Programme 2023

WEDNESDAY 24 MAY 2023
10:00am – 11:15amREGISTRATION, Hotel Foyer
REFRESHMENTS/SPONSOR EXHIBITION
11:15am – 11:25amTivoli Suite                          
WELCOME
Fiona Morley (MU) Chair of the CONUL Conference Committee and Sandra Collins (UCD) Chair of CONUL
11:25am – 12:15pmKEYNOTE
Our Grandest Challenge, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Executive Director, Mid-Hudson Library System
Chair: Sandra Collins, Chair of CONUL
Timekeeper: Elaine Harrington UCC
12:15pm – 12:20pmPlatinum sponsor – Sustainable Digital Preservation for Academic Libraries, Tracy Broadhurst (Preservica Ltd)
Timekeeper: Elaine Harrington UCC
12:20pm – 12:25pmPlatinum sponsor – EBSCO’s Panorama – Engagement Data, Phill Hall, EBSCO
Timekeeper: Elaine Harrington UCC
12:30pm – 1:40pmBREAKOUT SESSION 1 – PARALLEL PAPERS
Tivoli Suite
PARALLEL PAPERS
Chair: Coral Black UCC
Timekeeper: Caoimhe Ní Lochlainn TCD
 
UCC Library – maintaining momentum
Martin O’Driscoll (University College Cork, Ireland)
 
The TCD Sense Project: A Universal Design Approach for Library Services & Space
Siobhán Dunne, Peter Dudley (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
 
A Green Focus for UCD Library
James Molloy, Ursula Byrne (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Harbour Suite 4
PARALLEL PAPERS
Chair: Laura Shanahan TCD
Timekeeper: Mary McDonnell DCU
 
Data Stewardship, Research Culture & a Sustainable Research Ecosystem
Johanna Archbold (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland), Jenny O’Neill (University College Dublin, Ireland)
 
MARC Data as Datasets: The Bolton Library Catalogue as a Source for Digital Scholarship
Caleb Derven, Olivia Lardner (University of Limerick, Ireland)
 
Why Research Libraries supporting Open Access is vital to the achievement of the UN SDGs and enabling Social Justice
Ciarán Quinn (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Harbour Suite 5
PARALLEL PAPERS
Chair: John McDonagh DCU
Timekeeper: Áine Carey MU

The Library of the Future: Embedding Sustainability into Strategic Planning
Lorna Dodd (University College Dublin, Ireland)
 
Making the Switch: Moving from deployed to hosted EZproxy
Grace O’Brien, Marie G. Cullen (Maynooth University, Ireland)
 
The Sustainable Strategic Advancement of Academic Libraries: a SWOT analysis
John Cox (University of Galway, Ireland)
 
1:40pm – 2:30pmLUNCH & SPONSOR EXHIBITION
2:30pm – 3:30pmBREAKOUT SESSION 2 – LIGHTNING TALKS/WORKSHOP
Tivoli Suite
LIGHTNING TALKS
Chair: Michelle Breen UL
Timekeeper: Justine Bennett UL
 
Leading the process for promotional initiatives; An MU Library Strategy
Saoirse de Paor, Fiona Tuohy (Maynooth University, Ireland)
 
Education for sustainable development: a selection of UCC Library contributions to the UN Sustainability Development Goals
Stephanie Chen (University College Cork, Ireland)
 
Simple, sustainable, scalable: Developing online engagement and research resources for heritage collections
Dr. Kirsten Mulrennan (University of Limerick, Ireland)
 
Looking at the Library through the lens of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals): simple ways to ensure library staff and libraries continue to thrive
Martin O’Connor, Stephanie Chen (University College Cork, Ireland)
Harbour Suite 5
WORKSHOP
Timekeeper: Maria Kelly TCD
 
