LAI Cataloguing and Indexing Group - Annual Seminar and AGM

LAI Cataloguing and Indexing Group - Annual Seminar and AGM


“The Future of Cataloguing”


5 November 2009

Seminar Room of the National Library, Dublin.

Library of Congress Subject Headings with Keith Trickey

Library of Congress Subject Headings

CIG Cataloguing and Indexing Group - LAI Training Event

Instructor: Keith Trickey from Sherrington Sanders
Date: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Location: Seminar Room, National Library of Ireland
Cost: €140 (An invoice will be sent once you have signed up for the
course.)

Marsh's Library Exhibition

Beware the Jabberwock! an exhibition of books on the animal kingdom in Marsh’s Library was opened by Dr Martin Mansergh, T.D., Minister of State, on Tuesday June 30 2009.

The title comes from the nonsense poem about odd creatures in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The books have splendid woodcuts and engravings, There are books by famous 16th and 17th-century writers on natural history, covering exotic birds, butterflies and bees, elephants, horses, cats and tigers, reptiles and sea monsters. The exhibition includes many volumes by the Italian writer Ulisse Aldrovandi, whose magnificent work on natural history is regarded as the greatest zoological compendium of the early 17th century. The bird of paradise is shown in the massive encyclopaedia by the 16th-century Swiss writer Conrad Gesner. Other well known early writers on natural history on display in this exhibition are Thomas Moffett, the Comte de Buffon and Gulielmus Rondelet. Rondelet’s ‘Monkfish’ and ‘Bishopfish’ are both illustrated wearing their full clerical attire! Oliver Goldsmith’s Animated Nature is represented in the first Irish edition, published in Dublin in 1777.

The Exhibition is open to the public during the Library’s normal working Hours:

Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri.:
9.30–1.00 and 2.00–5.00;
Sat: 10.00–1.00. (Closed Tues. & Sun.)
It will continue until Spring 2010.

www.marshlibrary.ie

National Disability Authority Conference - Safe Evacuation for All

23rd September 2009
Santry


The National Disability Authority and the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) (Fire Risk Management Section) are hosting a one-day conference on “Safe Evacuation for All” at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Northwood, Santry on 23rd September, 2009. This event will provide practical advice on planning for the safe evacuation of all building users, including people with disabilities. There will be a number of interesting case studies showing how Irish organisations are dealing with evacuation planning. The conference fee (including lunch) will be €50 per person, with a concession rate of €40 for people with disabilities, staff of disability representative organisations and IOSH members.

The event will be of interest to:
Health and Safety advisers
Fire Officers
Engineers
Training consultants in areas such as fire safety health and safety
Architects
Human Resources managers
Disability service providers
Disability representative organisations
People with disabilities and their families.

Further details and booking forms will be published over the summer

Digital Humanities Observatory Conference

Digital Resources for the Humanities & Arts - Dynamic Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Contexts, Crises, Futures



7 - 9 September 2009

Queens University, Belfast




The DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference this year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks of knowledge and practice, new digital communities of knowledge and practice, engaging users and digitisation of cultural heritage.


The conference is hosted by Queen's University Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy and Swansea University in partnership with the National Library of Wales. It will take place from Monday 7th September to Wednesday 9th September 2009 with additional workshops being held on the preceding weekend. It will be held at QUB with its innovative spaces, fantastic architecture and state-of-the-art Sonic Laboratory.



http://dho.ie/drha2009/

Tour of the Chester Beatty

24th July 2009
Dublin

The Cataloguing and Indexing Group of the LAI are organising a visit to the Chester Beatty Library on Friday the 24th of July. The event is free and will consist of a guided tour by the Western Collection Curator, Mr. Charles Horton, of the two current exhibitions, Arts of the Book and Sacred Traditions, followed by an opportunity to meet with library staff in the reading room.

Time: 24th July 2009, 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Location: Chester Beatty Library

Please note that numbers are limited but registration is very easy. Just go to the website below and click on “Create new Attendance”:
http://www.supersaas.com/schedule/LAICIG/Chester_Beatty

Critical Appraisal Skills Course

21st August 2009
Dublin

The CPD working group of the HSLG are holding the course “Critical Appraisal Skills” which will take place on Friday, 21st August 2009 in the Health Research Board, 42– 47 Knockmaun House, Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2. To apply for a place on this course, please contact the course administrator, Anne Madden at anne.madden@ucd.ie

Places are limited so you are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.

Further information and booking form here

Course Details

Course Code: CPD0902

Title: Critical Appraisal Skills

Venue: Health Research Board, 42-47 Knockmaun House, Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2

Date: Friday, 21st August 2009

Time: 10am – 4pm

Cost: Standard rate - 250 Euro
LAI/HSLG members 225 Euro
Student /Unemployed rate – 100 Euro

LAI Academic & Special Library Section AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Academic & Special Library Section of the LAI will take place on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 6.30 pm in the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

The Guest Speaker is Cathal McCauley, University Librarian, NUI Maynooth. The A&SL Committee will host a Reception at 6pm.

Please RSVP Erin O'Mahony (Secretary) by Friday, 12 June 2009.
E-mail: erin.omahony@oireachtas.ie

ANLTC Web Development Toolkit

Friday 24th April 2009 at the
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Library, Aungier Street, Dublin 2

The course is directed at library staff involved in editing and maintaining library web pages.

