Librarians Aloud

In this episode Laura talks to Shona Thoma one of the New Professionals Day Ireland team former IReL officer and assistant librarian in Maynooth University Library. Shona talks about navigating her way into the information profession and the importance of groups like NPD for new information professionals. We also touch on libraries and community engagement, electronic resource management, open access publishing and social media among other topics.

Links from this episode:

More on NPD Ireland https://npdireland.wordpress.com/

NPD Twitter /twitter.com/NPDIreland

Library Association of Ireland Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Library-Association-of-Ireland

Library Association of Ireland Twitter - https://twitter.com/laionline

In this episode Laura talks to Clare Murnane one of the founders of SLIP Ireland (Student librarians and Information Professionals). Clare talks about her early experiences in the library profession, how SLIP got started and we address issues like the need for better connections between library students, practitioners and researchers and navigating internships.

Links from this episode :

Slip website: slipireland.com

Twitter : twitter.com/slipireland

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/studentlibrariansireland/

Pangar, G., Tyron, J. and Smith, A. (2014). Graduate Student Happiness & Well-Being Report. [online] Berkeley: The Graduate Assembly University of California Berkeley. Available at: http://ga.berkeley.edu/wellbeingreport/

Laura Rooney Ferris makes up for lost time with this lengthy talk with Aoife Connolly.

Aoife is Senior Manager - Global Tax Networks & Markets for PwC and talks about a career that has gone from studying accountancy and joining PwC as a receptionist to finding her calling in as a team member in PwCs Information and Research Centre (IRC. She has been Knowledge Manager for PwC Ireland working with teams around the world.

Aoife talks about her journey through the information profession, studying part time for Diploma's in Information Studies at Trinity College Dublin and later Legal Studies at Dublin Institute of Technology and Digital Marketing and Strategy.

She discusses her current role with Global ITS Network which has expanded and evolved to an international role collaborating and managing content across the organisation.

Aoife is also the former treasurer of the A&SL committee and is the founder of Librarian Links a site to collate and share Librarian and library related events.

www.librarianlinks.ie

In this episode Laura Rooney Ferris talks to Alan Carbery. Alan Carbery is Associate Library Director in Champlain College in Vermont, USA. He oversees the College’s award-winning, blended information literacy programme. Alan began his library career in Ireland, studying in UCD and working in the libraries of NUI Galway, The food Safety Authority and Waterford Institute of Technology before moving to the US.

Alan was keynote speaker at LILAC 2017 and spoke to Laura about his career path and how information literacy is integral to what librarians do.

Alan also shared his insights on information literacy in the wake of the rise of 'fake news' and discussed how development of information skills can be a solution in the post truth world.

Links from this episode:

Champlain College Profile : http://www.champlain.edu/academics/library/about-the-library/library-faculty-and-staff/alan-carbery

LILAC 2017 Keynote details : http://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2017/keynote-speakers

Laura Rooney Ferris talks to Scott Bonner, Director of Ferguson Municipal Public Library, Ferguson, Missouri.

Ferguson library was named the 2015 Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year for its response to the turmoil in the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014. Scott talks about what he and the staff at Ferguson Municipal Public Library did to respond to the community in time of crisis and how libraries can be responsive to support their communities.

Social Media - @scottybonner @fergusonlibrary

Ferguson Library - http://ferguson.lib.mo.us/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fergusonlibrary/

Watch Scott Bonner's ASL2017 keynote - https://youtu.be/sT7MK1NvNH0

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In this episode Laura Rooney Ferris talks to Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland.

Sandra traces her career path from her PhD in Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics at UCD school of Mathematics through academia and research to Science Foundation Ireland and on to her role as the founding Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland before joining the National Library.

She talks about the current work of the National Library working to blend and expand physical and digital collections and to act as the national memory keepers. The talk covers; emerging skill sets and roles for information professionals in managing digital content, the challenge of preserving digital content and why we need to preserve our digital memories.

Links from this episode:

National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/

National Library Web Archive http://collection.europarchive.org/nli/

Dr Sandra Collins TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mbHb5wqKo

Digital Repository of Ireland http://dri.ie/

Internet Archive https://archive.org/index.php

In this episode Laura Rooney Ferris talks to Louise Farragher, Information Specialist with the Health Research Board's Evidence Generation & Knowledge Brokering Unit. The interview covers the role of information professionals as embedded members of evidence generation and research teams, the art of learning on the job and evolving opportunities for information professionals in supporting research and evidence gathering.

Links from this episode;

Health Research Board; http://www.hrb.ie/home/

HRB National Drugs Library: http://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/

International Congress of Medical Librarianship (ICML) & European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) conference 2017 : http://eahil2017.net/

Laura Rooney Ferris talks to Ann O Sullivan, Knowledge Services Manager of A&L Goodbody and A&SL committee alumni and ambassador.

Ann traces her career path from academic and corporate libraries to the library and research service of the Houses of the Oireachtas and a legal knowledge services.

Ann also shares her insights on the development of the Academic and Special Libraries Section and some great tips on easing into networking.

Links mentioned in the episode;

Houses of the Oireachtas Library & Research Services http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/about/libraryresearchservice/

Academic & Special Library Section http://www.aslibraries.com/

In this episode Tom Maher talks to Siobhan Britton @wigglymittens art librarian, artist and zinester. Siobhan is a librarian at St Peters House Library University of Brighton. She talks about her journey to librarianship, the value of unique and special collections, the value of libraries and the threats they currently face.

Some links from this episode:

Siobhan’s etsy shop (lots of lovely badges!) https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sluginkpress

University of Brighton libraries https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/libraries/Pages/Online-Library.aspx

The feminist Library http://feministlibrary.co.uk/

David Hughes aka @usernameerror systems librarian at Dublin Business School talks to Laura Rooney Ferris about his library journey which goes from trying to grow fruit flies as part of a Phd to electronic publishing and time with the ministry of defence to becoming 'Mr Koha' and developing DBS library's library systems department. David talks about Open Source tools in libraries and the use of privacy protecting tools. There's also the added bonus of a dead pigeon story.

Links;

Dublin Business School library http://library.dbs.ie/Home.htm

Koha LMS http://www.koha.org/