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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 16d
UCD Spring Trimester 2026 has begun! UCD Library is now running a term-time opening hours schedule.

See below or our website: www.ucd.ie/library/use/... for the latest.
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Join the Gale Publishing team tomorrow, Fri, 6 Feb for an online look at the historical archives of 'Financial Times' (1888-2021) and 'The Economist' (1843-2020), resources brought to you by UCD Library.

Register for this online event at bit.ly/gale6feb.

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February 5, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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The 2026 Student Survey is open! 🧑‍🎓 If you're interested in exploring the student experience you can apply for access to previous years of the Student Survey through ISSDA! For more information on what we offer check out the link below:

www.ucd.ie/issda/
February 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Join Dr Ítalo de Sena @ucdengarch.bsky.social for a look at games & how they can serve as rigorous methods for #CitizenScience. There will be time for Q&A and to play a board game!

📆27 Feb 10.30-12.30
📍Link 3, James Joyce Library (& online via Zoom)

Details & register➡️ forms.gle/cZhNbRNF4TZ2...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Hurry and get your free ticket to #OpenResearch Week virtual events by this Friday 6th Feb at 3pm!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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ucdlibrary.bsky.social UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 10d
Open Research Week is 9-11 February! Celebrate #CitizenScience, #RightsRetention, #OpenPublishing & more at this 3-day series of webinars for researchers & colleagues who support #OpenResearch.

Find out more & register on the UCD Library Open Access guide: buff.ly/GokQv6k
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February 4, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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It's LGBTQ+ History Month🏳️‍🌈 & we are displaying the diversity in our collections via our Feb Spotlight display in the JJL! See our guide libguides.ucd.ie/spotlight for more.

Join us on 17 Feb for an event with Eoin McEvoy, talking about his 'Heartstopper' translation. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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It's LGBTQ+ History Month🏳️‍🌈 & we are displaying the diversity in our collections via our Feb Spotlight display in the JJL! See our guide libguides.ucd.ie/spotlight for more.

Join us on 17 Feb for an event with Eoin McEvoy, talking about his 'Heartstopper' translation. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Rainbow colours, UCD crest and text "Discover diversity in our collections LGBTQ plus history month". LGBTQ plus history month logo with rainbow colours and photo of man holding a "Heartstopper" graphic novel and cover of book.
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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There's still time to register for tomorrow's first UCD Library workshop of the spring trimester.👇👇📆 #ResearchEssentials
ucdlibrary.bsky.social UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 6d
Show your research data on a map using Datawrapper: in this free hands-on workshop you'll learn to create a #ChoroplethMap to display your statistical data by colour or pattern for geographic areas.

📆Wed, 4 Feb 3.30pm
📍Health Sciences Library

Register on our Training page at bit.ly/datawrapper26.
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February 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Raise your glass to celebrated author & UCD's most famous alumnus James Joyce, who was born #OTD in 1882. His seminal work 'Ulysses' was also published on this day, 2nd February 1922 (his 40th birthday).

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. - Ulysses
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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St Brigid's Day is #OTD. Brigid's actual existence is debated. She is given different birth and death dates. UCD-OFM MS A13, provides one of her death dates: 525. The full Irish text and translation may be found online as part of the CELT project (celt.ucc.ie).
The Age of Christ, 525. The twenty-second year of Muircheartach. Saint Brighit, virgin, Abbess of Cill Dara, died. It was to her Cill Dara was first granted, and by her it was founded. Brighit was she who never turned her mind or attention from the Lord for the space of one hour, but was constantly meditating and thinking of him in her heart and mind, as is evident in her own Life, and in the Life of St. Brenainn, Bishop of Cluain Fearta. She spent her time diligently serving the Lord, performing wonders and miracles, healing every disease and every malady, as her Life relates, until she resigned her spirit to heaven, the first day of the month of February; and her body was interred at Dun, in the same tomb with Patrick, with honour and veneration.
February 1, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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In the first UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post of 2026 Ailbe Van Der Heide of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social describes the folklore and traditions surrounding sheep.

Read: ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/01/29/t...

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Black and white photo: Sheep flock, Co. Wicklow. Photographer: Maurice Curtin, 1936, NFC B014.10.00002
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Show your research data on a map using Datawrapper: in this free hands-on workshop you'll learn to create a #ChoroplethMap to display your statistical data by colour or pattern for geographic areas.

