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Today we bring you the third and final blog post from our #CONUL25 Bursary Award winners. Today's blog is by Holly Meade-Kennedy, a library assistant in Maynooth University Library.
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This morning, we bring the second of three blog posts by #CONUL25 Bursary Award Winners. Today's post is written by John O'Donnell, Library Assistant in the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick.
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Today we are pleased to bring the first of three blog posts by our #CONUL25 Bursary Award winners. Today's post is written by Michelle McMeekin, Senior Library Assistant in Queen's University, Belfast.
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Inspiring talk from Anne Jarvis about libraries thriving through
•Partnership
•Innovation
•Sustainability
‘Libraries are no longer collection driven, but user driven’.
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Come visit @ivonac.bsky.social wonderful poster about pivoting from academic libraries to healthcare libraries
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Really useful workshop on Editing the Digital Landscape and we got a fun worksheet too!
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And with that #CONUL25 is over. Thank you so much to our speakers, our sponsors, and our delegates for a wonderful conference
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Breakout sessions have kicked off on Day 2 of #CONUL25, where we're learning about a vast array of topics such as archival literacy and engagement, RDM, and bats (yes, bats in the library!)
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Our third Platinum sponsor, Clarivate, is being represented by Valentin Bogorov
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@conulconference.bsky.social Anne Jarvis speaking about the positioning of the Library of Princeton to harness key campus partners. #conul25
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@conulconference.bsky.social Anne Jarvis speaking about Make Net a makerspace collaboration across Princeton including the library makerspace. VR headsets in use for country experience for language students and archaeological site experience for archaeology students . #conul25
29.05.2025 08:55 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Anne Jarvis is explaining how ephemera gives us a "rare and powerful glimpse" into people's lives at that time, and also at how we live today. The fact that they are fragile and were not expected to last makes them all the more important to our understanding to the past and our future.
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Anne Jarvis' final theme is Sustainability, pointing out that collections that we create will only be valuable if we keep sustainability in mind.
- looking at stock and deciding what is needed, rather than what has always been collected
- looking at subject headings
- collecting ephemera
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Princeton Univeristy Library will be introducing a Curiosity Studio, allowing space for pop-ups, presentations, and a space to be collaboratively creative.
The Makerspace is intended to break down barriers.
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Anne Jarvis' next point is Innovation.
She is urging us to us AI technologies "thoughtfully, responsibly" and in a "meaningful and creative" way to continue the tradition of libraries exploring new ideas.
Library space innovation - a hot topic - is also being discussed.
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Anne Jarvis is telling is how ReCap has come about as a collaboration between
- Princeton University Library
- Columbia University Libraries
- New York Public Library
- Harvard Library
- Yale joining in July
There an amazing 18 million volumes in this shared collection!
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We are now hearing how a partnership has brought about TigerData at Princeton University, changing the focus from data storage to data management
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Princeton's principles regarding information resources
- user empowerment
- inclusive access
- strategic innovation (encompassing both new technologies and improvements to current resources)
- integrated experience (everything should work together to be a unified environment for users)
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Anne Jarvis is sharing with us Princeton's North Star Statements and discussing how we should harness change, rather than trying to fight it. The statements are reviewed each year to make sure that they are still relevant #CONUL25
29.05.2025 08:36 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Anne Jarvis' first point regards partnership between libraries and their users #CONUL25
29.05.2025 08:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Anne Jarvis is currently discussing how we have the power to share our trustworthy collections in a world that has seen a lot of misinformation #CONUL25
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Two women standing in front of a presentation screen with the following text: Conul conference shaping tomorrow
Eight people standing looking at the camera
A woman in a library print dress standing in front of book wallpaper
A woman speaking from a lectern to a seated audience
Congratulations to @orlanicaodha.bsky.social and Gwendolyn O'Connor who delivered an inspiring talk about the @dublincityuni.bsky.social Human Library event at the @conulconference.bsky.social. The DCU Library team is looking forward to a second day of thought-provoking talks at #CONUL2025.
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Anne Jarvis has taken to the stage #CONUL25
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Looking forward to hearing our second keynote speaker, Anne Jarvis, this morning #CONUL25
29.05.2025 07:25 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Not long to go until Day 2 of #CONUL25 starts. You can find our livestream here: conference.conul.ie/conference-l...
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Loved Day 1 of #CONUL25. Great keynote from Richard Ovenden of #Oxford University on tech bros, boring books & rethinking interdependence! Equally great talks by my colleagues Michaela Hollywood on reimagining library spaces & @lauraconnaughtonmu.bsky.social on MU Library's #AthenaSwan application!
28.05.2025 22:23 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Not at #CONUL2025 this year but very much enjoying hearing @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @richove.bsky.social speaking about collecting and preservation challenges through the @conulconference.bsky.social livestream!
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A few more of our wonderful speakers today. Everyone has been amazing today and we're looking forward to tomorrow!
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Some really interesting breakout sessions this afternoon #CONUL25
28.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Members of the CONUL Board, including the Chair of CONUL ciara McCaffrey, with the brand new 2025-2029 Strategy "Shaping Tomorrow: The Next Chapter for Irish Research Libraries"
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