Time for MY FAVOURITE PANEL 🎉🎉🎉 My Life in Books facilitated by the brilliant Pat Lonergan with Eimear Ní Bhraonáin, John Connell and Rachael English! #LAIBooktotheFuture25 @laibluesky.bsky.social

Now we have Damien Brady, Limerick City & County Librarian, speaking on a recent study trip to libraries in the Netherlands. #laibooktothefuture25 @laibluesky.bsky.social

Next we have Michelle Breen taking us through the Library Labour Market Taskforce. #LAIBooktotheFuture @laibluesky.bsky.social @michellebreen.bsky.social

Our first panel of the day is on the battle for truth in the Age of AI with Eimear Ní Bhraonáin, @jackmccarronkk.bsky.social, Rob Brown and @ntanzi.bsky.social @laibluesky.bsky.social #LAIBooktotheFuture25

Who better to open the last day of the Public Libraries conference than our Laureate Éilís Ní Dhuibhne who is tracing our storytelling and writing past! #LAIBooktotheFuture25 @laibluesky.bsky.social

Dobbo is in the house! Our next panel is led by Byran Dobson and features Brian Gallagher, Ashwin Chacko and Kathleen MacMahon. This panel will be celebrating writing in a time of rapid technological change #laibooktothefuture25 @laibluesky.bsky.social

Faye Carrie speaking on the Resisting Hate and Navigating Agitation report; focused on library staff perspectives of the reactionary responses to LGBTQIA+ materials. Brilliant to see a period of time which affected so many library workers so thoughtfully investigated #LAIBooktotheFuture25

We're delighted to have Debbie Hicks,creative director of the @readingagency.bsky.social to speak on changing lives through reading! From the worrying picture recent reports on reading present to the opportunities & challenges this presents to Libraries #LAIBooktotheFuture25 @laibluesky.bsky.social

Fascinating & hilarious talk from @ntanzi.bsky.social Libraries & AI by way of the twilight zone & the idea that a book is a vessel- a delivery mechanism. Change is a feature of our service and providing access & information is part of our commitment to digital equity #LAIBooktotheFuture25

Our opening address at the Public Libraries conference is from Lorna Dodd, President of the Library Association of Ireland. Lorna spoke to the future of public libraries as they embrace change and consider their future paths #Laibooktothefuture25

It's the first proper day of the Library Association of Ireland Public Libraries conference. The table quiz rivalries of last night have been put to bed and we're heading into a day of amazing speakers! #LAIBooktotheFuture25

So grateful to Jennie Loughran, @lorimoriarty.bsky.social, @clairebyrne.bsky.social and @rteradio1.bsky.social for featuring Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee, by @unawoods.bsky.social and me. Skip to 1:47 for the books segment! @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Very excited for this year's LAI Public Libraries Conference #LAIBooktothefuture25 #libraries #librariesireland

Things that give me hope at the moment: -Pedro Pascal for Vanity Fair -Libraries

Will the library printer print today...

Happy May Day to all who celebrate but also to those who forgot it was the 1st of May and ended up trying to subtly "wash" your face in "dew" from the patch of grass outside the school gates because of the superstitious feeling that you'd make your dead granny sad by not doing it...

Tá meantóirí deonacha Gaeilge fós á lorg againn ag Fighting Words le cabhrú linn ceardlanna a reáchtáil! Ní gá go mbeadh tú líofa le hobair linn, tá míle fáilte romhaibh foghlaimeoirí fásta freisin 🫶🏾 Má spéis leat, le do thoil bí i dteagmháil! ✨️

There are rumours that the library even features in the book!!!! #laoislibraries

Not going to make an AI version of a librarian as per the trend. Just imagine a slightly disheveled person with a pocket of elastic bands/glitter/pens(and at least one beverage stain) talking about the latest book release while googling a paper craft & not looking directly at the printer #libraries

Fascinating opening to day 2 of the #LAICILIPIre25 morning from @aphrak.bsky.social on how we need to think about the ethics and literacy needed to navigate AI responsibly.

