@libfocus.bsky.social
A communal blog with a broad and open-minded take on the subject of library and information management. We love guest posts! https://www.libfocus.com/
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Join us for an exclusive tour of Chester Beatty Library from 6.30-7.30 pm on Wed 5th November! The tickets are FREE and available to current members of the @aslibraries.bsky.social group. Places are limited so reserve your ticket now at tinyurl.com/v4vrx9fy
07.10.2025 08:34 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Well done to Rebecca Cairns from @ria.ie whose article 'Drawing from nature: The botanical drawings of Eileen Barnes' has won 3rd prize in the 2025 @conultraindev.bsky.social Library Assistant Blog awards. Read it now over at www.libfocus.com
06.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Well done to Alana Mahon O'Neill from @dculibrary.bsky.social whose article 'How I learned to stop worrying and love Leganto' has won 2nd prize in the 2025 @conultraindev.bsky.social Library Assistant Blog awards. Read it now over at www.libfocus.com
01.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Congratulations to Claire Dunne @ucdlibrary.bsky.social winner of the 2025 @conultraindev.bsky.social Library Assistant Blog Award! Read her blog post 'Shells, Shorthand, and Skipping Classes: Documenting Prize Bookplates in the John Manning Collection of Children's Books' now at www.libfocus.com
29.09.2025 08:07 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
UCD Richview Library - a brick library with clock, leafy hedges and a brick path leading to the library.
Job alert!✨
We are looking for a multimedia designer - a role creating visual content for digital & physical displays, utilising skills in graphic design, video production & editing to enhance UCD Library comms & engagement initiatives.
Apply by 12 noon 7 Oct at www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... #jobsIE
With items from @jstor.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @wcet.bsky.social @arl.org @hannahshelley.bsky.social @richove.bsky.social @theguardian.com @reemasabrina.bsky.social @amlibraries.bsky.social
15.09.2025 07:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Unlike the current Irish weather our link-out is always reliable, bringing you the latest library & info news each month! Get up to date on the wicked scholarly publishing system, the endurance of libraries & the war on knowledge, AI & Open Access, the Google Graveyard and more at www.libfocus.com
15.09.2025 07:32 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Three people in Malawi Prisons uniforms stand in a library. A woman in the foreground reads an open book on a wooden table, while two men stand behind her, smiling and holding books. Shelves filled with books line the background.
A man in a tan uniform stands in front of a chalkboard, smiling and pointing to a physics textbook he is holding. In front of him, a table is stacked with boxes of exercise books and piles of school textbooks, including titles on chemistry, mathematics, geography, and English grammar
Two people stand smiling inside a shop. A woman in a cream and black dress holds a ream of paper, while a man in a tan uniform and cap also holds it. Shelves behind them display stationery, electronics, and office supplies
New on Libfocus: @helenfallon.bsky.social writes about her current project supporting prison libraries in Malawi.
A powerful reminder of how libraries transform lives.
www.libfocus.com/2025/09/pris...
With articles from @versobooks.bsky.social @fortune.com
@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @publisherswkly.bsky.social
5 images: clockwise from top: A robot hand holding a pen, wavy line, a picture of two men (musicians Paul McCartney and David Bowie), a woman looking at a screen, a person standing in front of a stack of books
Our August link-out is here and it's jam-packed with the latest #library and information-linked news! Get the latest updates about AI, publishers in crisis and librarians working with journalists. Look back on Live Aid and discover how #libraries inspired Martin Luther King www.libfocus.com
15.08.2025 08:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two people standing in the Cregan exhibtion space viewing the exhibition Sadako & the Paper Cranes
The title poster for Sadako & Paper Cranes, hope riding on the wings of cranes by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Visit the Sadako and Paper Cranes exhibition in Cregan Library, which marks 80 years since the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima.
Produced by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, exhibited in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in Ireland & SALIS
tinyurl.com/4bh7xsv6
@dublincityuni.bsky.social
E-books are on the line as Congress considers future of library funding 📚
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Documentary Explores Historic Struggles, Lasting Impact of Black #Librarians in America (via @wttw.bsky.social) news.wttw.com/2025/07/23/d... #libraries #publiclibraries
28.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
OCLC explains the lay offs, "Artificial Intelligence and other technology changes require different skills and provide opportunity for efficiencies..." 📚
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Job advertisement featuring two open positions: 'Learning Support Librarian' with a closing date of 05 August 2025, and 'Head of Special Collections & Archives' with a closing date of 19 August 2025. The text 'We are hiring a' appears at the top in green. The background shows a modern building with large windows and surrounding trees
UCC Library is currently hiring for Two roles:
Learning Support Librarian
Deadline: 5 August, 12pm
Head of Special Collections & Archives
Deadline: 19 August, 12pm
More info and applications:
www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
A UCC Library job advertisement with a background of sunlight streaming through a forest. The University College Cork logo is in the top-right corner. Text reads: “We are hiring a Head of Special Collections & Archives. UCC Library. Permanent Whole Time Post. Closing Date 19 August 2025.
UCC Library is recruiting a Head of Special Collections & Archives.
Lead the development, digitisation, and promotion of our rare books, manuscripts & archives.
