✨ Move with Nature: Imbolc at Girley Bog ✨ 🕰️ Sunday 01 Feb, 11.00am-12.30pm 🎟️Book on Eventbrite. Free of charge, but places limited: imbolcatgirleybog.eventbrite.ie @patagonia.com #WorldWetlandsDay #GirleyBog #Brigid #Imbolc

Reports: Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions www.infodocket.com/2026/01/15/r... #libraries #speciallibraries

Our staff were at the JOC on Maritime Affairs and Fisheries today to discuss Marine Protected Areas & the designation of our IBAs for seabirds as SPAs. Read our statement here birdwatchireland.ie/app/uploads/...

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📣 Abstract Deadline Extended! 🗓️ New deadline: 19th Jan @ 10am 🎤 Theme: Celebrating Our Collective Power: Finding Strength in Difference If you’ve been thinking about submitting, now’s your chance to share your work & perspective with our community. Don't delay, submit today. hslg.ie/category/eve...

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

The next event at #CILIPMembersFest26 is ‘AI literacy across library sectors’. This panel discussion by key industry speakers explores their experiences of AI in the workplace, key issues & concerns with AI in their sector, and much more. 📅 Monday 2 March Book now 👉 https://ow.ly/L0Aj50XVq3r

Kildare University academic to lead first All-Island mental health research network. Daragh Nolan, Leinster Leader. CO-PRIME: set up to help combat mental ill health across Ireland, will be headed up by Professor Sinead McGilloway, Maynooth University www.leinsterleader.ie/news/local-n...

The LAI/CILIP Conference will take place on Wednesday the 29th and Thursday the 30th of April in Monaghan at the stunning new Peace Campus. The Call for Papers and Conference theme will be announced soon! We are really looking forward to another wonderful conference!

Today is the anniversary of Oíche na Gaoithe Móire - the Night of the Big Wind, 1839, the worst natural disaster in Irish history. Did the terror and the psychological damage of the night feed into the language-shift in Ireland? Grateful for shares!👍 irishlanguagematters.com/oiche-na-gao...

Free Kildare climate course to feature special guest All six sessions will be held inside Naas Library. From: Kildare Now @kildarenow.bsky.social By Ciarán Mather 05 Jan 2026 @kildarelibrary.bsky.social www.kildarenow.com/news/local-n...

Happy new year from Special Collections & Archives! Kicking it off with a guest blog - 'Cataloguing musical material in the Russell Library', with thanks to MA student of Performance and Musicology, Caterina Mirtsios, who shares her discoveries here: mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com

Join us for this year's HSLG conference on "Celebrating Our Collective Power: Finding Strength in Difference.” Our diverse values, priorities, and ways of working strengthen health libraries—driving new ideas and innovation. 🗓️March 12th 2026 🏨Ashling Hotel, Dublin 🎫 eventbrite.ie/e/celebratin...

Our first guest post of 2026 is from the editorial team of the Health Sciences Libraries Journal. They highlight the articles featured in the latest issue of the journal and share details about the deadlines for the Summer 2026 issues. www.libfocus.com

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. It's sci-fi, it's cataloguing, it has everything! 😃 www.isfdb.org "The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data...[]"

Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest. The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment Please read and take action 👇

Voiceless and vulnerable, Brent geese find themselves blamed for Irish building delays. By Ella McSweeney in the Irish Times today, and featuring research by ecologist Dr Lorraine Benson of @birdwatchireland.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/... #nature

Nature Connection: Members-only Writing Competition ✍️ We have extended the deadline to Wednesday 7 January at midnight! T&Cs and entry form here ⤵️ iwt.ie/nature_writi... Top prize: an eco stay at Native Ballydehob, in the wilds of West Cork www.native.ie

The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets While dodging accusations of communism, Charlotte Serber made the nuclear bomb possible. by Michael Waters June 23, 2017 @atlasobscura.com #medlibs www.atlasobscura.com/articles/man...

Despite the frosty weather recently, some Winter Heliotrope (Petasites pyrenaicus/ Petasites fragrans; or Plúr na Gréine) braved the cold to flower at the seaside walk at Portmarnock, Dublin today #WildflowerHour

SHOUT: Sharing Hints, Outcomes and Useful Techniques Mary Dunne @hrblibrarians.bsky.social draws together some of the excellent knowledge and information that our international colleagues have recently produced. Read it here👇https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj/article/view/4650/6736

The Dark is Rising podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... adapted by Simon McBurney and Robert Macfarlane for the BBC World Service from Susan Cooper's novel. Produced by Complicité and Catherine Bailey Productions

Career paths aren’t always linear. Read all about Ian Feerick's road to becoming Tusla's First Librarian 🎆 A great example of how exploring your interests can open entirely new doors. 📚✨ journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj #hslg #medlibs

Behind every evidence-based decision is a medical librarian! This “day in the life” is a must-read. 📚🩺 Alex Henigman gives us a snapshot of her day in the Dept. of Family & Community Medicine at University of Missouri-Columbia 👉 journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hs... #hslg #medlibs

