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Ruth O’Hara
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An important OA update📢 For more, visit the link in our bio and click 'IReL News'🔎📚 #MUOpenAccess #MULibrary
January 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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If you’re not doing anything at 8.40, you should join a chunk of Irish people as we watch the solstice online.

RTÉ radio news just made a point of saying that there is no cloud cover over Newgrange today.

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bikesnbukes.bsky.social Oisín Murphy-Lawless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · Dec 21
8 hours twenty minutes to go before #newgrangesolstice 2025, folks!

The good doctors Clare and Frank will be back again to accompany the winter light slowly illuminating Newgrange’s burial chamber.

Go here for details of where you can watch. www.gov.ie/en/office-of...
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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LAI CMG members, we are conducting a short survey to help us identify the current cataloguing training needs of our members. Please check your email and let us know the areas that you might like initial, or further training in. #cataloguing #training @laibluesky.bsky.social
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December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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For those publishing under our Open Access deals, here is the latest quota update⚠️Open the Linktree in our bio to see our guide on OA Publishing and reach out to us if you have any queries 🔓 #MULibrary
September 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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⚠️OPEN ACCESS QUOTA UPDATE ⚠️ ScienceDirect tokens are projected to run out in mid-September. For more information contact: [email protected]
#openaccess #TAQUOTA #MULibrary
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the Roman Empire. The Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles. Do you think individual Romans understood that their civilization was collapsing? Or did it happen so gradually that they were able to ignore the warning signs—international trade breaking down, the senate becoming a rubber stamp for the supreme leader, and political violence becoming expected during transfers of power? It’s hard to say, because it’s impossible to imagine being in that kind of situation. In any event—hope you enjoy the candle!
August 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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For those publishing under our Open Access deals, here is the latest quota update⚠️ Scan the QR code to see our guide on OA Publishing and reach out to us if you have any queries 🔓 #MULibrary #OAPublishing
July 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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OCLC explains the lay offs, "Artificial Intelligence and other technology changes require different skills and provide opportunity for efficiencies..." 📚
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Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A Dublin-based organization that manages the Dewey Decimal System and partners with libraries worldwide has laid off dozens of central Ohio employees, citing the rise of…
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July 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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📣Save the date! Registration is now open for the LAI CMG Cataloguing Code of Ethics online workshop, delivered by Jane Daniels on 12th June. Registration is essential and free but limited. Further information and eventbrite link available here: bit.ly/3ZRU80v
#code_of_ethics #cataloguing
Using the Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021
Introduction to the Code of Ethics and how it can be used to review cataloguing policies and practices
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June 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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It's the big day - #CONUL25 is here! If you can't make it, don't worry as we are livestreaming throughout the conference on our website. Follow the link to Livestream from our website: conference.conul.ie/livestream/
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May 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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In an age where belonging can’t be assumed, our #libraries can quietly but powerfully remind every learner that they matter, that they’re welcome, and that knowledge is for them. The library is uniquely positioned to bravely, radically hold that space.
How to put joy at the centre of the university library
The role of the university library is poised re-evaluation – not just as an academic hub but as a space where connection, belonging and access can come alive in everyday ways. Pro tip: cake and dogs h...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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A beautiful morning in Celbridge for this years #darknessintolight
May 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Interested in historical pamphlets? Have a 👀 at this blog post on some of the fascinating collection at the Russell Library #Maynooth mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/e...

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Pamphlet on Napoleon Bonapart’s carriage Pamphlet on the Irish Famine Display of historical pamphlets
May 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Excited to attend The Brilliance of the Young Mind TEDx event by Clonturk CC students at DCU St Patrick’s Campus on Tue, May 13.Topics include the mind, iPads in learning, STEM imbalance & more. Event details & tickets: .https://sites.google.com/view/tedxclonturk-cc-youth/home?authuser=0 #edchatie
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Theme: The Brilliance of the Young Mind
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May 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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CONUL Regulatory Affairs (featuring our Associate Director, Special Collections & Archives, David Meehan) has just published a timely and comprehensive paper on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on HE, research and libraries. bit.ly/4cY0dhm
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May 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...
Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...
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April 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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A long-running and divisive stand-off at a heritage site in Co Kildare could be closer to resolution after the OPW announced its staff would return to work at Castletown House in Celbridge
Resolution to Castletown House dispute in site
A long-running and divisive stand-off at a heritage site in Co Kildare could be closer to resolution after the Office of Public Works announced its staff would return to work at Castletown House in Ce...
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April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Claire Mason @mulibrary.bsky.social investigates how academic libraries are supporting student wellbeing in Ireland at #ASL2025
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March 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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One day to go to our AGM with keynote by Jane Daniels. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the NLI at 5.30.
Walk-ins welcome.
February 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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"Library Database Providers Clash Over Subscription Models" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Library Database Providers Clash Over Subscription Models
Global information services provider Clarivate, which owns data and analytics resource ProQuest, announced it will “phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print, and digital bo...
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February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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For our first skeet the LAI CMG are delighted to announce details of our AGM in the NLI preceded by a keynote by Jane Daniels on the topic of the work of the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee. Tickets are free and available on eventbrite: bit.ly/4aXLRMN
#ethics #cataloguing
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February 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
rohara.bsky.social
Haven’t checked the other place in days! Have got my news, history and politics fix here with the added bonus of lots of Irish heads whose posts actually appear on my feed. Deadly 😊
November 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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"Some librarians also reported being afraid to walk to their cars after work, especially if it was dark."
How it's going in Irish libraries that have LGBTQIA+ books or events.
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Harassed and called paedophiles: Librarians describe being targeted by anti-LGBT+ groups
Some librarians fear being physically attacked, according to new research.
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November 12, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Day one on BlueSky. Nice people, good atmosphere and Satan is one of my first followers 😂
October 19, 2023 at 7:07 PM