We are delighted to welcome Dr Chris Burbidge to the DRI team based at Royal Irish Academy in his new role as project manager of National Open Research Forum (NORF) Ireland. In this role, Chris will support the implementation of Ireland’s National Action Plan for #OpenResearchIE 2022-2030. dri.ie/news/dri-welco…

Really looking forward to all things #DataStewardship at the first Sonraí_Irish Data Stewardship Network project conference this week in UCC Ireland UCC Library w the amazing Aoife Coffey at the helm of this National Open Research Forum (NORF) Ireland HEA funded project. See you there! #Sonrai2024 #openresearchIE #FAIRdata #DataStewards

Wonderful to have participation by our brilliant colleague Vanessa 🤩

To learn more about #DigitalPreservation join us and the teams in Glucksman Library and The Hunt Museum in #Limerick next week - book your tickets on the #DPASSH website by Sunday 23rd dpassh.org/registration/

A big welcome to our 18 visitors from all over Europe for #ErasmusDub24! They are in the James Joyce Library today and visiting research libraries in Ireland all week.🇵🇱🇳🇱🇫🇷🇷🇴🇮🇹🇪🇸🇬🇷🇧🇪🇫🇮🇵🇹🇸🇪🇮🇪

Delighted to attend the launch of the Digital Skills project this morning. Great opportunity to celebrate the achievement of the team involved. Shout out to the fabulous Digital Learning Librarian Marta Bustillo

Course materials will be available as open educational resources libguides.ucd.ie/diglit🙌🏻🙌🏻 UCD Library

IReL Director Susan Reilly spoke to Times Higher Education about proposals for a cross-border Diamond OA project - read it here: timeshighereducation.com/news/clear-ben…

Very happy to see the public consultation on the under representation of women and women’s stories in our national collections - what do you think, please have your say to help us make impactful recommendations to Government. Open now, link below!

I was delighted to speak to Times Higher Education about National Open Research Forum (NORF) Ireland funded PublishOA.ie project PublishOA Ireland . We need platforms like this to support Open Access & the benefits it offers. Change is possible! (Ironic that sadly it’s paywalled) timeshighereducation.com/news/clear-ben…

Job alert!📢 We are looking for our next Director of Cultural Heritage (Associate Librarian). As a key member of the Library Executive, you will have overall responsibility for our #CulturalHeritage units. See universityvacancies.com/university-col… for details & to apply by 21st Aug #LISjobsIE

Our project to replace the Library Management System is critical to the University and Library’s digital transformation plans - join the team and help us on the first phase of this journey.

This is a very exciting job in a fabulous University Library! We’re renovating our main library & the Director of Cultural Heritage is key to creating a new centre for our 3 amazing Cultural Heritage units National Folklore Collection UCD UCD Archives UCD Special Collections UCD Library

IReL is pleased to announced that we have reached a new #OpenAccess publishing agreement with Elsevier for their Cell journals. The agreement is back-dated to January 2024, and runs until December 2026. #OA Further details here: irel.ie/cell-press-oa-…

Why are librarians up in arms over ebooks? Lack of available stock, high prices & onerous terms & conditions mean ebooks currently offer poor value for readers & libraries. By Cathal McCauley @library_mu Maynooth University Martin Bradley & Stuart Hamilton Local Government Management Agency rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Digital Preservation Awards underway in the very beautiful de Bijloke Concert Hall. Best of luck to all the nominees. #DPA2024

As part of the work to develop a national roadmap for PID adoption MoreBrains Cooperative undertook a survey of key stakeholder groups from across the Irish research ecosystem. The survey results and analysis are now available to read here: doi.org/10.7486/DRI.z6…

A big thank you to the fabulous team National Library of Ireland Maria Ryan Kieran O'Leary for a very useful and enjoyable workshop on digital preservation system procurement led by DPC Chatter 🙌🏻🤩

We won the IFLA 'Best Green Library Project' 2024 award!♻️🥳 UCD Library Furniture Recycling Team was on a global shortlist of library projects for its sustainable community initiative, finding new homes for old furniture as part of the James Joyce Library Level 3 redevelopment.

We are delighted to present IReL's Executive Report 23/24. On the occasion of the launch of the report, Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Department of Further and Higher Education, has extended his congratulations to everyone who has been involved in building the shared service that is IReL. zenodo.org/records/140470…