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Bursary winners: Mona Power and Beth Tyrell
Congratulations to Mona Power from UCC Library and MLIS student Beth Tyrell from UCD iSchool who are this year’s conference bursary winners! Mona and Beth will attend #ASL2024 on Thursday 21st March free of charge and their conference reports will be available to read online in the weeks following the…
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Poster presenter spotlights: Maura Flynn and Celine Peignen, Genevieve Larkin & Anne Poénot and Colm O’Connor
We’re delighted to feature four poster presentations at #ASL2024. Get a snapshot of who are poster presenters are and what their presentations will be focusing on below. See our full speaker and poster presenter line-up at https://aslibraries.ie/keynote-speakers/. Maura Flynn and Celine Peignen Maura Flynn is the Open Educational Resources Librarian…
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UCD School of Information and Communication Studies: Drinks reception sponsor
Join us for a drinks reception after the conference on the 21st March, thanks to UCD iSchool. The UCD School of Information and Communication Studies strives to educate students to become leaders, policymakers, and designers of information services in the evolving information society. Their MLIS and GradDip programmes are structured…
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Presenter spotlights: Ann Byrne & Emberly Davey, Jane Buggle & Marie O’Neill and Catherine Ahearne
Ann Byrne and Emberly Davey Ann Byrne is the Digital librarian for Hibernia College and she has an interest and expertise in digital libraries, information literacy, open access, and academic writing and referencing. Emberly Davey is a Digital Library Assistant at Hibernia College who advocates for Universal Design for Learning…
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Speaker spotlights: Dean Watters & Ruth O’Hara, Eilís O’Neill and Paola Corti
Dean Watters and Ruth O’Hara Dean Watters from Griffith College and Ruth O’Hara collaborated on this important cataloguing project. They have a wealth of cataloguing experience between them as the head of cataloguing for Griffith College and Collections and Content Librarian in Maynooth University Library respectively. In this case study…
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Speaker spotlights: Laura Rooney Ferris and Trevor Boland
Laura Rooney Ferris We are delighted that former A&SL committee member Laura Rooney Ferris will be speaking at this year’s conference. Laura is currently working with the HSE’s Health Library Ireland (HLI) as Library Resources Manager with a remit for National Procurement and since 2015 she has produced and presented…
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Conference Sponsors
We’re delighted that EBSCO and Dublin Business School (DBS) are sponsoring #ASL2024! Take time during the conference to chat to the friendly EBSCO representatives about how their high-quality information resources and technology solutions can support your library. Stop by the DBS desk to learn about their range of full-time and…
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Student #ASL2024 tickets!
Are you a LIS student interested in attending #ASL2024 in Dublin on the 21st March? We have welcome news for your piggy banks as there are a limited number of €50 student tickets available. Book your student ticket today before they’re all snapped up! https://bit.ly/3IgNckd
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Bursary Awards
We are offering bursaries for this year’s A&SL conference which will allow two people to attend free of charge. The bursaries are available to LIS students and to those working in the library sector. To submit an application for the bursary, please send an email to aslsectionevents@gmail.com by 1st March describing in 200…
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Keynote David Hughes
We’re delighted to announce our second keynote speaker; David Hughes, who will discuss open scholarship in librarianship, and how fairer access models can reduce challenges from trends such as AI in his talk ‘Why do we need “Open”, anyway?’
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