Meet Marcia Crocker Noyes: a founding member of the MLA 📚@medlibassn.bsky.social and a pioneer who led Maryland's MedChi for 50+ years (1890s–1946). A true giant in her field. 👇 🔗https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj/article/view/4713

Greater clarity for future environmental management of Heavily Modified Water Bodies. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Ireland 18 Dec 2025 www.gov.ie/en/departmen... Following detailed technical assessments & public consultations, Ireland is designating 466 water bodies as HMWBs

It's worth cataloguing what has happened in the water world in the last few weeks alone. It paints a picture of a Government who are not at all prioritising the health of our waterways, and who are failing on multiple fronts to put in place the measures we actually need. A watery rant 🧵

We are seeking to recruit an experienced Office Manager with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, with line-management and customer service experience. A background in the finance or charity sector would be advantageous. Full details at birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...

In our final guest post of 2025, Bennery Rickard @hselive.bsky.social looks at #HSELibraryDay which took place on 24 September 2025. Careful planning and promotion resulted in 50 events across the country highlighting libraries and librarians in the health service. www.libfocus.com

And that’s a wrap on the #HSEOAAwards25 🎉 Thank you to everyone who submitted, attended and supported this year’s #OpenAccess Research Awards. Congratulations to all our winners! Read the winning papers on LENUS 👉 https://www.lenus.ie#HSEOAAwards25

Cherry, Jonathan, Ó Raghallaigh, Brian, Ó Maoileoin, Diarmaid and Murphy, Kate (2025) Minor placenames in Ireland: a guide to promoting and facilitating ‘citizen humanities’ in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Project Report. DCU. doras.dcu.ie/32035/ #CitizenHumanities

BirdWatch Ireland is hiring a Marine Advocacy and Campaigns Officer to help secure a better future for Ireland's seabirds. Deadline 5pm Jan 7th 2026 for applications and cover letter. Full details including job description is here birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved... (pic Brenda Sheridan)

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We’re looking to hire a Communications Officer💧📣 💙 Want to join the team? 💙 💧€30,400 – €34,400 for 4 days per week 💧 Apply by January 18th 💧Job description: swanireland.ie/about-us/wor... #IrishJobs #jobfairy #GreenJobs #ConservationJobs

Lived experience isn't a footnote - its the core of professional practice. Maeve Kerin’s @tudublin.bsky.social reflective article explores how navigating a library role with a visible difference (CFND) shapes service through empathy and self-awareness. 🔗 journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj #hslg

There was an 8% decrease in the number of drug poisoning deaths in 2022 compared to the previous year according to latest figures from the Health Research Board.

In the current issue of JEAHIL, Aoife Lawton, National Health Service Librarian, has a lovely memorial article on Dr Beatrice Doran and her tremendous legacy. Remembering Dr. Beatrice Doran. J Eur Assoc Health Info Libr. 2025 Dec. 12; 21(4): 29-30. ojs.eahil.eu/JEAHIL/artic... #MedLibs #EAHIL

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Discover The Anatomy 💀 of a Journal: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How! 🧠📚 In 2025, the HSLG became publishers—yes, really! We break down every step of building a free, professional journal and why it matters for our community. journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hs...

I'm thrilled to share that Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library's Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) has been published as an Open Educational Resource on QUT Pressbooks. doi.org/10.5204/OGWN... #AIRS #QUT #QUTLibrary #QUTHDR #QUTResearch

💼 Digital Learning Services Officer in @ucclibrary.bsky.social 📅 noon, Tuesday, 13th January 2026 🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #LISjobsIE

With our Irish Garden Bird Survey now well into its second week, we thought you might like to know some of the collective nouns used to describe flocks of our feathered friends: birdwatchireland.ie/collective-n...

New FREE webinar from the U-M Taubman Library! December 15 - "Developing Systematic Search Skills: Peer-to-Peer Learning with Practice Sets" More info: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks... #medlibs #SystematicReviews #ExpertSearching #SystematicSearching #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis

Ross-White A. Search is a verb: systematic review searching as invisible labor. J Med Libr Assoc. 2021 Jul 1;109(3):505-506. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2021.1226. PMID: 34629983; PMCID: PMC8485967.

Comparison between RoB-1 and RoB-2 tool and impact on network meta-analysis results – a case study from a living Cochrane review on psoriasis - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

GRADE guidance 44: Strategies to enhance the utilization of randomized and non-randomized studies in evidence syntheses of health interventions - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Repair Café at Leixlip Library in partnership with Kildare County Council Climate Action Office Saturday 13 December Book a 30 minute slot with the library and bring: • Clothes and accessories • Toys • Small electrical appliances and electronics More info and booking links www.tog.ie/2025/12/repa...

☕💬 A heart warming initiative led by MUH & AMHS Cork librarians: Time for SerendipiTEA paired staff from across hospital and mental health services for informal chats that opened minds and strengthened connections. Worth a read: 👇 journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj #hslg #medlibs #SerendipiTea