Award-winning author Christine Dwyer Hickey joins us for tonight's @dublincityuni.bsky.social Book Club. She will be discussing her novel Our London Lives with Linda Richardson and the #DCUBookClub audience

And congrats to Emma from @dculibrary.bsky.social for winning the Teaching Support Award! 👏

DCU Library's wonderful Emma Stapleton won the award for teaching support at the DCU President's Award For Teaching! Huge congratulations to Emma on this incredible achievement - we're so proud 🎉 @dublincityuni.bsky.social

We're delighted to be hosting Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access in O'Reilly Library @dublincityuni.bsky.social today. Andy Byers from @openlibhums.org welcomes attendees to a full day of talks exploring how users and community inform Janeway's development

We had a fantastic evening at our annual DCU Library Creative Writing Competition! Orla Nic Aodha welcomed the audience to Cregan Library last night and congratulated the eleven finalists, who are members of writing groups based in North Dublin.

It's our favourite night of the year: our annual Creative Writing Competition Awards! Excitement (and nerves) are building in Cregan library, and we're looking forward to a night of great stories and poems from our shortlisted writers ✍ 📚 dcu.libguides.com/c.php?g=711896

We're looking forward to seeing you at the annual DCU Library Creative Writing Competition in Cregan Library at 6pm tomorrow! Running since 1999 the competition celebrates the work of members of North Dublin writing groups. Find out more at www.dcu.ie/dcu-communit...

Open Research helps make research clearer, more transparent, and easier to build on. Check out this video, from DCU Open Research, where Dr Eddie McGuinness and Dr Sinéad McNally share how it’s shaped their own work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrI0... More info about Open Research here: bit.ly/4wOzTzV

Congratulations to the students from Dominican College Griffith Avenue, St Vincent's Secondary School and Trinity Comprehensive who took part in our History in Your Hands project this year! Prizes were awarded to nine students for their history research study reports at an awards ceremony yesterday.

Colm and Emily from our help desk team took part in a LIR digital skills workshop on creating a podcast, submitted a final piece to the LIR Group for review, and took second place in their competition! HUGE congratulations to both 🥳 @dublincityuni.bsky.social @lirheanet.bsky.social

🚨 The programme is now live for The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing 🚨 📅 21–22 May 2026 📍 Dublin City University Library 💻 Online registration still open Register: lnkd.in/dwsdHqDN #JanewayOA26 @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Last night, DCU Library was delighted to celebrate the launch of The Policeman’s Helmet Soup Journal, a new undergraduate open access journal developed in collaboration with the School of English. Read more about it here: bit.ly/4nB2Vih @dublincityuni.bsky.social

From Tuesday, May 5th, Woodlock Hall will be operating on Summer hours: 9:30am - 1:30pm, Monday to Friday Full opening hours for all three libraries: www.dcu.ie/library/open...

Just a reminder that we will be closed on Monday 4th May for the bank holiday Full opening hours up until May 31st available on our website: www.dcu.ie/library/open... May the 4th be with you all! #MayBankHoliday #MayTheFouth #MayThe4th @dublincityuni.bsky.social

We're happy to report that the lift in Cregan Library is working again. The 1st floor bathrooms and some teaching resources and study areas are still unavailable. Please ask at the help desk if you need any assistance - thank you for your patience.

Join us for the 2026 National Drop Everything and Read Challenge at 12 today! Borrow one of the books from our DCU Book Club displays in our Cregan and O'Reilly Libraries and bury your head in a brilliant book at noon. More details at dropeverythingandread.ie #LetsGetIrelandReading #DEARIrl

A burst pipe in Cregan library means toilets are closed except on the 3rd floor (F Block also available). The lift is also out of order. Some first‑floor teaching resources and study spaces are unavailable, please ask at the help desk for any assistance as we work to resolve these issues asap!

We welcome DCU Writer-in-Residence Colin Barrett to the DCU Book Club in Belvedere Library this evening. The award-winning author is discussing his novel Wild Houses with Darran McCann from @dublincityuni.bsky.social's School of English.

The DCU Library Leaving Certificate study Scheme is back! Come and study for the big exams in one of our beautiful libraries from 11th May to 23rd June. Spots are free and open to all Leaving Certificate students but you must register in advance: tinyurl.com/4j5kckas @dublincityuni.bsky.social

CALLING ALL LEAVING CERT STUDENTS! Looking for a masterclass in H.L. English, Irish or Maths to give you the tips, tricks, tactics and the confidence you need to sit the big three this summer? We've got you covered! 6/7/8 May Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/3rrnpn6c @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Just 1 week to go until we welcome Booker prize-nominated author Colin Barrett to DCU Book Club! This is a free event, but you must register to attend: tinyurl.com/3j6wvtex

Wonderful launch for our new IBBY 2024 Hans Christian Andersen collection. Thanks to all who came to celebrate! The exhibition can be viewed at Cregan library until April 15th. @dculibrary.bsky.social View the library guide for the exhibition created by DCU's MA students: dcu.libguides.com/HCAA

The Dublin Literary Award 2026 Shortlist is here! 🎉 Congratulations to Ali Smith, Magdalena Blažević, Brigitte Giraud, Laurent Binet, Ocean Vuong and Éric Chacour! 👉 Visit https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/prize-years/2026/ to explore these six outstanding novels.

Feeling stressed about all those overdue library books? Just drop them back to us, you won't be fined, no matter how late they are! #finefreeforever #overduebooks 📚 Comic from: jake likes onions

Here we see staff from our Special Collections & Archives preparing for Easter Sunday. (Just kidding! Its just a Roman child-eating goblin, we think, from Decimus Junius Juvenalis and Aulus Persius Flaccus; Oxford 1673.) Happy Easter! #dcusca

Ahead of our launch of the IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Collection @dculibrary.bsky.social on International Children's Book Day tomorrow, read about what it is and how it started in my blog post share.google/KRpkkFOvrkkM...

