News and Announcements

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

  • Join ASL AGM 2025 for ‘Cooking the Books’ talk on NLI recipe collections

    Join ASL AGM 2025 for ‘Cooking the Books’ talk on NLI recipe collections

    Join us online on February 5th at 7 pm for our AGM, and to hear Nora Thornton and Joanne Carroll from @nationallibraryofireland give their wonderful talk “Cooking the Books” that showcases recipe books from the special collections, and how the idea for the talk came about. It promises to be delicious! Register now #ASLAGM2025 Read more

  • ASL2025 Save the Date!

    ASL2025 Save the Date!

    Save The Date! We’re delighted to announce that the Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference will take place on Thursday 27th March 2025 in @MoLI_Museum! The #ASL2025 conference theme and the call for submissions will be coming soon. Read more

  • Summer ASL & HSLG Social and Networking Evening

    Summer ASL & HSLG Social and Networking Evening

    Join us for our next event in the Royal Irish Academy with Deirdre Madden, Assistive Technology Outreach Co-ordinator, Disability Support Service, at University College Cork. This is a free event, which will take place at 6.30pm on June 17 in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street. Deirdre has worked in the disability and education field for over… Read more

  • Conference checklist

    Conference checklist

    Only two days to go until #ASL2024 is finally here – we cannot WAIT to meet you all in the Ashling Hotel on Thursday! We’ve put a handy conference checklist together for the day so you don’t miss a thing, more info at https://aslibraries.ie Read more

  • Bursary winners: Mona Power and Beth Tyrell

    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 day itself. Thanks to everyone… Read more

  • 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