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LAI AGM 2024 and Nomination Forms

Dear Members, Please be notified that the AGM of the Library Association of Ireland will take place in person on Thursday 2nd May 2024 at 10.30am at a location yet to be determined. Motions for the AGM must be submitted to the Honorary Secretary at the address below, or by email to honsecretary@libraryassociation.ie no later...
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15
Mar

Youth Libraries Group Seminar Series 2024

Recommending With Confidence Seminar Series 2024 Our online seminar series is back for 2024 and is now open for booking. Each session runs from 9:30 – 10:30 am March 6th Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) March 13th Irish in the Library March 20th Schools and engaging teenagers March 27th Reader development Booking is now open through...
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CILIP Ireland/LAI Joint Annual Conference 2024

The CILIP Ireland/LAI Joint Annual Conference 2024 will take place on 24 and 25 April 2024 at the Canal Court Hotel, Newry, Co. Down. The Conference will address the theme ‘Building for the Future’. The programme of inspirational library and information professionals and cross-sectoral updates on best practice will engage and challenge us to be...
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15
Mar

CONUL Conference 2024

The CONUL Annual Conference is confirmed for May 29-30 2024 in the ICC Belfast. The 2024 conference theme is ‘Libraries as Changemakers’. A changemaker is someone who is taking creative action to solve a social problem. Changemaking involves empathy, thoughtfulness, creativity, taking action and collaborative leadership. Registration is now open See the Conference Website  
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15
Mar

UCC Library Seminar 2024

Libraries: Connecting Minds and Cultivating Wellness Date: 11th of April 2024 Venue: Creative Zone, Boole Library, University College Cork This event will explore the role libraries play in promoting and supporting well-being and engagement. There will be a range of speakers on the day, who will offer perspectives from a library viewpoint, and also from the...
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14
Mar

QQI has launched a public consultation on the White Paper on Academic Integrity

A legislative amendment introduced through the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019 created new offences related to the facilitation of cheating, the advertisement of cheating services, and the publication of such advertisements. QQI is identified as prosecutor of these offences. The white paper sets out QQI’s intended approach to implementing the...
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14
Mar

Capacity Building Webinar Series: Basic Building Blocks of Librarianship

(Funded by the American Library Association International Relations Round Table (IRRT) Mission Enhancement Grant 2023)  The ALA IRRT Webinar Committee in association with the American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Round Table (IRRT) Mission Enhancement Project presents a series of FIVE (5) webinars to support capacity building of library employees (non-professionals). Duration of webinar: Two-hours (2)...
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14
Mar

Unshelving Voices: Empowering Libraries Against Censorship

Two-Day Symposium on Library Censorship sponsored by  IFLA LGBTQ+ Special Interest Group The Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Co sponsors: School Library Section Management of Library Associations (MLAS)Mexico City 6 to 7 August 2024 INFOThe IFLA LGBTQ+ Special Interest Group, the Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access...
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14
Mar

Registration now open for the IFLA Information Futures Summit!

The Information Futures Summit is a new event format for IFLA, focused on bringing the energy, expertise and rich diversity of our field together to find solutions to the information challenges facing us today and in the coming years. You will have the opportunity to join the discussion with professionals and thought leaders from around...
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13
Mar

Call for Papers for the IFLA Division D Midterm Meeting in Istanbul.

IFLA Division D is holding a Midterm Meeting in Istanbul from 5th – 7th June on the theme Libraries Bridging Boundaries: Challenges and Strategies for Global Openness. The programme is being jointly organised by IFLA Academic Research Libraries Section<https://www.ifla.org/units/academic-and-research-libraries/>, IFLA Acquisitions and Collection Development Section<https://www.ifla.org/units/acquisition-collection-development/>, IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group<https://www.ifla.org/units/library-publishing/>, and IFLA Science and...
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13
Mar

UCC Library Launches New Vision and 5 Year Plan

UCC Library is excited to launch the Library’s new Vision and Plan 2024-2028, available to download in both English and as Gaeilge on the Library’s website. This new Vision and Plan will guide the Library’s growth and transformation over the next five years, responding to and supporting the aspirations of the University’s Strategic Plan: Securing Our...
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02
Mar

A&SL Conference 2024 Fair for All: Creating Equitable and Universal Access to Information

Registration for the LAI Academic & Special Libraries Conference, taking place at the Ashling Hotel Dublin, on the 21st March is now open at https://aslibraries.ie/conference/ The conference “Fair for All: Creating Equitable and Universal Access to Information” promises to be a day of great papers, speakers and exchange of ideas. We hope to see you there.
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21
Feb

Bursary Awards for Academic & Special Libraries Conference

The A&SL committee  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 words or...
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13
Feb

CILIP Ireland / LAI Joint Conference 2024 Registration open

CILIP Ireland / LAI Joint Conference 2024: Building For the Future : With the theme of “Building for the Future” we have assembled a powerful line-up of speakers from across Ireland and the UK. We’ll be hearing from speakers on what decolonisation can look like in Ireland, North and South, learning how to develop futures...
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11
Feb

MoLI’s Edna O’Brien Young Writers Award 2024

Museum of Literature Ireland is now accepting applications from young writers aged 15 – 17 years for the Edna O’Brien Young Writers Award 2024. By applying, you will be in with a chance to secure a FREE place on a five-day creative writing retreat during the summer in Dublin, from 8 – 12 July 2024,...
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08
Feb