📆Wed, 4 Feb 3.30pm
📍Health Sciences Library

Register on our Training page at bit.ly/datawrapper26.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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UCD Library #OpenAccess Publishing Agreements update!

🔺new agreement with publisher De Gruyter Brill
🔺renewal of AIP (American Institute of Physics) deal - now includes all AIP journals & unlimited APC quota.

See libguides.ucd.ie/oapublishing...

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January 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Join the Gale Publishing team on Fri, 6 Feb for an online look at the historical archives of 'The Financial Times' and the 'Economist', resources brought to you by UCD Library.

This is just 1 of 3 webinars exploring Gale databases with the experts.
Register for the 1st (6 Feb) at bit.ly/gale6feb.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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In the first UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post of 2026 Ailbe Van Der Heide of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social describes the folklore and traditions surrounding sheep.

Read: ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/01/29/t...

@ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social
Black and white photo: Sheep flock, Co. Wicklow. Photographer: Maurice Curtin, 1936, NFC B014.10.00002
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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UCD Library #OpenAccess Publishing Agreements update!

🔺new agreement with publisher De Gruyter Brill
🔺renewal of AIP (American Institute of Physics) deal - now includes all AIP journals & unlimited APC quota.

See libguides.ucd.ie/oapublishing...

@ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social
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January 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Love Data Week!
Join ISSDA's webinar discussing the documentation needed to understand data. Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/issda-loves-data-documentation-tickets-1981131678180?aff=oddtdtcreator
#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive #LoveData26
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January 29, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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We're delighted to announce another fantastic keynote speaker for #ASL2026! @ucclibrary.bsky.social University Librarian @lizjolly.bsky.social will join us on 24th March in @ria.ie to share her insights around the theme 'Reimagining Librarianship.' Book your conference tickets now at aslibraries.ie
Academic & Special Libraries Conference. 24th March 2026 RIA, Dublin. Keynote speaker: Liz Jolly, UCC University Librarian. Reimagining Librarianship: purpose, practice and possibility. #ASL2026
January 29, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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The UCD Writing Centre turned 10!🥳 Last evening saw a gathering of students & staff in the James Joyce Library to mark the occasion, with remarks by Centre Manager Zeljka Doljanin, Prof. Fionnuala Dillane & UCD Registrar & Deputy President Colin Scott. #UCDWritingCentre10

www.ucd.ie/writingcentre
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January 28, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Join the Gale Publishing team on Fri, 6 Feb for an online look at the historical archives of 'The Financial Times' and the 'Economist', resources brought to you by UCD Library.

This is just 1 of 3 webinars exploring Gale databases with the experts.
Register for the 1st (6 Feb) at bit.ly/gale6feb.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Great to read about the achievements of CESSDA and all CESSDA’s Service Providers presented in the recent CESSDA KPI 2020-2024 report. See the full report here: zenodo.org/records/1785...
#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive
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CESSDA KPI report 2020-024
www.ucd.ie
January 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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The UCD community is invited to join us on Thurs, 5th Feb in the JJL for a lunchtime talk by Hilary Hanahoe @researchdataall.bsky.social (RDA), where she will present on the results of an RDA global research community consultation related to #AI.

Register at buff.ly/ZPupMwi
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January 26, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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This UCD Cultural Heritage Blog post from last year discusses Julius Pokorny's plea to Eoin MacNeill, Conn R. Ó Cléirigh and Liam S. Gógan for assistance when he fell afoul of the racist Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

#HolocaustRemembranceDay

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January 27, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Interested in new data releases, training events and updates to our service? Sign up to our newsletter at the link below:

www.ucd.ie/issda/issdan...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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The UCD community is invited to join us on Thurs, 5th Feb in the JJL for a lunchtime talk by Hilary Hanahoe @researchdataall.bsky.social (RDA), where she will present on the results of an RDA global research community consultation related to #AI.

Register at buff.ly/ZPupMwi
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January 26, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Browse our free workshops and seminars scheduled for the Spring Trimester. Most workshops are held in-person and all are lead by librarians! You can register for the first few now; others will be available to book soon.

See the full calendar at hub.ucd.ie/usis/W_HU_ME...

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January 23, 2026 at 10:25 AM