I’ve been warmly welcomed in my first week as University Librarian at University College Cork. I’m delighted to be here and very much looking forward to working with students, the Library team and University colleagues. Many thanks to @acarbery.bsky.social for his leadership as Interim Librarian.

There are vacancies and then there are very special vacancies. This is one of those. This could be your next dream role! We’re recruiting a Head of Special Collections & Archives, @ucclibrary.bsky.social Full spec at ore.ucc.ie. Closing noon 19th Aug.

Job alert!!! Join a really super team working with @rmadden.bsky.social @stephaniechen.bsky.social Ben and Paul on delivering exceptional services to our students.

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📢 UCC Library is hiring a Learning Support Librarian Lead on study skills, digital tools & academic support and supporting student success. 📍 Permanent, full-time 🗓️ Apply by 05 Aug 2025 12pm 👉 www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #LibraryJobs #UCC #AcademicLibrarian #Hiring

We’ve launched our new Digital & Information Literacy Framework at UCC Library It supports our users in building skills to live, learn & work in a digital world. More learning & teaching support coming soon 👉 libguides.ucc.ie/library-lear... #infolit #digitalliteracy #ucclibrary

Shout out to our colleague Mona Power who presented a poster at the @conulconference.bsky.social this week titled "Shining a Light on Collections: Cyanotype Printing as Public Engagement." (1/5) #CONUL2025 #UCCLibrary

... for selecting me to join the handful of recipients of their President's medal - an award given to someone who, while not working in libraries, has an exceptional record of promoting libraries and reading. It was genuinely humbling. Thank you all.

Believe it or not, I was presented with an award for the first time ever in my career yesterday morning, and it was from some of the finest people in the book world - librarians! So thank you from the bottom of my heart to the @laibluesky.bsky.social and new president Lorna Dodd...

The Library Association of Ireland President’s Medal is awarded to broadcaster and convener of Ireland’s largest book club @rickoshea.bsky.social Rick O’Shea. Such a worthy winner @laibluesky.bsky.social

The Library Association of Ireland has a new President! Congrats to Lorna Dodd, Deputy University Librarian @ucdlibrary.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @wxlibrarian.bsky.social for her Presidency over the past 2 years @laibluesky.bsky.social

It was such a treat to spend two days in Sweden connecting with inspiring peers from Cohort 5 of our Liber Emerging Leaders programme. We focused on leadership challenges & achievements & took in visits to Malmo University, Lund University & SLU Alnarp Libraries. Feeling rejuvenated & refocused

A real treat to connect with inspiring peers. Feeling rejuvenated and… | Alan Carbery

A real treat to connect with inspiring peers. Feeling rejuvenated and refocused.

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We’re looking forward to welcoming Liz in July. @lizjolly.bsky.social

University College Cork@ucc.ie · last yr.

UCC is pleased to advise that it has appointed Liz Jolly as its University Librarian. Liz Jolly is an experienced library and information services leader with a distinguished career. Since 2018, she has served as the Chief Librarian of the British Library. www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Major Job Klaxon! A really important role in our @ucclibrary.bsky.social library opened for applications today. Come join our team as Head of Content Services to lead our teams on collections. More details and apply at: andersonquigley.com/ucc-library/ #lisjobsie

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University College Cork - Head of Content Services vacancy represented by Anderson Quigley executive search firm in London, UK.

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Absolutely my most favourite day on campus all semester. Why? Because we gathered as a team to hear the presentations from our amazing student interns (only our 2nd ever cohort!). They shared their experiences as an intern, the projects they worked on and their recommendations for future interns!

Most days at work are good fun. But today was my absolute favourite day of… | Alan Carbery

Most days at work are good fun. But today was my absolute favourite day of the whole semester, without question. It was such a joy to gather as a library team for the presentations from our second eve...

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. @ucclibrary.bsky.social Client Services Team Lead Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social Chair of the LAI Munster Regional Section delivering a lightning session on the revival of the section at the #laicilipire25 conference

Go Team @ucclibrary.bsky.social! Mairead and Michelle from our client services team delivering a lightning talk on the revision of our TY placement programme. #laicilipire25

Delightful evening celebrating the centenary of @corkup.bsky.social in @ucclibrary.bsky.social this evening. Thanks to Minister O’Donovan and @joh2024.bsky.social and Prof Tom Dunne for their words

Excellent posters at A&SL Conference from. UCC library @ucclibrary.bsky.social and MIE Library @aslibraries.bsky.social

This Thursday at #ASL2025 visit Anne O'Callaghan's poster presentation to learn how @ucclibrary.bsky.social has built meaningful connections with UCC students through their Inclusive and Collaborative Thematic Book Displays. More at aslibraries.ie/keynotes-spe...

Our @ucclibrary.bsky.social Library leaders and managers are retreating for the morning as we take stock of our achievements in our wider team over the past 6 months, and what we’re focusing on over the next transitionary 6 months. We have a great team committed to excellent services.

Really nice to see the birthday party decorations on the library on my way in this morning! @corkup.bsky.social Celebrating 100 Years of Publishing Excellence @ucclibrary.bsky.social

Standing room only in @ucclibrary.bsky.social Creative Zone for the Mná at UCC #IWD2025 event @ucc.ie @joh2024.bsky.social

Ready for your next role? Brand new leadership role in @ucclibrary.bsky.social to lead our Digital Scholarship Studio & other technology-rich spaces and services embedding them into the teaching, learning and research landscape in UCC. Closing 25th March at noon! Come join our super team! #lisjobsie

Movie night in @ucclibrary.bsky.social! Part of our student engagement activities this week. Did someone say free hot chocolate!?!

Public libraries are amazing! Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library? Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?

Two things - The LAI/CILIP Ireland Joint Conference is in Cork, like, on April 10th-11th in the Kingsley Hotel. And the call for papers is now open! conference.libraryassociation.ie/call-for-pap...

Our five-credit Information Literacy module for research students goes from strength to strength. I think we remain the only University in the country to offer a credit-bearing course for #infolit (but open to correction). Run by our fab Learning & Teaching team here in the library.

UCC Library@ucclibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

We've wrapped up our Graduate Information Literacy module PG6009 for 2024/25 at UCC Library. 82 research students attended the full course this year – very much a collaborative effort among Library colleagues & contributions from colleagues such as @lorettag.bsky.social 👍 to everyone involved

Listen to @stephaniechen.bsky.social chatting with our friends in the Centre of Digital Education about her work in @ucclibrary.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Studio and her move into our super Learning & Teaching Librarian team. open.spotify.com/episode/3J7r...

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Website paper prototyping at University College Cork today: can’t wait to write this experience up!

Day four of @ucclibrary.bsky.social working with @andypriestner.bsky.social, this time focusing on our upcoming work to redesign our library website. Great to hear how the team engaged with our users around website prototypes. Lots of learning

It’s now live! I’m so excited about this post – I’m recruiting to the new role of Head of Student Library Experience at @lselibrary.bsky.social. Interested? jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...