CONUL Conference 2024 – Bursary Opportunites

We are delighted to announce that there will be three bursaries to attend CONUL Conference 2024: a LIS Student bursary; a recent LIS Graduate bursary; and a bursary for someone working in the library sector who does not hold a LIS qualification, sponsored by UCD School of Information & Communication Studies (ICS). Applications open on...
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30
Jan

Health Sciences Libraries Group Annual Conference 2024

Registration is now open for the HSLG’s Annual Conference which takes place on Thursday 7th March in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin. Our theme for 2024 is “Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”. There’s always something that can potentially disrupt our professional work (remember search engines were meant to herald our doom?). We’ve managed to...
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29
Jan

HER-ald: HER archives, literature, documents – A Seminar at the Library of the Royal Irish Academy

Last December the Library of the Royal Irish Academy was delighted to bring together archivists, librarians, researchers and creatives for a one-day seminar which aimed to enhance the visibility of Irish women in archival collections. The seminar was divided into three sessions: Custodians, Consultants and Creatives. See more at the Rare Books Group blog.
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21
Jan

A&SL AGM 2024 – Register now!

Join the Academic & Special Libraries (A&SL) Committee at their 2024 AGM, an online event starting on January 23rd at 7:00 PM The 2024 AGM will outline recent and forthcoming activities of the A&SL section including our annual conference which returns in March 2024! Laura Ryan, Assistant Librarian in Special Collections & Archives at Dublin City...
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19
Jan

Nominations are now open for the LAI President’s medal

Nominations are now open for The Library Association of Ireland  LAI President’s medal. This award is to celebrate an individual who, while not directly working in libraries, has an exceptional track record of promoting libraries and/or issues of interest or concern to libraries. Nominations close on midnight 16th February 2024. More information about the nomination...
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GDPR

  • Library Association Of Ireland: Privacy Statement
  • Collection of your personal information
  • How we use your Personal Information
  • Security of your personal information
  • Third party services
  • Updating your personal information
  • Website visitors
  • Use of Cookies
  • Changes to this statement
  • Contact Information

Library Association Of Ireland: Privacy Statement

Introduction
The Library Association of Ireland (LAI) is committed to protecting your privacy. The information you share with us means you will be able to use the services we offer. We only collect the information that is necessary to carry out our business, provide the particular service you have requested and to keep you informed. Our privacy policy gives you details on when and why we collect your personal data and how we use it.

Collection of your personal information

The amount and type of information we collect from you depends on the nature of the interaction you have with us. For example, we ask members who wish to join to complete an application form. In each case, we only gather as much information as is necessary to fulfil the service request. But in general we collect the following personal information:

  • contact information including: home or work address, telephone number, qualifications and email address
  • affiliation and role
  • bank details if appropriate.

Information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by the LAI. This information can include your: IP address; browser type; domain name; access times; and referring website addresses.

 

How we use your Personal Information

The information we collect and hold on you will be used in a number of ways, including:

  • to fulfil membership requests
  • to fulfil bookings for attendance at events
  • provision of a LAI service,
  • provision of information to inform you of other products or services available from LAI and its affiliates
  • process payments, e.g. fees for attendance at events, payment of invoices, etc.
  • to facilitate discussion and sharing of knowledge through discussion lists and events
  • to contact you to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered
  • when you use the LAI website.

The LAI will keep your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice and to fulfil our legal obligations. We will not keep more information than we need. The retention period will vary according to the purpose the data is collated.

The LAI does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The LAI may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.  In addition, the LAI may share data with trusted partners to help us process payments, perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, member services or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the LAI, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The LAI will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the LAI or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the LAI; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of members of the LAI, or the public.

Security of your personal information

The LAI discloses personally-identifying information to its management committee, contractors and affiliates in order to provide services available from the LAI. Payment processing is an example of this. They will not use your data for anything other than the clearly defined purpose relating to the service that they are providing.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through LAI public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: the LAI does not read any of your private online communications.

The LAI secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. The LAI secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, and security protocols.

Third party services

The LAI utilises third party services to assist in the delivery of some of our services, e.g. Eventbrite. When you interact with these sites you may provide information about yourself to those third parties. The LAI is not responsible for how they collect, use and share your information. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of the websites you choose to link to from the LAI, so that you can understand how these websites collect, use and share your information.

Updating your personal information

The LAI will endeavour to ensure the data we hold on you is correct and up-to-date. If you wish us to amend or remove the personal information we hold on you, please contact us by email honsec@libraryassociation.ie or write to Library Association of Ireland, c/o 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.We will correct any inaccuracies or remove you from our databases as soon as practicable.

Website visitors

Like most websites, the LAI collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. We do this to maintain the quality of the service, to determine what LAI services are the most popular and to provide general statistics regarding use of the LAI website. The data may be gathered from our website hosts and Google Analytics.

 

Use of Cookies

The LAI website uses ‘cookies’ to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise LAI pages, or register with the LAI site or services, a cookie helps the LAI to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same LAI website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the LAI features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the LAI services or websites you visit.

Changes to this statement

The LAI will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect user feedback. The LAI encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how the LAI is protecting your information.

This statement was last updated on 20th June 2018.

Contact Information

The LAI with review and update this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the LAI has not adhered to this statement, please write the President, Library Association of Ireland, c/o 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.