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.

Academic Writing - ANLTC

Academic Writing

Thursday 26th February 2009

ANLTC
NUI, Maynooth

Digits and Dreams: Scholarship and Computing in the Age of Abundance

"Digits and Dreams: Scholarship and Computing in the Age of Abundance"

Amy Friedlander, director of programmes at the American Council on Library and Information Resources, will give a free lecture.

Tuesday, September 23rd at 4 pm

Royal Irish Academy,
19 Dawson Street, Dublin.

Conference Reports for An Leabharlann

The LAI are looking for volunteers from attendees of the the Internet Librarian Conference in London in October or the Information Online Conference in London in December to write a conference report for inclusion in the Spring 2009 issue of An Leabharlann.

Please contact:
Marjory Sliney, Editor, An Leabharlann: the Irish Library LAI Executive Board and Secretary of the Education Committee
Email

Fagel Symposium Lecture

On Thursday, 4th September, Peter Fox, The Librarian, Cambridge University, will present a lecture on ‘The Fagel Collection: Den Haag to Dublin.’ The lecture will begin at 7 pm in the Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. The lecture forms part of the Fagel Symposium which will take place in Trinity College Dublin from 4-6 September. Further details of the Symposium are available at www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/fagel.

EAHIL Workshop Dublin 2009 - Call for papers and posters

The European Association for Health Information and Libraries International Programme Committee invites you to submit papers and posters for the Workshop entitled “Working with others: explore, engage, extend” to be held in Dublin, Ireland , 2nd to 5th June 2009.

Research papers, reports of innovative practice and cases are invited which discuss these and related topics:

• Collaborations and partnerships with specific groups and communities
In education, learning and curriculum support
In clinical and allied health practice
In research
In healthcare, patient education and outreach
In special interest groups or networks

• Cooperation in services & resource sharing
Issues in liaison, partnerships and outreach programmes Coordination in information and knowledge management Regional, national, international co-operation

• Collaboration and communication in virtual and emerging spaces
Facilitating online collaboration and interaction E-science and distributed collaboration networks Tools, techniques, technologies including Web 2.0

• Information gathering, analysis, evidence and response
Assessing needs and evidence
Healthcare informatics
Customization and localization of information services

Full details are avialable from the workshop website and abstracts may be submitted no later than 17th of October.

Introduction to writing for academic publication

7th May 2008

ANLTC
Introduction to writing for academic publication

Maynooth