Library Ireland Week 2010 was launched on the 4th March at the recently opened Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Dublin by Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney. Heaney spoke of the role that libraries played in his youth and education. Drawing on one of the episodes from Homer’s Odyssey, Heaney skillfully demonstrated the role that libraries play in developing curiosity, enabling the individual reader or learner, and in fulfilling the ongoing learning needs of people throughout their lives. He saluted libraries in providing resources in all formats and signalled the significance of librarians as ‘guardians of the word hoard’.
For further details about the events taking place during Library Ireland Week, as well as photographs of the launch please go to the Library Ireland Week website www.libraryirelandweek.ie