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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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18
Jan

Acquisition of Bonar Law Collection

The Bonar Law Collection, acquired by the National Library of Ireland, will be housed in the Boole Library at UCC and can be accessed by researchers and members of the public by contacting UCC Library Special Collections and Archives team. The collection is is being housed in UCC Library as part of a loan agreement following...
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18
Jan

CONUL Teaching and Learning Annual Seminar

The CONUL Teaching and Learning Committee invite you to attend their 2024 Annual Seminar! This year, the seminar is titled “Defining ‘AI’ in Teaching and Learning: the role of libraries in Access and Inclusion; Academic Integrity; and Artificial Intelligence” Friday 1st March 2024 9:30am–4pm Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, College Green The seminar will...
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11
Jan

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’. CILIP Ireland/LAI would like to hear from both members and non-members about exciting developmental work happening in libraries and knowledge and...
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11
Jan

The 2024 CONUL Conference Call for Papers is open.

Conference website 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. CONUL invites submissions for presentations and posters which address topics including, but not limited to: Libraries and global citizenship Libraries supporting...
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11
Jan

The Europe Challenge announces 55 libraries and communities from 24 countries for its 2024 edition

The Europe Challenge, initiated by the European Cultural Foundation (https://culturalfoundation.eu/)  (ECF) and supported by Fondazione Cariplo (https://www.fondazionecariplo.it/it/index.html) , the Scottish Library and Information Council (https://scottishlibraries.org/)  and by public funding through Arts Council England (https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/) , is thrilled to announce the selection of 55 libraries and communities from 24 countries for its 2024 edition: Libraries, Communities,...
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22
Dec

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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22
Dec

Review of the Constitution and Rules of the Library Association of Ireland

The Library Association of Ireland is a Company Limited by Guarantee and operates under Part 18 Companies Act 2014. A new Working Group of the Council of the LAI has been constituted to review the current Constitution and Rules of the Association which were formally adopted in 2021. The group will examine, report on, and...
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22
Dec

A Christmas Message

Dear LAI Members, On behalf of the Council of the Library Association of Ireland, I would like to wish all of our members and supporters a very Happy Christmas. In the face of the many challenges faced by library staff in 2023, our role as providers of trusted information that is accessible to all has...
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21
Dec

LAI Munster meet & greet

LAI Munster Regional Section group are hosting a meet & greet event to be held in Kinsale, Co. Cork on January 19th 2024. Join the Library Association of Ireland Munster Regional Section for its first event in 2024! Date: 19 January 2024 Location: Kinsale Library, Church Square, Kinsale, Co. Cork, P17 XK74. Schedule: 13:45-14:00: registration 14:00-14:40:...
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11
Dec

CILIP Ireland LAI Joint Conference 2024 Call for Papers

The Joint CILIP Ireland / LAI Conference will take place on 24th and 25th April 2024. We want to hear from our members. The closing date for submissions is Sunday 14 January and the submission link is:  https://bit.ly/CILIPIRE-LAI-CallForPapers   Download the Call for Papers for more information
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04
Dec

“Libraries are for Everyone”. Statement from the Library Association of Ireland

“Libraries are for Everyone”. Statement from the Library Association of Ireland Library Ireland Week 2023 Dec 3rd-9th   The Library Association of Ireland (LAI), the professional body representing librarians and libraries in Ireland, promotes knowledge, intellectual freedom, and the values of equity, diversity and inclusion. The LAI firmly believes in the right of individuals to...
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01
Dec

An Post Book Awards – LAI Author of the Year 2023

At the recent awards night held in Dublin’s Convention Centre, author Claire Keegan was announced as the LAI Author of the Year. Claire’s stories are translated into more than thirty languages, and she has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Edge Hill Prize, the Davy Byrnes Award, and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction,...
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22
Nov

Career Development Group: Emerging Careers; Get to know what ‘that’ Library job entails! and AGM

Have you seen a library job advertisement lately and not known exactly what that job entailed? Found you were none-the-wiser having read the job description? Have you wondered could I do that job? Do I have any transferable skills? These are some things we at the CDG hear frequently – so now we bring you...
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13
Nov

Hosting Internships for UCD MLIS Students

After a successful relaunch in 2023, the School of Information & Communication Studies is again seeking internship opportunities in libraries and information organisations for students on the MLIS  programme, to run during the summer of 2024. These short internships are an  important part of service learning for many of our students and allow them to...
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13
Nov

Welcome to Library Ireland Week 2023

Library Ireland Week will take place from Sunday 3rd December to Saturday 9th December 2023! Its time to plan events and activities celebrating libraries and library staff. The theme for this year is ‘Your Library, Your Universe – Libraries are for Everyone’ For more information visit www.libraryirelandweek.ie #LIW23
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10
Nov

HSLG AGM 23rd November

Members of the Health Sciences Libraries Group are invited to attend our Annual General Meeting which will take place online on Thursday 23rd November 2023, from 11:00-12:00. HSLG members will receive a link to register for the AGM via Eventbrite. To join the HSLG please visit our membership page https://hslg.ie/about/membership/
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09
Nov

LAI Rare Books and Genealogy and Local Studies Groups seminar

“If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday” The LAI Rare Books and Genealogy and Local Studies Groups look forward to welcoming you to this joint seminar “If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday: genealogical & local studies materials in Irish Special Collections & Archives.” Advance registration is...
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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.