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A&SL 2017 CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION PROGRAMME
DAY 2 FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2017 (CONTINUED)
Time Session Presenter(s) Location
A&SL 2017 CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION PROGRAMME
DAY 2 FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2017 (CONTINUED)
Time Session Presenter(s) Location
10.40-11.00 LIGHTNING TALKS
The sociable librarian: connecting &
creating communities
Marching together in an academic
world: project collaboration between the
libraries in IT Carlow and the Defence
Forces
11.00-11.30 Refreshments, networking with
colleagues, sponsors & exhibitors,
visiting the poster session
11.30-12.00 The National Library of Ireland: building
and promoting the Irish web archive
Frank Brady & Pauline
Murray, Maynooth
University
Simon Perry, IT Carlow, &
Sue Ramsbottom, Defence
Forces
Maria Ryan, National
Library of Ireland
Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
Goldsmith Hall 3
Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
12.00-12.10 Platinum Sponsor Talk IEEE Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
15.25-15.55 Make a connection: be social with your
collection
15.55-16.15 LIGHTNING TALKS
“The only thing that you absolutely have
to know is the location of the library.” –
Albert Einstein. Bringing the library to
the student using an online marketing
tool
Librarians Aloud: creating a DIY podcast
to amplify librarian voices
16.15-16.30 Poster Prize / Best Tweet Prize / Sponsor
Quiz Prize / Wrap up and Close
Liam Wylie, RTÉ Archives Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
Sarah-Anne Kennedy,
Dublin Institute of
Technology
Laura Rooney-Ferris,
Irish Hospice Foundation,
& Michael Ferris, Bar of
Ireland
Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
12.15-12.45 PARALLEL CASE STUDIES (CHOOSE 1)
You are listening to Shush! Sounds from
UCC Library and that track there was
Heaven knows I’m miserable now
The critical role of the librarian in
the development of a critical skills
community of practice
Better together: your village and your
voice
13.00-14.15 Lunch
Networking with colleagues, sponsors &
exhibitors, visiting the poster exhibition
14.15-15.15 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (CHOOSE 1)
Café conversations: using a World Café
as a means to facilitate creative ideas in
customer care
CoderDojo and libraries: why your library
should get involved and how to start your
own Dojo
Martin O’Connor & Ronan
Madden, University College
Cork
Lorna Dodd, Maynooth
University
Aoife Connolly, PwC, &
Margaret Irons, School of
Celtic Studies, DIAS
Laura Connaughton,
Maynooth University
Mark Ward, South Dublin
Libraries
Swift Suite
Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
Field Suite
V’n V Restaurant
Goldsmith Hall 3
Field Suite
Swift Suite
POSTER EXHIBITION
Conference posters are displayed in the Poster Exhibition Area. Don’t forget to vote for your
favourite!
Voting forms are included in your conference pack. Completed forms should be submitted in the
box in the main conference room (Goldsmith 1 & 2). Voting closes just after lunch on Friday, 17th
February with the winner announced later that afternoon.
The prize for the best Poster is a €100.00 One-for-All voucher!
POSTER PRESENTER / ORGANISATION
Yvette Campbell, Maynooth University
Bernadette Gardiner, Maynooth University
POSTER TITLE
Cataloguing our written heritage: sharing the Fermoy
Gaelic manuscripts at Maynooth University
Why enter for a library award, bursary or prize?
Anne M. O’Byrne, Rotunda Hospital Development of “Rotunda Birth of a Nation” 1916
exhibition at the Rotunda Hospital
Lessons learned in creating e-learning
guides for a law firm
Esther Walsh, William Fry
Goldsmith Hall 1 & 2
Seamus Ryan, Kevin O’Hanlon & Clare Bount,
Waterford Institute of Technology
WIT Libraries creating social spaces
Laura Zaliene, Genevieve Larkin & Marta Bustillo, LAI
Career Development Group
The LAI’s Career Development Group: creating a
community of practice
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