News and Announcements

Keep an eye on this page for all the latest news on the activities of the A&SL committee.

  • Poster presenter spotlights: Maura Flynn and Celine Peignen, Genevieve Larkin & Anne Poénot and Colm O’Connor

    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 at the Technological University of Read more

  • UCD School of Information and Communication Studies: Drinks reception sponsor

    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 for attaining a professional degree Read more

  • Presenter spotlights: Ann Byrne & Emberly Davey, Jane Buggle & Marie O’Neill and Catherine Ahearne

    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 (UDL) and Open Access. In Read more

  • Speaker spotlights: Dean Watters & Ruth O’Hara, Eilís O’Neill and Paola Corti

    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 ‘Diversifying Dewey: Changing the DDC23 Read more

  • Speaker spotlights: Laura Rooney Ferris and Trevor Boland

    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 the podcast series ‘Librarians Aloud!’ Read more

  • Conference Sponsors

    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 part-time undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and Read more