Kinsale library you beaut! What an amazing building ❤️ #LAICILIPIre2025

Fab talk from Joseph Peelo about his work with the JCSP LIbrary project and School Completion Project in creating a Comic book club. I love hearing about programmes centring Reading for Enjoyment #LAICILIPIRE25 @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Delighted to be at the LAI CILIP library conference in Cork. Inspiring welcome from Eileen Morrissey, the President of the LAI & a mind-blowing talk from @pierstorday.bsky.social about sustainability in publishing. Obsessed with the new innovations in typeface with sustainable serif #laicilipire25

Today is #TolkienReadingDay which explains why I feel like butter scraped over too much bread...

Had to go watch my comfort film franchise tonight to recover from Ferdia Lennon's début novel #fastandfurious 😭❤️ @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social

Did my entire family dress up to go watch Gladiator 2? Yup we did! Was it the highlight of the cinema trip? Also yup. #gladiator2

Post a pic of yourself to show the newbies what they're dealing with

A briefly snowy day today at work. Startled many people by wearing crocs and also chatted to a few people about our upcoming book club meeting (it's going to be a fiery one!)

Absolutely amazing book review training from Children's Books Ireland tonight! Julia Eccleshare spoke for over an hour and it was inspiring, helpful, practical and wonderful! What an absolute legend! #bookreviewing

Went for the perfect autumn walk today with my dog and audiobook and it was divine!

I seem to have more followers than people I follow which is weird for me! I am trying to catch up on here and understand how it works so if I didn't follow back I'm sorry.

So in love with the Mayfair Library in Kilkenny after today! The work of the Kilkenny Library service to mark the Kilkenny Witch Trials was Epic #kilkennywitchtrial #toilandtrouble #libraries

Thanks for this work Anna! Lovely to follow some Irish content on here!

'Chat gpt isn't the Messiah it's just a very pretty technology' loved this from journalist Barry McCall today at the Irish Public Libraries Conference! An interesting positive take on the use of AI for Libraries! #LAIPLC2024 #LibrariesIreland

Ok after a talk from @nedpotter.bsky.social at the Irish Public Libraries Conference I'm going to try here again! How're the library and bookish people getting on? #libraries #books #dowehashtag

‘A fascinating documentary’s about the hidden stories behind eight lesbian couples during Ireland’s revolutionary years’. Croíthe Radacacha/Radical Hearts ⁦‪@TG4TV‬⁩, Dec 6th, 9.30pm. #irishwmnhist #skystorians #history #lgbthistories #queerfemininities www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Starting off my first year of Book elving with my current obsession by Sarah Bowie- Kevin's in a Mood. A hilarious & inclusive story on negotiating feelings with funny & vivid illustrations. #BookElves2023 #OBrienPress #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks #LateLateToyShow #RTELateLateShow

Are you a primary school teacher in Dublin? Would your students like to name our #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks dog? Details of how they can enter our new competition to name her coming soon!

Honestly? Same...

Irish Children's Book Challenge Day 4 A book published this year #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks #DIKBChallenge23 Created by Ruth Ennis Milly McCarthy and the Irish Dancing Disaster by Leona Forde and Karen Harte as it's fresh, funny & V Irish! Age 7+ Perfect for Dork Diary or Wimpy Kids fans.

Does anyone on here teach true crime at a university or college? Could you let me know? And if so, would a “companion to true crime” type book be useful? Please share!

Loving doing this challenge for work (Laois Libraries) but would also love to do a version of this where you can only answer the prompts with books from your childhood #retrobookchallenge

I win the ultimate cozy vibes contest surely? #stormagnes

The funniest outcome from the AI thing would be if they can only use out-of-copyright works to train the models, and so we end up with a class of incredibly powerful artificial intelligences that all talk like Victorian pamphleteers.

I'm so excited to have announced the #DiscoverIrishChildrensBooks challenge for the month of October! Anyone can join in, all you have to do is share a book by an Irish or Ireland-based author/illustrators in response to the prompt for the day. Can't wait to see what books you pick out!

Going to talk about libraries to over a hundred first years at the local secondary school... my husband says I'm dressed like a cross between Fleetwood Mac (the whole band) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the album) and I've never felt so seen in my life ❤️

I second this motion!

it is their turn

Mary did you contribute to the TG4 doc on the Ladies of Llangollen? Really looking forward to it! @marymcauliffe.bsky.social