April 2011 #311


In this Issue…

Seachtain na Gaeilge at Cork City Library

Seachtain na Gaeilge got off to a wonderful start on March 2 at Cork City Library with the launch of a bilingual…Read More

Readiscovering Cork County Libraries

Cork County Library is always looking for new ways to tell people about our services, to encourage them to use their…Read More

Cobh Library hosts photographic exhibition

Cobh Library was the venue for the recent launch of an important photographic archive of civic, religious cultural and…Read More

Dublin: One City, One Book 2011

The Dublin: One City, One Book choice for April 2011 is Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor.The chosen title will be supported by…Read More

Dublin City’s Central Library receives a Star Award

The Open Learning Centre at Dublin City’s Central library was a winner at The Star Awards 2011 in the category “Learning for Work”…Read More

Libraries without walls

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Library (DLR) users have welcomed the addition of a brand-new online language learning system, called Byki…Read More

Two Books One Ballyfermot

Given the success of the One Book One City initiative run by the Dublin City Public Libraries, a similar initiative has…Read More

Kerry students predict what’s new in the EU in 2050?

The EU will have a new president called Camelia Nica from Romania and will be part of a new world union. We will be driving Audi R8’s…Read More

Laois County Libraries launch Bibliotherapy

Laois County Libraries have launched its Bibliotherapy scheme entitled Mind and Body Book Therapy. This is an initiative between the HSE…Read More

Library Ireland Week at Mountmellick Library

Mountmellick library hosted a fantastic array of events to celebrate Library Ireland Week including a music & movies quiz for teenagers, crafts…Read More

Portlaoise Library celebrates Seachtain na Gaeilge

Portlaoise Library held a number of events for an Irish themed night to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge on March 9 2011 with a large …Read More

Leitrim County Library’s Winter Lecture Programme

The Winter Lecture Programme held by Leitrim County Library aims to provide a series of lectures to adults over the winter months…Read More

Louth County Library receives donation of Dundalk IT’s Theatre Archive

Louth County Library and Archive Service is delighted to announce the donation of an important collection of archives relating to local theatre…Read More

Landmark Nature Project at Ardee Branch Library

Louth County Libraries, Ardee Branch Library and Create Louth (Louth County Arts Office) are working together on a project called…Read More

News from the library at NUI Maynooth

The Library at the National University of Ireland Maynooth exhibited seminal works of renowned Irish lexicographer…Read More

Stewart’s Hospital Library welcomes the National Gallery of Ireland

A wonderful series of talks by The National Gallery of Ireland took place over the past few weeks at Stewarts Hospital…Read More

Whitechurch Library celebrates its’ centenary

Sets of best china appeared from houses all over the Whitechurch area of South Dublin for the Quilting Bee community event to…Read More

Tipperary Libraries launch ReadABLE

Tipperary Libraries have launched new assistive reading technologies which are now available free of charge in libraries…Read More

Wexford’s Oral History Programme

Wexford Life-Stories went live on the World Wide Web on March 7 2011 when over 130 podcasts were made available. Material can be…Read More