Happy One Dublin One Book month to all who celebrate! We can't wait to get reading Christine Falls by John Banville, and have put together a display of our collection of chosen books from years past downstairs at Cregan Library @dublincityuni.bsky.social @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

Policeman's Helmet Soup - a new undergraduate journal containing the final year research of students in BA Joint Honours and Bachelor of Religious Education programmes - is out now! A joint venture between the School of English and DCU Library Read issue 1: phsjournal.ie @dublincityuni.bsky.social

The decorated DCU Writer in residence Colin Barrett will join us for a Book Club event hosted by Dr Darren McCann to discuss his Booker Prize Longlisted novel 'Wild Houses' on Thursday 16th April. RSVP for free: tinyurl.com/3j6wvtex @dublincityuni.bsky.social

From Friday, April 3rd to Monday, Cregan & O'Reilly libraries are open for study only. This means there is no Library Help Desk service. Books can be borrowed and returned using self-service machines. Access with DCU ID card ONLY. Daily Access Cards will not be issued. www.dcu.ie/library/open...

Applications are open for the cross-disciplinary MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies in DCU. This is a postgraduate programme drawing on the latest research in the fields of literary and cultural studies, communications, politics, law, history, and philosophy.

Colin Barrett @colinbarrett.bsky.social, DCU Writer in Residence 2026, will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his debut novel 'Wild Houses' on Thursday, the 16th of April. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/4rPWqs6 @dculibrary.bsky.social

Well done to our social media superstars Grace O'Connor and Áine Brennan who showed everyone that there's life after Twitter at the Academic & Special Libraries Conference in the @ria.ie today #ASL2026

Always a highlight on the conference calendar, we're at #ASL2026 today in @ria.ie, looking forward to being inspired by some fantastic speakers!

Kevin Curran discusses his novel Youth at this month's #DCUBookClub in Belvedere Library @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Discover books from our collection from around the globe, take home free books, and try out our new exercise desks for your chance to win free gym membership at Around The World In 80 Books TODAY at the O'Reilly Library Lounge, 1pm. Kindly funded by @dublincityuni.bsky.social 's QuID funding.

An Irish Oscar winner AND a public holiday tomorrow - consider us both excira and delira! We're closed tomorrow and open again Wednesday www.dcu.ie/library/open.... Thanks to our Special Collections and Archives team for this image of St Patrick from a 1624 anthology of stories of Irish saints.

Join us for our brilliant 'Around the World in 80 Books' event in the O'Reilly Library Lounge on Thursday 19th March from 1-3 pm! The person who cycles the furthest distance in 90 seconds on one of our new bike desks will win a DCU gym membership for the year.

Tá dhá thaispeántas againn i Leabharlann Uí Chriagáin do @snagaeilge.bsky.social! Tugann 'Léigh Linn' ónár Shainchnuasaigh & Cartlann turas treoirithe trí leabhar Ghaeilge do pháistí. Tá 'An Focal Gaeilge is Fearr Liom' le dhaltaí ó St Patrick's NS agus Corpus Christi NS le feiceáil freisin.

Bhí Rang 2 ó Grace Park ETNS linn sa leabharlann inné chun Seachtain na Gaeilge a cheiliúradh. Léigh Siobhán Seoighe ó Oifig na Gaeilge DCU an leabhar 'Cuir ort do hata' dóibh agus ansin dhear siad a hataí féin - maith sibh! @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Bhí am iontach againn le St Patrick's NS agus Corpus Christi NS inniu mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge. In éindí le hOifig na Gaeilge i DCU d'imir muid biongó & tharraing siad pictiúr den fhocal Gaeilge is fearr leo! @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Images from the first Women in Technology & Science Conference at DCU in Nov 1990. WITS, founded by Mary Mulvihill that year, supported women in STEM. The Mary Mulvihill papers are now preserved in DCU Library Special Collections #InternationalWomensDay @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us as readers and books for The Human Library yesterday! Our 'readers' borrowed human 'books' who have experienced prejudice in their lives. Their open conversations with the books aim to challenge bias and build understanding, helping them to 'unjudge' them.

The Ulysses Book Club held its final session in @dublincityuni.bsky.social last night. Huge thanks to Jennifer Whelan and Claire Devlin whose insights into Joyce's writing and Dublin's history made the journey through Ulysses so enjoyable. Thanks to DCU Arts and Culture for a brilliant initiative!

Join us tomorrow for The Human Library from 2-4.30pm It’s all about open, honest conversation in a safe space to help us all "unjudge" someone. RSVP: dcu.ie/library/human-library-dcu @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Kevin Curran will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Youth' on Thursday, the 19th of March. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3NbsKrf @dculibrary.bsky.social

The DCU Library My Original Book Character Competition exhibition will run until 10/3 both outside and inside Cregan Library! 400+ entrants designed their own book characters & winners picked by Clíodhna Noonan, the CPYA Artist in Residence with @dcuioe.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Wendy Erskine joins us for the @dublincityuni.bsky.social Book Club tonight to discuss her novel The Benefactors with @orlanicaodha.bsky.social from DCU Library and our book club audience #DCUBookClub

The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is February's DCU Book Club book of choice! Join us for a conversation with the author and a Q&A, tomorrow 6.30pm at Belvedere Library Free entry, all welcome RSVP: www.eventbrite.ie/e/dcu-book-c... @dublincityuni.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social

These quaint sketches illustrating dance etiquette will help you impress your beloved this #ValentinesDay. This guide from the Kildare Place Society will help you hone your dance moves, conduct an effective 'tête-à-tête' and manage bouts of fainting.