Apply by 12pm, 19 Aug: www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
Hands typing on a keyboard below the text: CONUL consortium of national and university libraries training and development
Entries for the 2025 Library Assistant Blog awards for an article in the style of a blog post are now being accepted. The competition is open to staff at all library assistant and equivalent grades in CONUL Training & Development member libraries. The theme of your blog entry must be library related. This could include any aspect of your current work; your ideas on a particular library development; some training/developmental activity you undertook; an event/innovation in your library; a particular item in your library’s collection; your library building etc. The closing date for entries is the 31st July 2025. 1st Prize €200 2nd Prize €150 3rd Prize €100 Please see the following Blog Guidelines and Judging Criteria for further details.
Calling all library assistants in CONUL Libraries - have you submitted to the @conultraindev.bsky.social Library Assistant Blog awards yet? Only 3 days to go to be in with a chance to win 1 of 3 prizes including the top prize of €200 AND be published in @libfocus.bsky.social conul.ie/library-assi...
28.07.2025 09:56 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Today's guest post is by Anne Charlotte Danhiez from the Robert de Sorbon Library in France. Learn about her thought-provoking and inspiring visits to CONUL Libraries as part of the @conultraindev.bsky.social Erasmus Library Staff Mobility Week in Dublin #ErasmusDub25 www.libfocus.com
18.07.2025 08:11 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Featuring posts from @hannahshelley.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @insidehighered.com @theguardian.com @virtualtreasury.bsky.social and more
07.07.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always on the lookout for the latest info and #library news? In our July link-out you'll learn about language bias in scholarly publishing, essential skills for library staff, AI & technology in #libraries, the pioneering Irish project recovering lost historical records and more at www.libfocus.com
07.07.2025 09:07 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Graphic featuring a sunlit forest background with the University College Cork (UCC) logo in the top right. Bold text reads: “We are hiring a Learning Support Librarian – UCC Library – Permanent Whole Time Post.” A box at the bottom right highlights: “Closing Date 05 August 2025.
📢 UCC Library is hiring a Learning Support Librarian
Lead on study skills, digital tools & academic support and supporting student success.
📍 Permanent, full-time
🗓️ Apply by 05 Aug 2025 12pm
👉 www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
#LibraryJobs #UCC #AcademicLibrarian #Hiring
A humorous Instagram post from the account “irishnostalgia” featuring a photo of an old-fashioned library card catalog—rows of wooden cabinets with hundreds of small drawers. Above the photo, bold text reads: “Who remembers the first search engine.” The caption adds, “…and after 15 minutes you find out that someone’s borrowed the source you were looking for! ..Come back next week!! 😭” The post is accompanied by hashtags related to books, libraries, and nostalgia.
Who remembers the first search engine?
(HT: @irishnostalgia account across on Instagram)
We officially left Twitter this week after 16 years on the platform. For those of you who followed us there during the good times (or for anyone who likes a good meme), we've compiled a video of our favourite Twitter moments. We're looking forward to finding friends old and new on Bluesky.
27.06.2025 16:01 — 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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In her @conulconference.bsky.social review, @hollymeadekennedy.bsky.social from @mulibrary.bsky.social shares how empowering it was for her to hear from so many female library leaders at #CONUL25. Read more about a conference experience that was 'rare and radical' at www.libfocus.com
26.06.2025 08:15 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our latest guest post reflects on key themes from the @conulconference.bsky.social 2025 — Shaping Tomorrow’s Libraries — including AI, sustainability, & inclusive leadership.
Thanks to David O’Connell @ullibrary.bsky.social for the thoughtful write-up.
www.libfocus.com/2025/06/blog...
Graphic of a rectangle with a heart hands and feet and a magic wand with the caption something that you would do differently. A suitcase with the caption one thing you'll take away with you. A thought bubble that reads something you will remember and a bin that reads something you didn't like.
Michelle McMeekin's @conulconference.bsky.social review gives an excellent snapshot of #CONUL25 in Tullamore. It is the first of three conference reports from this year's bursary winners. Read all about the conference talks, trends and tastes at libfocus.com
24.06.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Our latest guest post is from Isabell Seeger, soon-to-be MLIS graduate from @ucdischool.bsky.social. She outlines her motivation for a career change from tech into librarianship and the surprising parallels and transferable skills from one to the other over at www.libfocus.com
19.06.2025 07:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
5 images clockwise from top left: Hands holding a flame to red plastic material, two men with dyed hair standing shoulder to shoulder, a building viewed through slatted blinds, a woman with an SFSU tshirt lying on pages, a red circle with an x on it in the middle of a picture of a map system
Our latest link-out covers #library controversies and #libraries championing climate action, endangered crafts and book-inspired songs, must-read LGBTQ+ authors to celebrate #pridemonth, the latest in AI and open science and more at www.libfocus.com
11.06.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Two great opportunities to join the amazing team here at UL Library.
1. Executive Administrator - Library and Information Services
2. Librarian - Student Engagement & Success.
Full details available www.ul.ie/vacancies
#LISjobsIE
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Our latest guest post is from Paraic Elliott @dculibrary.bsky.social who shares his thoughts about censorship and what the current issues around censorship are for libraries www.libfocus.com
03.06.2025 12:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
