abevan May 13th, 2010
UCD Library has 2 vacancies for Assistant Librarians on the Liaison Librarian team.
Both posts are 12 month fixed term contracts.
The closing date is Thursday May 27th
Full details and application procedures are available on the UCD HR Website
nmcnamara February 17th, 2010
UCD Library is advertising a 4 month contract post for a librarian or archivist.
The post will involve working on the Royal College of Science for Ireland Library which was inherited by University College Dublin.
This project is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Please follow this link to find details of the post and to apply online http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/
nmcnamara September 9th, 2009
September sees changes take place in the School of Information and Library Studies, UCD. Professor Diane Sonnenwald will be taking up the Professorship vacated by Professor Michael Casey. Diane comes to UCD from the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, and has previously held the Associate Professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the NSF & NATO Postdoc at RisØ National Laboratory, and the MTS at Bell Communications Research. Diane takes the post of Head of School which was most recently held by Dr. Ian Cornelius, and she and all at the School would like to express their sincere thanks to Dr Cornelius for all his work as Head of School.
Also, Professor Mary Burke will be retiring as of the end of September. Mary Burke joined the staff at the Department of Library and Information Studies at UCD in October 1977 after four years as an information scientist at the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards. Before that, she completed a PhD in Chemistry at UCD and an MSc in Information Studies at the University of Sheffield. She was the first lecturer appointed to join Professor John Dean in the newly established Department of Library and
Information Studies (DepLIS), which subsequently became the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS). Continue Reading »
abevan July 10th, 2009
UCD Adult Education will be presenting two courses in association with the National Library of Ireland:
The course on Yeats and his poetry, based on the National Library’s extremely popular exhibition Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats, will explore the life and work of Yeats and will consist of lectures, seminars and guided tours of the Yeats exhibition. By focusing principally on the poetry of Yeats, the following topics will be examined: his early poetry of escape and anticipation and his portrayal in verse of both the Civil and Anglo-Irish Wars. The course will also investigate how Yeats’s poetry reflects his preoccupation with friendship, Thoor Ballylee, Charles Stewart Parnell and Cuchulain, while there will also be a discussion of the controversy caused by his play The Countess Cathleen. The Course tutor is Gerard Dineen.
Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin 2.
Tuesdays, 10am – 12.30pm, 29 September – 17 November.
Tours of the exhibition Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats focusing on the theme of ‘Yeats and Myths’ will take place during Heritage Week at 1pm on 24, 25 and 26 August.
Uncovering 1916: this course will explore the events surrounding the 1916 Rising. Lectures will reveal the context, course and aftermath of the rebellion as well as issues surrounding its interpretation and commemoration. Manuscript material, newspapers, ephemera and a trip to the National Photographic Archive which will house a new exhibition dedicated to the period, will elucidate the subject for participants. The course will conclude with a field trip to the Pearse Museum in St. Enda’s Park, Rathfarnham. The course tutor is Carole Holohan.
Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin 2. Wednesday mornings, 10am-12.30pm, 30 September – 18 November.
For more information about these courses, or to book, please contact UCD Adult Education at (01) 716 7123. Bookings will be taken from 10 August.
efarrelly April 29th, 2008
In collaboration with UCD School of Information & Library Studies (SILS), the Marine Institute is proposing to fund a qualified librarian to undertake a Masters degree by Research. The Marine Institute library aims to develop its e-resources as a primary means of information management and for enabling access to information in the most cost-effective manner. The research focus of the Masters fellow would be undertaken in the context of developing professional competencies and resources within a niche/marine research library environment and the development of appropriate knowledge management policies so as to optimise delivery of library services.
It is expected that this fellowship would be undertaken within a 3-year period, commencing as soon as possible.
For further details please contact Anne Wilkinson: anne.wilkinson@marine.ie
