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Teenage Kicks now better value!
Every cloud has a silver lining… The Public Libraries’ Section is delighted to announce that in the light of our recessionary times we’ve negotiated lower accommodation rates with the Heritage Hotel for the Public Libraries’ Section Annual Conference.
All rates have been reduced with the all-in-rate (accommodation plus meals) coming down from €355 to €310 for a single room and from €295 to €250 sharing. Wednesday-night-only and Thursday-night-only rates have also been reduced. We are delighted to be able to pass on these discounts to conference delegates. Don’t worry if you have already booked, as you will be invoiced automatically for the reduced rate.
The Programme and revised Booking Form for Teenage Kicks is available here.
We have a great line-up for this year’s conference, including authors Claire Hennessy and Oisín McGann, television psychologist and author David Coleman, and sessions on Cork City Library’s Teen Survey, the Junior Certificate Support Programme’s Demonstration Library Project, and Dublin City’s Teen Zones Project. We’ll have a quickfire session in which four library services will tell us about their projects or initiatives aimed at teenagers. We are delighted to announce that our after dinner speaker on Thursday 6th November will be John McNamee of Easons, President of the European Booksellers’ Federation. There will also be the opportunity for delegates to visit two new state of the art Laois County Libraries, Mountrath and Abbeyleix, on Thursday afternoon.
It will be a jam-packed and exciting Conference this year, we look forward to seeing you there!
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Organisers of the upcoming Public Libraries Section Annual Conference, 5th-7th November 2008, have announced that Irish authors Oisin McGann and Claire Hennessy have been added to this year’s programme. Young adult fiction authors, they will be joining child psychologist, television presenter and author David Coleman to speak on the conference’s theme Library Services to Teenagers.
Further information is available from Melanie Cunningham, publiclibraries@libraryassociation.ie.
The Public Libraries’ Section Annual Conference 2008 will take place from 5th to 7th November at the Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise . The conference theme is ‘Library Services to Teenagers’ and among the confirmed speakers is psychologist, television presenter and author, David Coleman.
This year’s programme will include a quickfire session, where library services will be offered 10-15 minute slots to talk about their own innovative services to teenagers.
More news on the conference will be available soon, but in the meantime further information is available from Melanie Cunningham who can be contacted at the following email address publiclibraries@libraryassociation.ie.