Library Web pages present an image of the library and provide valuable information to your users. If you have responsibility for maintaining Library web pages such as websites, subject pages, WebOPACs, blogs, wikis etc. and would benefit from useful tools to help you improve them, then this course is for you. The course will give you the skills to use freely available web based tools which will help you to enhance and develop your web presence.
The course will include hands on practical exercises. Topics to be covered
include: an overview of managing web pages, the top 10 dos and don’ts, practical tips on fonts, colours, separating design and content, using images and getting your pages noticed and used.

The second part of the course will involve practical hands on sessions on Web Development Toolkit which will utilize some of the Firefox suite of extensions for Web Development. Finally the course will include a short session on using Google Analytics on your web pages to gather usage statistics. Course notes and documentation will be distributed on the day.

The course is presented by Neil Andrews, Head of Department, School of Hospitality, DIT, Cathal Brugha St. Dublin 1; Katherine Kenny, Acting Web Administrator, DIT, Aungier St, Dublin 2; Fiachra Mangan, Library Services, DIT, Aungier St, Dublin 2.

The course outline can be viewed at http://www.anltc.ie/anltc200905prog.htm and the application form at http://www.anltc.ie/application200905.htm

Note: Numbers are limited on this course. Closing date for registration is Thursday 2nd April 2009 - so get your application in now so you won't be disappointed. Get approval from your line manager before sending me your application via email.

Seminar on Local History Publishing

Thursday 26th March 2009
National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

The Genealogy and Local Studies (GENLOC) Group in association with the National Library of Ireland presents a daylong seminar on local history publishing in Ireland. The seminar fee is €40. If you wish to reserve a place, please contact Síle Coleman at scoleman@sdublincoco.ie or 01 4620073.

LIR Annual Seminar

“Scholarly communication and the open distribution of knowledge"

The 2009 LIR Annual seminar will take place in Liberty Hall, Dublin on Friday 27th March 2009

The LIR seminar this year will be exploring the area of scholarly communication.  We intend to look at what is actually ‘free’ and how/if open source technology, enables us to deliver for free or at low cost, and if indeed this is a good and sustainable thing.  We have confirmed a number of speakers including Debby Shorley, Imperial College London, http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.shorley, David Prosser, Director SPARC Europe, http://www.sparceurope.org/about-us and Fred Friend, JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/committees/workinggroups/scholarlycomms.aspx.  As always a major emphasis at the seminar will be on developments in Irish libraries. Suggested areas for discussion are:  

·         Scholarly publication/communication models within your organisation.

·         Cheap or free sources employed in your organisation to share 'the knowledge'.

·         Experiences using/promoting the Institutional Repository/free sources that may be used to distribute knowledge.

·         How this has changed the role of the librarian.

Further information from http://lirgroup.heanet.ie/

Cataloguing and Indexing Group - Lecture

The Cataloguing and Indexing Group of the LAI are delighted to launch the start of their 2009 activities with an informal evening event on Monday the 23rd of March.  Dot Porter, the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory will be giving a short talk on the DHO, metadata, and possibilities for digital collaboration in Ireland.  This will be followed by the chance to meet others over nibbles.

Time:  Monday 23rd March 2009, 5.30pm - 8.30 pm

Location: Meeting and Council Rooms at the Royal Irish Academy

Map:  http://www.ria.ie/about/location.html

 

Please contact Claire Bell (Secretary – Cataloguing and Indexing Group) at claire.bell@ul.ie to let us know you are coming.

Designing a training course

Mar-09

HSLG

Designing a training course

Ireland

Introduction to writing for academic publication

26/2/09

ANLTC

Introduction to writing for academic publication


Maynooth

SCONUL Events

SCONUL

Full list of international and online library related events

Academic Writing - ANLTC

Academic Writing

Thursday 26th February 2009

ANLTC
NUI, Maynooth

LAI Informal Networking Evening

Wednesday, 10th December @ 6pmThe Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2

The Joint Committees of the A&SL Section and HSLG are holding the next event in the series of Informal Networking Evenings, a Joint Christmas Networking Evening to be held in the Royal Irish Academy on Wednesday, 10th December 2008. 

The theme for this year’s event is ‘Commemorating the LAI’s 80th Anniversary:  Celebrating Librarians Past, Present and  Future’.  The Joint Committees will host a Drinks Reception from 6pm.  Beatrice Doran (past-president of the LAI and formerly Librarian of the RCSI) has kindly accepted our invitation to speak on this year’s theme at 6.30pm. 

The aim of our Informal Networking Evenings is to provide members with the opportunity to meet other librarians and information professionals, and to share news, views and experiences.

RSVP by Wednesday 3rd December to Seán Hughes at:  aandsl.hslg@gmail.com 

Effective coaching and mentoring techniques

10 December 2008
Kilmainham
HSLG

Further information here

Sources for MARC records and authority control

17/11/08

LAI - CIG

Sources for MARC records and authority control

TBA

Introduction to MARC 21

3/12/08 & 4/12/08

Library Council

Introduction to MARC 21

Dublin