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                                                   Careers Event

Invest In Your Future: Help us to Help You

LAI Taskforce on Employment Support

When:                        Saturday November 27th                 Time:  9.30 – 13.30

 Where:                       Dublin City Library & Archive, 138 – 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2                                

 Cost:              Free

 Purpose:       To provide career advice;

To gather views, opinions and ideas via focus group discussion and feedback [on what the LAI might do to support those who are unemployed, seeking employment, facing redundancy, career uncertainty or working on a contract basis]

 Who:              Are you a Librarian?  Are you unemployed?  Working on a contract basis?  Have you been made redundant?  Finding it difficult to gain employment?  Facing career uncertainty?

 Speakers:     Paul Mullan, Measurability – Careers and HR Service Experts                                                                                      http://www.measurability.ie/about/

                       Miriam Leonard, Divisional Librarian, Dublin City Public Libraries  www.dublincitypubliclibraries.ie

 Focus Group Facilitator – Aine Carey, member of LAI Taskforce

Contact:            Tel:  01-6744806

            Email:  nina.obrien@dublincity.ie

The 2010 AGM of the Munster Section will take place on 12 October in Bishopstown Library, Cork.

Light Refreshment will be served. All welcome.

Further details Matthew Farrell, Bishopstown Library, Cork. matthew_farrell@corkcity.ie

In recognition of, and to celebrate the holding of the 2010 LILAC conference at Limerick, the LAI and CONUL (Consortium of National & University Libraries) agreed to sponsor an Irish Information Literacy award.  Nominations were invited from individuals or teams who had engaged in IL initiatives in the Republic.  Sixteen nominations were received from a range of academic, special and public libraries. These were  assessed on the following criteria:

• Raising the profile of information literacy within the organisation

• Developing a system/course/programme/service, or product which develops information literacy skills

• Evidence of impact

• Clear demonstration of  innovation, initiative and originality

The standard of the nominated programmes was extremely high and showed considerable imagination, skill and expertise on the part of the teams involved.  The winning nomination was the only entry from a public library service — the Library Skills Course provided by the Development and Teaching Team at Wexford County Library Service.  This 12-week, 30-hours contact course is a Leaving Certificate level course, provided by the library team and externally assessed via FETAC which has also accredited it.  The course satisfied all of the assessment criteria and benefits from being transferable to other services, second-level schools etc.

On behalf of her colleagues Anne Griffin, Celestine Rafferty and Yvonne Smith, Susan Kelly accepted the €500 award and an inscribed certificate at the LILAC conference dinner on 30 March at Dromoland Castle.  Philip Cohen, Chair of CONUL, and Siobhán Fitzpatrick, LAI President, jointly presented the award.  LILAC Chair, Debbi Boden, thanked both bodies for sponsoring the award and welcomed their collaboration with LILAC.

For futher information please go to http://www.wexford.ie/wex/Departments/Library/LibraryResearchSkills/