Niamh McHenry

@niamhmchenry.bsky.social

Teaching, Outreach and Engagement Librarian at MIE Library 📚 All views are my own.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We celebrate #Pride by honouring the voices and stories of the LGBTQ+ community and seeking to diversify our collections, along with having a LGBTQ+ Resources guide. 🌈 Not only during Pride Month but all year, the #MIELibrary aims to ensure all feel welcomed. 🤝

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A lovely presentation from Rasa Dromantiene from Fingal Libraries looking at how library services can support the integration of immigrants in Ireland, specifically the Lithuanian community 🇱🇹🇮🇪 To quote Rasa, libraries are "building bridges, not walls" #LAICILIP2026

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And that's a wrap for #ASL2026! The A&SL committee would like to thank our keynote speakers, case study and poster presenters, sponsors and attendees for their enthusiasm and engagement. Thanks also to the @ria.ie staff and our photographers for helping to make this year's conference such a success.

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Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me! I feel very lucky to work in a profession that I'm very passionate about, and to be surrounded by a wonderful community of librarians 🏅😊

A&SL@aslibraries.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to Niamh McHenry @librarymie.bsky.social who won our #ASL2026 poster competition! No mean feat considering the high standard of posters from Anne Byrne and Emberly Davey from Hibernia College, Sarah Timmins @mulibrary.bsky.social and Andrew Ryan from City Education Group

A woman (Niamh McHenry) standing beside a poster

The big day is almost here 🎉 It has been a wonderful experience joining the committee in the past year, and I can confidently say that you won't want to miss tomorrow! We are going to have a wonderful range of speakers from across the field! Be sure to grab the last two tickets ⬇️

A&SL@aslibraries.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Two tickets have just become available for #ASL2026 happening next Tuesday in the @ria.ie! They're not likely to be around for long so get over to aslibraries.ie/asl-conferen... check out the amazing schedule and book your ticket now!

Save The Date! We are excited to announce that the Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference will take place on Tuesday 24th March 2026 in @ria.ie in Dublin. The #ASL2026 conference theme is Reimagining Librarianship: Purpose, Practice and Possibility - call for papers coming soon...

A&SL logo over the following text: #ASL2026, Academic & Special Libraries Conference. Reimagining librarianship: purpose, practice and possibility. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 2. Save the date! Tuesday 24th March 2026.

Thank you to all of those involved in the HECA Conference yesterday! It was a great experience being able to present 'Academic librarians' perspectives on the implementation of generative AI tools in academic databases' with my colleagues. A really insightful day with great conversations!

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