Lego Serious Play and Open Scholarship
Aisling Coyne (Technological University Dublin, Ireland), Hardy  Schwamm (University of Galway, Ireland), Séan Harnett (Atlantic Technological University, Ireland), Edie Davis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Armin Straube (University of Limerick, Ireland), Sinéad Hanrahan (Munster Technological University, Ireland), Aoife Quinn Hegarty (University College Dublin, Ireland)
3:30pm – 4:15pmPOSTER EXHIBITION, SPONSOR EXHIBITION, REFRESHMENTS
4:15pm – 5:30pmTABLE QUIZ
Tivoli Suite
Table Quiz for All
CONUL Awards
7:00pmDRINKS RECEPTION
8:00pmDINNER – Sponsored by MDPI Open Access Publishing
THURSDAY 25 MAY 2023
9:00am – 9:30amSPONSOR EXHIBITION
9:30am – 10:20amTivoli Suite
KEYNOTE
Thirsty Servers, Carbonivorous Computers: An Ethnographic Survey of the Cloud’s “Metabolic Rift” Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, PhD candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Chair: Allison Kavanagh TU Dublin
Timekeeper: Eilís O’Neill DCU
10:20am – 10:25amPlatinum sponsor – Change is out there and it is coming to a place near you, Charlotte Wien, Vice President of library relations in Europe (Elsevier, Netherlands)
Timekeeper:
Eilís O’Neill DCU
10:25am – 10:30amPlatinum sponsor – Reaching for Sustainable Development Goals: Insights into Ireland’s Research Output, Valentin Bogorov, Strategic Customer Success Consultant (Proquest)
Timekeeper: Eilís O’Neill DCU
10:35am – 11:45amBREAKOUT SESSION 3 – PARALLEL PAPERS/SHOW & TELL
Tivoli Suite
PARALLEL PAPERS
Chair: Arlene Healy UCD
Timekeeper: Regina Lyons UG
 
Enhancing sustainable and equitable education through information literacy teaching: experiences from MU Library teaching programme
Áine Carey (Maynooth University, Ireland)
 
Education for Sustainability: Not Yet on A Sustainable Footing
Maria O’Hara, (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
 
Get Smart: Sustaining successful green library initiatives in a challenging environment
Alan Carbery, Pat Mehigan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Harbour Suite 4
SHOW & TELL
Chair: Monica Crump UG
Timekeeper: Martin O’Connor UCC

Aeroponics in UCC Library, a towering success
Doreen Lundon (University College Cork, Ireland)

Sustainable Literacy Guide from the Glucksman Library at UL
Michelle Breen, Dr. Mícheál Ó hAodha (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Sustaining access to the Photographic Element of the University of Limerick Archives
Kate Harris (University of Limerick, Ireland)

The Library Garden as Sustainable Sensory Space
Linda Bennett (Technological University Dublin, Ireland)
Harbour Suite 5
PARALLEL PAPERS
Chair: Crónán Ó Doibhlin UCC
Timekeeper: Sharon Hoefig TU Dublin

The Old Library Redevelopment Project at Trinity College Dublin: sustaining and preserving the building and its collections, and providing continuity of access
Laura Shanahan, Susie Bioletti (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
 
UK Distributed Print Book Collection
Hannah Mateer (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

The Sustainability of Collecting Everything
Christoph Schmidt Supprian
Peter Dudley (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
 
11:45am – 12:30pmPOSTER EXHIBITION, SPONSOR EXHIBITION/REFRESHMENTS
12:30pm – 1:30pmBREAKOUT SESSION 4 – LIGHTNING TALKS/WORKSHOP
Tivoli Suite
LIGHTNING TALKS
Chair: Andrew Simpson RCSI
Timekeeper: Caitriona Cannon UG

Fostering and sustaining open scholarship practice and metaliteracy at undergraduate level: The case of the Communications Undergraduate Journal at Dublin City University
Alexander Kouker, Ronan Cox & Dr. Jim Rogers (Dublin City University, Ireland)
 
Library publishing and bibliodiversity
Lai Ma, Jane Buggle & Marie O’Neill (University College Dublin, Ireland)
 
Inspiring Action: How the Bord Bia Library Supports the UNSDGs
Mairéad McKeown (Bord Bia, Dublin, Ireland)
Harbour Room 4
WORKSHOP
Timekeeper: Josh Clarke UCD

