In this episode A&SL member Tom Maher is on location at #radlib16 in Brighton and talks to Ian Clark @ijclark about his journey to the library world, about information politics and how librarians are playing a part in educating patrons to protect their digital privacy and safeguard against digital surveillance.

Links mentioned in this episode;

Infoism blog: http://infoism.co.uk/

Voices for the library: http://www.voicesforthelibrary.org.uk/

Radical Librarians Collective: https://rlc.radicallibrarianship.org/

Laura speaks to former CILIP president Jan Parry about her career which has included work in government, health and ministerial information services. She also talks about her groundbreaking work as the only Information Professional on the secretariat of the Hillsborough Independent Panel whose 2012 report revealed new evidence from over 450,000 documents reviewed by the panel. Jan's talk highlights the role information professionals can play in official investigations as keepers of documentary evidence and in providing vital access to evidence in the aftermath of investigations. She also talks about the importance of evaluating impact and advocacy for information services.

Further information links: Hillsborough Independent Panel - report & disclosed material http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/

CILIP Impact toolkit http://www.cilip.org.uk/membership/benefits/virtual-learning-environment-vle/impact-toolkit

Laura talks to Marie O Neill, Head Librarian of Dublin Business School (DBS) about her career which includes academic, government and health libraries as well as time running her own business.

Links mentioned in this episode:

DBS Library Seminar June 10th https://sites.google.com/site/dublibseminar/home

DBS Library http://library.dbs.ie/Home.htm

In this episode Laura Rooney Ferris talks to Aoife Lawton, systems librarian of the Irish Health Service Executive and manager of Lenus the Irish health repository. Aoife also talks about her new book 'The invisible librarian: a librarians guide to increasing visibility and impact' and offers tips to other librarians on increasing their impact.

Links from this episode:

The Invisible Librarian, buy http://store.elsevier.com/The-Invisible-Librarian/Aoife-Lawton/isbn-9780081001745/

The invisible librarian blog - http://theinvisiblelibrarian.com/

Academic & Special Libraries conference programme: http://www.aslibraries.com/#!asl2016-programme-/nlr8m

Niamh O Donovan and Stephanie Ronan developers of the Rudai23 online learning programme talk about how they got into the library profession and the journey of developing and administering the Rudai23 programme.

Tom Maher & Mick O' Dwyer the Zine librarians and guardians of The Forgotten Zine Archive talk about their journey to the library world and how they got involved with the Forgotten Zine Archive. We discuss everything from freezing damaged books, 18th century pamphlets, vampires, Flying Nun records, the Forgotten Zine Archive & why zines and libraries are a match made in heaven.

Links to some things mentioned in this podcast

Forgotten Zine Archive - https://www.facebook.com/TheForgottenZineArchive

Flying Nun records NZ - http://flyingnun.co.nz/

Oireachtas Library Collections http://opac.oireachtas.ie/liberty/libraryHome.do

A podcast by librarians, featuring librarians, talking about librarian stuff presented by Academic & Special Libraries section of the Library Association of Ireland.

Episode 1 of the Academic & Special Libraries podcast features Jane Burns and covers the adventures of a librarian taking in everything from soft condensed matter & Taxonomies for Jimmy Choos to Systematic reviews.