Today we are pleased to bring the first of three blog posts by our #CONUL25 Bursary Award winners. Today's post is written by Michelle McMeekin, Senior Library Assistant in Queen's University, Belfast.
www.libfocus.com/2025/06/conu...

@conulconference.bsky.social 2025 is the gift that keeps giving! Look who arrived to @ullibrary.bsky.social - Thanks @technologyfromsage.bsky.social

Digital Archivist // RCSI Library (Dublin 2) @rcsilibrary.bsky.social
#LISjobsIE #libraryjobs #jobfairy
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We are thinking about the question "How open should we be?", particularly regarding AI. Oxford are piloting a collaboration with OpenAI, which completes in the Autumn, looking at
- if it can help with workload (think card catalogues!)
- work regarding existing datasets
- scaled digitisation

Why preserve?

"Libraries & Archives = Essential Infrastructure for Democracy" @richove.bsky.social

- education
- reference points for facts and truth
- preserve the rights of citizens
- diversity of information
- a sense of identity

We are delighted to share our Annual Report for 2024 with members and the general public!

This report details work by our team in 2024, including: training and engagement activities, repository technical developments, policy development and funded research projects.

More: dri.ie/news/dri-pub...

Looking forward to Richard Ovenden's keynote speech tomorrow #CONUL25

NORFest 2025 – Call for Proposals is LIVE! 📣

Ireland's National Open Research Festival encourages submissions of lightning talks and interactive workshops that will spark curiosity and inspire action in #OpenResearch. #OpenScience #FAIR

🗓️ Submit your proposal at norf.ie/irelands-nat...

Applications for our Leaving Certificate Study scheme are now open. Leaving cert students who would like to use the Glucksman Library to study from 22 May - June 24 should apply online www.ul.ie/library/leav...

📣 (Re)introducing DARIAH-IE 📣
Join us for this online seminar, reintroducing DARIAH-IE and reconnecting Irish scholars with DARIAH, the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities !
📅 May 27th
🕒 11am (GMT)
📍 Register tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📣 Announcing the launch of Digital Preservation Terminology: an Irish Language Glossary for Repositories and Archivists.

This landmark glossary establishes a standardised set of 68 Irish-language terms for digital preservation, developed by DRI with @gaois.bsky.social.

More: dri.ie/news/dri-lau...

Librarian // Poetry Ireland (Dublin 1) @poetryireland.bsky.social #LISjobsIE #libraryjobs #jobfairy
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The #CONUL25 Conference Programme is now live! Please visit conference.conul.ie/programme-20... for more information. You can also find more information about our keynote speakers, Anne Jarvis and @richove.bsky.social, on our website.

Can you believe it's only 1 month to go until #CONUL25? To get you ready for the big event, here are some photos from previous conferences.

And don't forget, standard registration fees end this week!

conference.conul.ie/registration...