Researching sustainability at University of the Arts London: Learning through objects and critical frameworks
Billie Coxhead, Roxanne Leaver & Julia Flood (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Harbour Suite 5
SHOW & TELL
 
Make, do, and mend at the CONUL Makerspace
Louise O’Shea (University of Limerick, Ireland), Eileen Kennedy (University of Galway, Ireland), Heidi Campbell (Maynooth University, Ireland), Stephanie Chen, Martin O’Driscoll (University College Cork, Ireland)
1:30pm – 2:30pmLUNCH & SPONSOR EXHIBITION
2:30pm – 3:30pmBREAKOUT SESSION 5 – LIGHTNING TALKS/WORKSHOPS
Tivoli Suite
LIGHTNING TALKS
Chair: Ashling Hayes UL
Timekeeper: Ben Williamson UCC

LIGHTNING TALKS
When the SDGs met UDCs: Future-proofing Research
Elaine Harrington, Emma Horgan
(University College Cork, Ireland)

Using your repository to ensure the sustainability of Open Research
Adrian Clark (Figshare – Digital Science, United Kingdom)
 
The 7 Do’s of DMPS
Ruth Geraghty (RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland)
 
Confidence in Research: Global Findings and Potential Role of Libraries
Charlotte Wien, Vice President of Library Relations in Europe (Elsevier, Netherlands)
Harbour Suite 4
WORKSHOP
Timekeeper: Alexandra Caccamo MU

Using GitHub to collaboratively create and sustainably maintain open content ranging from software to websites, textbooks, journals and educational resources
Armin Straube (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Harbour Suite 5
WORKSHOP
Timekeeper: Claire Mason DCU

Facilitating knowledge creation: running a sustainable zine making event
Stephanie Chen (University College Cork, Ireland)
3:35pm – 4:15pmTivoli Suite
Sponsor Quiz winner
 
PANEL DISCUSSION: Towards a Sustainable Future
Panelists:
Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, Professor John O’Halloran (President UCC)
Chair:
Helen Shenton TCD
Timekeeper:
Stewart Killeen TU Dublin
4:15pmTivoli Suite
CONFERENCE CLOSE:
Fiona Morley (MU) Chair of the CONUL Conference Committee and John McDonough (DCU) CONUL Board Secretary

Poster Presentations

1. Embedded data stewardship supporting discovery and sustainability of arts and humanities research data: A pilot at University College Cork Library

Deborah Thorpe, Dr Aoife Coffey, Dr Darren Dahly, Dr Brendan Palmer, Christine Allan

University College Cork, Ireland

2. ILL and sustainability for Interlibrary Loans

Clare Dwyer, Kyle Christy, Maeve Shanahan

University Of Limerick, Ireland

3. A Sustainable Exhibition: Life beyond the physical

Catherine Ahearne, Alexandra  Caccamo

Maynooth University, Ireland

4. Sustainability All Abuzz: how bee colonies can model UN SDG elements for libraries

Sarah Timmins

RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland

5. Promoting Collections using Digital Engagement at Maynooth University Library

Heidi Campbell, Yvette Campbell

Maynooth University, Ireland

6. Sustainable Library Appraisal on a Portugal Library

Celine Larracas, Mingli Gong, Francisca Silva, Subbalakshmi Sindhu

Dublin Business School, Ireland

7. Sustainable Good Practice in Journal Publication

Paul Davidson

University College Cork, Ireland

8.  The Evidence is where it’s at…

Liz Dore, Pattie Punch

University of Limerick, Ireland

9. The Library as a Client in enhancing student industry-oriented learning

Israel Chidavaenzi, Silvia Onder

TU Dublin, Ireland

10. TUS Library OER index and its alignment to sustainability goals

Saoirse Mahon, Celine Peignen

Technological University Of The Shannon, Athlone, Ireland

11. UCD Library Outreach: Sustainability Workflows and Projects

Joshua Clark

University College Dublin, Ireland

12. Exploring the SDGs through Special Collections – ‘Life on Land: Trees and Birds from the 17th to 21st Centuries’

John Rooney

University College Cork, Ireland