Librarians Aloud

Laura catches up with #asl2019 keynote Christian Lauersen for a drink and a chat about his library journey. Christian is the director of Libraries and citizen services at Roskilde municipality in Denmark. He worked in academic libraries and recently moved into public libraries. he is a champion of the role of libraries as central to vibrant communities.

Christian is the co-founder of Library Planet, a crowdsourced library tourism guide which features libraries from around the world.

He is also co-creator of the Library Bossa Nova track 'Lost in your time at the library'

Library Planet https://libraryplanet.net/

Christian Lauersen Library Lab https://christianlauersen.net/author/clauersen/

Listen to Lost in your time (at The Library) by Los Bossa Nuevo Biblioteca https://soundcloud.com/samfbiblioteket/lost-in-your-time-at-the-library

Laura talks to Claire Ní Neachtain Librarian at Coláiste Íosagáin agus Coláiste Eoin and Andrea Dillion Librarian at St Joseph of Cluny. They discuss their career paths and the challenges and opportunities of school librarianship.

Links from this episode:

Coláiste Íosagáin agus Coláiste Eoin Library http://iosagain.eoiniosagain.ie/page/Focal-on-Leabharlannai/4892/Index.html

St Joseph of Cluny Library http://library.clunykilliney.ie/

School Library association in the Republic of Ireland http://slari.ie/

Laura talks to Helen Fallon Deputy Librarian at Maynooth University during 'Library Ireland Week. They talk about Helen's library career which includes roles as a medical librarian in Saudi Arabia, lecturing in library and information studies at the University of Sierra Leone, consultancy work in Namibia and Tanzania. She also held several roles in DCU including Business & Education Librarian and Science Librarian. Helen talks about developing academic writing skills, the discipline of honing academic writing skills and developing her academic writing librarian course.

Links for this episode:

Academic Writing Librarian blog http://academicwritinglibrarian.blogspot.com/

Ken Saro Wiwa Collection

http://nuim.libguides.com/ken-saro-wiwa-collection

Ken Saro Wiwa Audio Archive

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/collections/ken-saro-wiwa-audio-archive

'Silence would be treason' via Maynooth University institutional repository

http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/8940/1/HF_final%20silence%20would%20be%20treason.pdf

Maynooth University Library https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library

Laura talks to Dr Niall O'Mara the first National Healthcare Wikipedian in Residence (WiR) working with the National Doctors Training & Planning Unit and the HSE's National Health Library & Knowledge Service (NHLKS). Also interviewed is Dr. Rebecca O'Neill, project coordinator at Wikimedia Ireland. They talk about the Healthcare Wikipedian in residence project, the benefits of disseminating health research on Wikipedia and why you should become a Wikipedia editor.

Episode Links :

HSE National Health Library & Knowledge Service website www.hselibrary.ie

National Doctors Training unit HSE https://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/leadership-education-development/met/

Wikimedia Ireland http://wikimedia.ie/

Laura talks to Jane Buggle, duputy librarian and learner supports coordinator at Dublin Business School. Jane is also senior editor of the journals 'Studies in Arts and Humanities' and DBS Business Review. They talk about Jane's career, supporting students with specific learning difficulties. They also discuss the editorial process and the development and expansion of opportunities for librarians in the open access publishing sphere.

Links ;

DBS Library https://library.dbs.ie/

Studies in Arts & Humanities Journal http://sahjournal.com/index.php/sah

DBS Business Review https://dbsbusinessreview.ie/

Laura talks to Katherine Mc Sharry Head of Outreach Services at the National Library of Ireland. They talk about Katherines journey to her current role and the convergence of libraries, museums and cultural heritage institutions. Katherine shares insights into the recent exhibitions and acquisitions of the National Library including 'Listen Now Again' reflecting on the life and work of Seamus Heaney.

NLI 'Listen Now Again' Seamus Heaney exhibition details https://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/current-exhibitions.aspx?article=0ebd1d65-6087-4f38-a2a0-467de598b745

Coverage of Seamus Heaney exhibition

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/seamus-heaney-exhibition-opens-at-new-dublin-cultural-centre-1.3554038

Meet the staff at the NLI https://vimeo.com/143854728

Culture Night at NLI https://culturenight.ie/event/national-library-of-ireland/

Laura talks to Margaret Irons founder and owner of LibraryJobs.ie the central location for Library and information jobs in Ireland and Librarian at the school of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. Margaret talks about her early experience and road into the library profession, her time on the Academic and special libraries committee and why she set up LibraryJobs.

Links from this episode:

Library jobs http://libraryjobs.ie/

Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS) https://www.dias.ie/

DIAS, School of Celtic Studies https://www.dias.ie/celt/

School of Celtic Studies Library https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-library/

Social Media Links:

Library Jobs https://twitter.com/LibraryJobs

DIAS Library Twitter https://twitter.com/SCSLibrary

Margaret Irons https://twitter.com/magsironelly

Laura ends 2017 talking to Niamh O Sullivan. Niamh is the librarian & research officer with the Irish Blood Transfusion Service. Niamh talks about her career including work for the San Francisco Chronicle, time in an early tech company and in a range of information and research roles. Niamh shares insight into her current role and what she loves most about being a librarian. Icelandic fishing info, blood and platelet donation, family secrets and jaffa cakes ....this conversation has them all.

Links from this episode:

Irish Blood Transfusion Service https://www.giveblood.ie/

Academic & special libraries conference 2018 http://www.aslibraries.com/fees-booking

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Laura talks to Andy Tattersall and Jan Holmquist at the Internet Librarian International conference in London. They cover their librarian origin stories talk about library advocacy, global libraries, open access, social media, fake news, research communication and more.

Links from this episode:

Andy Tattersall SHARR https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff/tattersall

Andy Tattersall twitter @Andy_Tattersall

Jan Holmquist website https://janholmquist.net/

Jan Holmquist twitter @janholmquist

Internet Librarian International 2017

ASL2018 Call for papers info http://www.aslibraries.com/asl2018