Programme 2015

Wednesday 1 June 2016
Thursday 2 June 2016
Poster Presentations
09.00-11.00 Registration / Refreshments / Sponsor and Poster Exhibitions
11.00-12.00

Welcome
Helen Fallon, Chair of Conference Organising Committee and Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Chair of CONUL

Keynote 1
Chair: Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Royal Irish Academy and Chair of CONUL

Remember your epiphanies: Collaborative management of print resources in the 21st Century
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections at the California Digital Library

12.00-13.00 Plenary 1 (Hoey Suite)
Chair:Jessie Kurtz Trinity College Dublin

Watch, Listen, Learn: understanding the undergraduate research process through an ethnographic lens
Siobhán Dunne, Dublin City University

The story of GAeL (Graduate Attributes eLearning): embedding information literacy through critical skills, collaboration and a new curriculum
Lorna Dodd & Dr Brian McKenzie, Maynooth University

13.00- 13.15 Thomson Reuters presentation
13.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Plenary 2 (Hoey Suite)
Chair: Kate Kelly Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

CAVAL: an Australian collaborative experience
Michelle Agar, Trinity College Dublin

The pieces of the puzzle: building relationships through community collecting
Katherine McSharry, National Library of Ireland

15.00-16.00 Parallel 1

Hoey Suite

Getting the edge: Library and Career Development Centre collaboration to help students develop employability skills and find jobs
Allison Kavanagh, Dublin Institute of Technology

Working in partnership to empower students with disabilities: the Queen’s University Belfast experience
Sally Bridge, Queen’s University Belfast

Digital humanities in Ireland and China: a prospect of multi-level cooperation (international)Jane Burns, RCSI/UCD

Chair: Lorna Dodd
Maynooth University

Grace Suite 1

Strategic Partnerships – building the Irish Poetry Reading Archive and developing library exhibitions
Ursula Byrne, University College Dublin

Pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore: a collaborative project by the Digital Repository of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland
Catherine Ryan, University College Dublin

Chair: Cillian Joy (NUIG)

Grace Suite 3

Gathered together – a survey of the unique and distinct collections held by CONUL (Special collections)
Susie Bioletti, Felicity O’Mahony, Trinity College Dublin and Elaine Harrington, University College Cork

Acquiring a 14-century historical manuscript from St Mary’s Cistercian Abbey, Dublin: an exercise in collaboration
Dr Bernard Meehan, Trinity College Dublin

The online catalogue of Greek manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin: a portal to international scholarship
Felicity O’Mahony, Trinity College Dublin

Chair: Barbara Mc Cormack
Maynooth University

16.00-16.30 Refreshments / Sponsor and Poster Exhibitions
16.30-17.30 Plenary 3 (Hoey Suite)
Chair: John Cox (NUIG)
The ‘Academic’ Librarian: collaborating with an academic department to design and deliver a Master’s programme at Maynooth University
Hugh Murphy & Barbara McCormack, Maynooth University

Collaborating to trace conversations about bereavement on twitter
Laura Rooney Ferris, Irish Hospice Foundationand Jane Burns, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland / University College Dublin

19.00 River Shannon Cruise with drinks reception followed by Conference Dinner at the hotel
(River Shannon cruise will be weather permitting)
09.00-10.00

Welcome
Helen Fallon, Chair of the Conference Organising Committee

Keynote 2
Chair: Cathal Mc Cauley Maynooth University
Inspiring Change: Studying Users to Improve Library Services
Dr Susan Gibbons, University Librarian and Deputy Provost for Libraries and Scholarly Communication, Yale University

10.00-11.00

Plenary 4 (Hoey Suite)
Chair: Christopher Pressler Dublin City University
CONUL Directors Forum and Presentation of Ireland’s Memory. Ireland’s Discovery: CONUL Strategy 2016-2019
Introduced and chaired by Christopher Pressler, University Librarian , Dublin City University and including a Q&A session with CONUL Directors

11.00-11.30 Refreshments / Sponsor and Poster Exhibitions
11.30-12.30 Parallel 2

Hoey Suite

Embedding a reading list management system in an Irish university
Monica Crump, NUIG

