December 2010 #308


In this Issue…

Clare Library wins major award for genealogy

At its 2010 AGM the Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations (CIGO) announced that Clare County Library would be the recipient of…Read More

Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Awards 2010

Fingal won County Council of the Year, Galway Libraries was awarded Best Library Service & Kildare won Award for Sustaining the Arts….Read More

Wainfest in Donegal 2010

This year’s Wainfest, County Donegal’s largest arts and books festival for children & young people, celebrated its fourteenth year…Read More

Fingal Volunteer Wins Silver Surfer Award

Fingal Libraries would like to congratulate Dick Brennan, who won the Age Action 3 Silver Surfer Award 2010 in the category of IT…Read More

Kilkenny Carnegie Library centenary celebrations

Kilkenny Carnegie Library celebrated 100 years of providing community access to reading, cultural and learning resources. To mark…Read More

Over 1500 books read by children in County Kilkenny

Kilkenny Library Service’s summer reading challenge for children came to an exciting finale in the Newpark Hotel on 11th October…Read More

Space Encounters in Kilkenny

“Wednesday November 10th brought great excitement to Presentation Convent, Loughboy, Kilkenny, with the arrival of the Space…Read More

Flips, but no flops, at Limerick City Library

For over 10 years or so, Limerick City Library has hosted an extensive program of Evening Lectures, entitled the Evening Lecture Series…Read More

Dundalk Public Library Wins Access Award

Dundalk Library recently won an award for best practice in accessible service provision in the category of Public Building. These…Read More

Library Services – so what?

Annual seminar of the Academic & Special Libraries Section of the Library Association of Ireland, Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Golden Lane…Read More

Hidden Heritage Project @ Monaghan County Libraries.

Monaghan County Libraries have been working in tandem with the County Museum to roll out a major project over the last 14 months. The…Read More

New initiative aims to break down barriers to education.

Details of a new distance education course, aimed at unemployed people with low or no qualifications was launched today by the …Read More

NLI and TCD to collaborate in unique cultural project

The Director of the National Library of Ireland, Fiona Ross, and the Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Dr John Hegarty, have announced…Read More

TEDxTallaght…

An inspiring, thought-provoking, and entertaining evening for the first TEDx event in Tallaght.South Dublin County Libraries were…Read More

South Dublin County Libraries’ Annual Readers Day

South Dublin Libraries celebrated another successful Readers Day at the Maldron Hotel, Tallaght on Saturday 13th November. This…Read More

Literature to Life Project 2010

This year for Children’s Book Festival, South Dublin Libraries held a series of 4 innovative workshops in the following libraries…Read More

A Political Directory of County Tipperary 1918-2010

The very well attended launch of William Corbett’s A Political Directory of County Tipperary 1918-2010: Parliamentary Election Results…Read More

‘DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN’

Whilst researching for the next lecture in his successful series of Lectures in Legal Bibliography, Dublin solicitor librarian, Hugh…Read MoreIrish College, Paris

Read about their digitized historical archives and the two fellowship bursaries being offered at the Old Library and Historical Archives… …Read More

Library ITT Dublin goes Mobile!!!

Library ITT Dublin has launched its new mobile device friendly library catalogue using the Library Anywhere service from Library Thing…Read More