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How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their...

Don lá atá inniu ann - beidh do leabharlann nó siopa leabhar in ann an ceann seo a fháil duit: microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...

Around 10 years ago I met Manchán when we both spoke at an @irishtimes.com food culture event. He was very nice and had a piece of paper for all the speakers with an old Irish word chosen for them. I still have it. He picked well for this dairy scientist.
May he rest in peace.

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96 The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

R.I.P. Patricia Routledge.

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September 2025 Newsletter Welcome to the monthly newsletter from the Irish Research eLibrary! As a new academic year begins, we’ll recap on some of our news from the last few months, and share some forthcoming events of intere...

Welcome to our first newsletter of the academic year!
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Online Lunchtime Research Skills Seminars for Academics & Researchers commencing 16th October, booking now www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/even...

The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

More on the failures/erasures that ai chatbots introduce into library search tools aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

As lectures begin, it's the start of a new chapter 📚 Whether you’re a new student or are returning after the summer break, you are so welcome here! We can't wait to help you on your academic journey! #MULibrary

Picard strategy tip: When an egotistical, malevolent person tells you their dangerous intent, believe them.

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Arrived in Siena today for the #IGeLU2025 conference. Looking forward to 3 days of learning, listening and discussion related to library services. @mulibrary.bsky.social

A big thank you to everyone who joined us in the Library (or online) today for a day of collaboration and shared learning at the Arqus Alliance Seminar.
This afternoon’s plenary provided key insights from the workshops, plans for joint projects and funding opportunities.

We closed the day with reflections and next steps from Cathal McCauley, Maynooth University Librarian.
It's been a productive day of collaboration and action — thank you to those who attended and to the organisers!
#ARQUS #MULibrary

Find out all you need to know about MU Library services in our Quick Start Guide. Copies available at the Admission Desk or online www.maynoothuniversi...

Would you like to work at the Library? We have a number of vacancies on the Engagement and Information Services Team who work assisting students at the front desks. This is a part-time term time role and requires full flexibility including daytime, evenings and weekends. #JobVacancy #WorkAtMULibrary

‘Touching grass’, Gen-Z's fight back against big tech Tech entrepreneur and journalist, Mark Little, discusses the challenges Gen-Z are facing and – importantly – the resilience they are showing and what the rest of us can learn from them.

If you want a glimpse of a future where humanity has a more intentional and resilient relationship with technology then pay attention to the digital natives www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Books by Bots | American Libraries Magazine Librarians grapple with AI-generated material in their library collections.

Books by Bots
Librarians grapple with AI-generated material in collections 📚
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The archive of poet, playwright, Spanish civil war veteran and founder of The O'Brien Press, Thomas O'Brien (1914-1974), is now available to consult in Special Collections & Archives.

More info please see our Libguide nuim.libguides.com/c.php?g=7048...

#archives #newcollections

Donate to Help Barbara Access Vital Treatment for Glioblastoma, organized by Aoife McCormack To all of our friends and family, people we have met along the wa… Aoife McCormack needs your support for Help Barbara Access Vital Treatment for Glioblastoma

Please consider supporting this fundraiser.
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⚠️OPEN ACCESS QUOTA UPDATE ⚠️ ScienceDirect tokens are projected to run out in mid-September. For more information contact: library.openaccess@mu.ie
#openaccess #TAQUOTA #MULibrary

Today is 2025-09-04, the sun sets at 19:06:32 (20:06:32 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 3 hours, 00 mins and 49 secs. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn

Congratulations to all those having their Conferring ceremonies this week! Class of 2025 🎓👏 #MULibrary #ClassOf2025 #LibraryCatisProud

Photo of a book page from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, page 177. The passage reads 11 From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders  with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward  is to be controlled  by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool  is to be led  by the opportunists  who control the fool. To be led by a thief  is to offer up  your most precious treasures  to be stolen. To be led by a liar  is to ask  to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant  is to sell yourself  and those you love  into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents (1998) feels eerily prescient today.
I doubt she could have imagined just how close America would come to her vision.

MU Library has a LGBTQIA+ Contact Person - reach out to Áine at librarypridesupport@mu.ie for support with any related matters. Check out the Library foyer for Pride and Pronoun pins from 4th September, and to learn more.
#LGBTQI+

September's Database of the Month is Academic Search Complete. It provides access to thousands of scholarly journals and offers powerful search features, making it easy to find reliable information fast. Access it via the Linktree in our bio #MULibrary #MULibraryeResources

The Library recently completed their 2025 Reuse and Recycle Initiative. Among the items collected were laptops, PCs, monitors, docking stations, a scanner, keyboards and mice, calculators, a camera and 4 boxes filled with cables and chargers. Thanks to all who supported this initiative. #greencampus

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Aaron Binchy as our new Open Access Monitor Officer, effective from 1st September. Aaron has been with IReL as Licensing Officer since 2017, & has been the interim project manager for the National Open Access Monitor since 2024.
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YouTube video by Paddy Reilly Paddy Reilly - The Fields of Athenry (Live at the National Stadium, Dublin, 1983)

If you're an '80s Irish kid, the definitive version of 'The Fields Of Athenry' is by Paddy Reilly, new in the Irish charts in August 1983 and spending a whopping 72 weeks in the Irish top thirty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Lp...

Creative Commons Becomes an Official UNESCO NGO Partner - Creative Commons UNESCO © 2025 by Brigitte Vézina is licensed under CC BY 4.0 We are proud to announce that we are now established as an official NGO partner to UNESCO (consultative status). UNESCO stands for “United ...

CC is elated to announce that we have officially become an NGO partner with @unesco.org 👏!

Learn more about what this means for our organization: creativecommons.org/2025/08/21/c...