July 2011 #314

Clare County Library celebrated National Carers Week

The 5th annual National Carers Week took place from 13-19 June 2011. Clare County Library partnered with Caring for Carers, the Clare…Read More

Senior & Junior Sit & Knit Together a huge success in Clare Co. Library

During the recent Bealtaine Festival Clare County Library ran a number of sessions entitled Senior & Junior Sit & Knit Together in…Read More

Librarians Visit from Åland Islands

A group of 23 Åland Islanders – librarians and spouses – visited Ireland in June 2011, and on 11 June they spent an afternoon in…Read More

Libraries host ‘Cork a Healthy City’ initiative

The World Health Organization European Healthy Cities programme was established in 1986. Cork has applied for Healthy City…Read More

Gaeltacht Book Club attends the Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Awards

This year again, Ballyvourney Library Teen Book club were thrilled to be chosen as one of the 10 junior juries to read…Read More

Fenians book launch in Kerry

The book The Fenians were dreadful men by Ballylongford historian Pádarig Ó Concubhair was launched before a large attendance in the…Read More

Kilkenny Libraries

Read about Kilkenny book and Barack Obama, Mental Health Information Day and A Weekend to Write About!…Read More

Leitrim Libraries launch Kurdish Book Collection

The Kurdish community have been living in Carrick on Shannon since 2006. Books in the Kurdish language are difficult to purchase…Read More

Check Mate!

Meath County Council Library Service’s Summer Programme features chess tournaments in Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne Libraries…Read More

TeachMeet

The first Irish TeachMeet group got together in Limerick on 31 May with library staff from a number of Academic Libraries…Read More

New Mobile Libraries

Thoroughly Modern Mobile for Limerick County and Kilkenny County Libraries launches the mobile library on the road…Read More

NUI Maynooth Library receives important donation

The Library of NUI Maynooth has received an important donation of papers by the Irish dramatist, Teresa Deevy…Read More

Looking at Tallaght through Maths Eyes

Looking at Tallaght through Maths Eyes was a community initiative led by South Dublin Libraries and…Read More

Tipperary Libraries

Read about Tipperary Reads Festival 2011, Children’s Summer Book Bus & Bulgarian Ambassador visits Thurles…Read More

Globetrotting Library Books…

Read about Tipperary Books Going Far and Summer Reads at South Dublin Libraries…Read More

Wexford County Library

Gorey library was launched formally by Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan…Read More

COLICO Sponsors Delegate to International Music Conference

COLICO, the cross-border and cross-sectoral committee on library co-operation in Ireland, provided sponsorship for…Read More

The Centre for Effective Services.

The Centre for Effective Service (CES), an independent, not for profit body, was established in 2008 and is part…Read More