and Kildare Libraries’ excellent adventure

abevan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:24:12 +0000

The Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Awards are designed to showcase and celebrate public service projects that make a particular difference to the way the citizen can avail of services. The Awards promote innovation and excellence. The creative use of resources and the development of new efficiencies are typical hallmarks of successful entries. Kildare County Council and the National Library of Ireland were among the award winning projects this year.

Kildare County Council – Clocha Rince Library Project
This project features the provision of a library service to a rural community through a partnership with Clocha Rince National School. The main objective is to provide a template which can be easily replicated and adapted to provide a similar community resource via community partnerships and facility sharing approaches.
This initiative has provided an increase of 400% in opening hours (service had been the mobile library). Community services also provided include public access PCs, study facilities, parent and toddler groups, active age, social information evenings and other services targeted at specific groups.
The cost of the average standalone library of a similar size is €249,000 in the first year whereas Clocha Rinca has cost €60,000.

National Library of Ireland – the Sources Project
This project digitised, encoded and delivered – as a freely searchable online resource – 180,000 records for Irish manuscripts and periodical records, created by National Library staff over a 30 year period (to 1970). Most of the source material had previously been published in the form of 17,000 pages of records but was only accessible as printed catalogues in a small number of major research institutions and specialist libraries.
The project facilitated new ways of accessing the data, as well as the inclusion of new data by including records for additional National Library manuscripts. Every article in 157 key Irish periodicals published over the course of nearly 200 years is included. Close to 100,000 manuscripts worldwide from the remotest monastery to the vast collections of the National Library are included. Catalogue records for all National Library manuscripts are available online.

The Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Awards take place every two years. Selected projects from among the Award winners have, traditionally, been showcased at international “Quality Conferences” as models of best practice. Details of the award winners can be found here.