Digital collaborations supporting transition into third level with an online marketing tool
Sarah-Anne Kennedy, Dublin Institute of Technology

Supporting internal interns
Sinead Keogh, University of Limerick

Chair: Allison Kavanagh
Dublin Institute of Technology

Grace Suite 1

BNB accommodation the Legal Deposit Libraries’ Shared Cataloguing Programme
Peter Guilding, Trinity College Dublin

Why Ireland needs a CONUL union catalogue
Eoin McCarney, University College Dublin

Chair: Hugh Murphy
Maynooth University

12.30-13.00 Parallel 3

Hoey Suite

The Rock of Cashel, two Archbishops, a library & the University of Limerick
Evelyn McAuley, University of Limerick

Chair: Susie Bioletti
Trinity College Dublin

Grace Suite 1

If you’re not in, you can’t win! – working with UCD student digital ambassadors

James Molloy
and Joshua Clark, University College Dublin

Chair: Philip Cohen
Dublin Institute of Technology

Grace Suite 3

The international image interoperability framework: why it’s a game-changer for digital libraries
Dr John Howard, University College Dublin

Chair: Sandra Collins
National Library of Ireland

13.00-13.50 Lunch
13.50-14.00
ANLTC Awards and Prizes
14.00-14.45 Parallel 4

Hoey Suite

Using an online collaborative approach to develop and implement a national 23 Things course
Stephanie Ronan, Marine Institute

Library Creative Zone & Blackstone LaunchPad – doing new things
Valerie King
& Colette McKenna, University College Cork

Doing more with more, as well as doing more with less
Brian Gillespie, Dublin Institute of Technology

Chair: Christopher Pressler
Dublin City University

Grace Suite 1

The European Historical Bibliographies Network and Irish History Online
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, Royal Irish Academy

Transforming Irish family history research: the NLI’s Catholic parish register digitisation project
Ciara Kerrigan, National Library of Ireland

Yeats and the Abbey Theatre minute books (1904-1939), an example of layered partnership
Cillian Joy, NUIG

Chair: Helen Shenton
Trinity College Dublin

14.45-15.00 Ex Libris presentation
15.00-15.30 Refreshments / Sponsor and Poster Exhibitions

Sponsors Prize
15.30-16.20

Plenary 5 (Hoey Suite)
Chair: Elaine Harrington, University College Cork
Preserving our past together: reflections on the Easter Rising 1916 Web Archive
John McManus & Dr Brendan Power, Trinity College Dublin

Village in the city: collaborating on National Photographic Archive exhibitions
Elizabeth Kirwan, National Library of Ireland

16.20-16.30 Conference Close
Helen Fallon, Chair of Conference Organising Committee
and Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Chair of CONUL

Incentivization and collaboration: playing with the flipped model in embedded information literacy sessions
Kristopher Meen
NUI Galway

“UX in Maynooth University Library
Laura Connaughton
Maynooth University

User Engagement: What Makes it Worthwhile?
Niall McSweeney
NUI Galway

From Froebel to Maynooth – Merging Library Collections
Marie G. Cullen, Mary Robinson
Maynooth University

Library Ireland Week, November 2015: Library Staff Exchange Scheme
Olive Morrin
Maynooth University


James Durney
Historian-in-Residence with Kildare County Library and Arts Service

Towards a formal understanding of users and collaboration in the archives
Claire Allen
Trinity College Dublin

The Evolution of Information literacy in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology Library: a Collaborative Process between the Library and Academic Staff
Margaret Waldron, Bernie Lally, Maura Stephens, Kathryn Briggs, Helen Flatley
Galway Mayo Institute of Technology

The Liam O’Leary Archive; Ireland’s Film on Paper
Joanne Carroll
Irish Film Institute, National Library of Ireland

Restoring Ireland’s finest Palladian House: A Research Collaboration between the OPW and the OPW-Maynooth University Archive and Research Centre, Castletown House
Nicola Kelly
Maynooth University

Why the Library needs IT, and maybe vice-versa.
Dermot Frost
Trinity College Dublin

Destination Open Access: Getting Researchers On Board.
Lynne Gault, Mark Bennett
Queen’s University Belfast