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Minister John Gormley TD launches the LAI?cilip Joint Conference at the Maldron Hotel Tallaght.
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/
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
The Library Ireland Week website is now up and running. It can be found at www.libraryirelandweek.ie