Saoirse de Paor (MU)

Speaking Sessions

Biography

Saoirse works as a Teaching & Learning Librarian at Maynooth University Library. Her interests include information literacy, development of online learning resources as well as user engagement and social media promotion/outreach.

Saoirse is the social media officer for the Library Association of Ireland as well as a member of the Communication’s team for the Career Development Group (of the LAI) and the Digital Communications team at Maynooth University Library. She undertook the role of Co-lead for the Communications team at IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress in Dublin in 2023 alongside colleague Martin O’Connor (University College Cork). Saoirse has published within the Library profession which includes her first peer-review journal article on Information literacy and fake news in the Journal of Academic Librarianship.