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by hugh murphy interim editor of an leabharlann this month marks the counts on fingers twenty ninth anniversary of me becoming a qualified librarian in some ways it doesn t feel like that but by most professional metrics i am a probably well into dinosaur territory what that brings of course is experience and hopefully a degree of professional if not necessarily personal maturity and our profession needs that i hope however our profession also needs freshness of perspective this is critical as library and information studies in ireland are shaped not only by theory and practice but also by the ideas research and voices of those within it one of the most powerful ways we can contribute to our wonderfully varied field is through academic writing and publication in professional journals publishing may seem daunting at first but it is underpinned by a diversity of perspectives and for our more recent graduates a fresh perspective and outlook is a strength you are uniquely positioned to question established practices explore emerging technologies and reflect on the changing role of libraries in irish society whether your interests lie in digital literacy community engagement unique and distinctive collections or open access and scholarship your insights can add really meaningful value to discourse within the profession more than that engaging in academic writing also strengthens your own professional development it should sharpen your critical thinking deepen your understanding of key issues and hopefully enhance your confidence as a practitioner writing for journals such as an leabharlann or other lis publications can really enable you to compare and contrast your local experiences to a national or even global conversation and importantly this can help ensure that irish librarianship in all its aspects is visible and influential on a wider stage publication in an leabharlann is not reserved for seasoned professionals we actively welcome contributions from early career library staff and we have a wonderfully supportive review process and the great thing about working in libraries is that much of what you could write about is practice based writing about a project you have done can be an accessible starting point in our last two issues of an leabharlann we have seen voices from students and early career staff through to the full cretaceous era dinosaur but we need to ensure that this breadth continues and is also represented in terms of diversity of library experience academic libraries public libraries special libraries all are part of the national experience and we need all voices an article may be too intimidating so perhaps review a book or give a conference report and for those of you who have delivered blog posts on platforms such as this perhaps an article with its greater length and rigour might be a really beneficial next step by choosing to write and publish you are not only building your own career you are helping to shape the future of our profession your voice matters your experiences matter ireland s library sector benefits when its newest members contribute thoughtfully and confidently to its shared body of knowledge take the first step write submit and become part of the conversation send us an abstract at editor libraryassociation ie read more posted on wednesday june 03 2026 categories academic writing an leabarlann cppd libraries library 28 may 2026 libfocus link out for may 2026 welcome to the may edition of the libfocus link out an assemblage of library related things we have found informative educational thought provoking and insightful on the web over the past while stitching history together the university of nebraska lincoln s quilt research collections and the international quilt museum ella shoenberger looks at the quilt research collections at the university of nebraska lincoln libraries and its relationship to the international quilt museum observing collections a micron at a time a tools of the trade post as part of library of congress s tools of the trade series megan zins introduces us to how microscopy is used in preservation and conservation cork public library set for counting house complex after 35m purchase a new public library for cork city is set to open in the restored counting house complex on south main street with plans for expanded study cultural music and community spaces in a landmark 35m redevelopment project decolonizing the community centered library making way for radical decolonized librarianship edgardo civallero explores how libraries can move beyond neutral institutional models to become collaborative community led spaces that centre marginalised voices local knowledge and social justice from open access to preprints are we repeating the same mistakes in scholarly publishing in this guest post on the scholarly kitchen blog jonny coates argues that the next few years will prove pivotal in determining whether preprints become a stable part of the scholarly ecosystem or drift into the same patterns of fragmentation and inequity that have complicated the open access transition big publishers are ripping off our public libraries barry andrews reports in the irish examiner that the public library model is in danger due to extortionate pricing and licensing terms for the lending of e books by major commercial publishers lost copy of seventh century poem in old english discovered at rome library in this article for the guardian rory carroll describes the discovery of the earliest surviving poem in the english language by two scholars from trinity college dublin university libraries names first indigenous knowledges faculty librarian katie randall has become the first indigenous knowledges librarian in the university libraries at cu boulder she speaks about how her role aims to build a more inclusive and accurate understanding of the histories and futures studied in the university we re good at search just not the kind that the ai era demands a provocation aaron tay reflects on how a lot of us librarians struggle with the impact of ai on search the ai detection delusion james o sullivan hits the nail on the head the solution to one form of technological recklessness cannot be another detection tools give their users the feeling of objective certainty while delivering probabilistic guesses and in doing so they can cause real harm to real people students who lose marks or face disciplinary action professionals whose reputations are damaged and writers whose command of english is held against them by an algorithm that mistakes simplicity for artificiality read more posted on thursday may 28 2026 categories libfocus linkout 27 may 2026 what does librarianship mean to a sl conference attendees a summary of thoughts guest post stephanie chen learning and teaching librarian academic services ucc library for the a sl 2026 conference i facilitated a session titled what does librarianship mean to you putting your values into practice this was neither a presentation nor a case study and could easily have been a dud so i do want to extend a massive thank you to the conference organisers for being open to including this in the programme and to all the attendees for participating my aim for this session was to give attendees an opportunity to reflect on themes from previous sessions and importantly to give them a space to reflect on their own values and personal understanding of librarianship through participation in online polls padlet and individual reflections this blog post brings together the responses shared from attendees during the session i have also included the questions and activities used along with some context for those who were unable to attend if you would like to work through the questions and activities yourself please know there are no right or wrong answers professional values i began the session by introducing values values can exist at multiple levels societal values of the community and users libraries serve our own personal values and professional values for the purposes of the exercises i asked attendees to try and focus specifically on their professional values examples of professional values include gorman s enduring values stewardship service intellectual freedom rationalism literacy and learning equity of access to recorded knowledge and information privacy democracy and lankes new librarianship service learning openness intellectual freedom and safety intellectual honesty to help attendees get into a reflective mindset and identify a professional value i asked them to complete the following exercise think of a time when you felt proud of your work or a sense of achievement in work what was the situation what did you do what was the underlying value attendees were asked to share this underlying value in an online poll here is a word cloud of what was submitted broadly speaking responses could be categorised into the following themes service connection and collaboration edi equity diversity and inclusion access and openness learning and development the next exercise explored how strongly attendees related to professional codes of ethics from various library associations while some associations do have explicit statements of professional values most do not and instead have professional codes relating to ethics or conduct an analysis of 60 code of ethics sourced from the ifla website revealed the following broad values user service quality objectivity impartiality privacy confidentiality intellectual freedom anti censorship professional integrity ethics access to information social responsibility cultural heritage preservation equity non discrimination professional development values from library associations the majority of attendees did relate to these values although for a number of attendees there does appear to be a disconnect to try and explore this further i asked attendees to engage in a sorting exercise in padlet from the list of values from library associations attendees could sort these into four columns non negotiable values important but flexible aspirational values and not important to me at all access to information and user service appeared most often as a non negotiable value while professional development was typically viewed as being important but flexible some values like social responsibility and cultural and heritage preservation appeared in multiple columns this demonstrates values do not always align between individuals and other values will take priority while code of ethics can help articulate shared expectations they can also fail to address any tensions in values especially when our own values do not align with what these codes might say when such conflicts arise there is rarely an easy solution however i would suggest understanding our own values and reflecting on where we place importance and priority can act as a useful guide values into practice to give attendees something practical to take away from the session i asked attendees to consciously foreground one value they wanted to put into practice with this one value in mind i asked them to consider the following one tiny action i can take next week one medium scale change i can influence this year project service policy one big aspirational change i d love to see attendees were invited to share their actions on a padlet if they were comfortable doing so some of the smaller actions that emerged included checking in with fellow colleagues prioritising staff wellbeing and approaching work with more intentional positivity medium term actions focused on increasing open access improving practices advocacy for librarianship and professional development finally some aspirational changes from attendees centred around achieving 100 open access starting new initiatives and the development of new library spaces or even a new library building a hope many of us can probably relate to defining librarianship to conclude the session i asked attendees to reflect on a final question what does it mean to be a librarian today i asked attendees to complete the sentence librarianship is while many responses were positive framing librarianship as essential and even badass it s important to also acknowledge the complexity involved in the profession as highlighted by some attendees being a jack of all trades hard work and tiring overall responses showed librarianship as being a collaborative people focused profession centred on sharing knowledge and helping others to finish i d like to highlight some definitions that personally resonated with me but i would encourage everyone to view all the responses advocating and enabling for social justice and lifelong learning for everyone through collections spaces and research fostering a love of learning new things while also learning new things yourself a great career be a contributor not an extractor acknowledgements thank you to the a sl committee for giving me the opportunity to facilitate this session and thank you to my fellow ucc library colleagues ronan madden learning teaching team lead and martin o connor communications coordinator for supporting me in developing the session read more posted on wednesday may 27 2026 categories conferences librarians librarianship values 14 may 2026 finding strength in difference reflections from the hslg annual conference 2026 in march 2026 library and information professionals from across ireland came together for the health sciences libraries group hslg annual conference held in person and centred on the theme finding strength in difference as a professional librarian working on behalf of the irish food and drink industry the day offered timely insights into how libraries can navigate rapid technological change while staying grounded in human judgement ethics and collaboration across the programme speakers explored artificial intelligence ai professional identity collaboration models and visibility a consistent message emerged our collective strength lies not in tools alone but in how we design for connection build shared understanding and support one another across diverse roles and settings human judgement in an ai ocean the conference opened with a keynote from brendan kelly professor of psychiatry at trinity college dublin who spoke about navigating an ai ocean while retaining human responsibility and judgement he highlighted that while ai can augment decision making it introduces four tensions epistemic black box systems ethical bias relational loss of human connection and legal accountability drawing on how society has historically reacted to new technologies kelly argued that panic is understandable but unhelpful instead he advocated for responsible transparent and human led use of ai accountability he stressed always remains with the user not the tool declaring ai use openly and questioning outputs critically are essential steps towards trust this framing resonated strongly with 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