NUI Maynooth Library Festival 2011

Visit the Library between 25 - 28 January to see the 2011 Library Festival,  which covers the works of the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy and St Patrick’s College.

View some of the publications of our colleagues on our Flickr exhibition. If your publication is missing from our virtual exhibition, please send a jpeg of the cover to Elaine Bean or bring a copy to us before Monday 24, and we will add it to the collection.

Tuesday 25 – Friday 28 January 2011

Programme of events

Day 1 - Tuesday 25^th January 11am

11.00am – 11.40am 

Launch of the festival and exhibition of publications

Welcome by Cathal McCauley, University Librarian

Opening address by the President, NUI Maynooth, Professor Tom Collins

Address by Right Reverend Monsignor Hugh G Connolly, President,  St Patrick’s College, Maynooth

Address and launch of Irish in Europe – Virtual Research Environment (IRCHSS funded) by Dr. Thomas O’Connor, Dean of Faculty of Arts,

Celtic Studies and Philosophy, NUI Maynooth

Address and local launch of RIAN byProfessor Ray O’Neill, Vice President for Research, NUI Maynooth

Refreshments will be served

Day 1– Tuesday 25^th January

1.00pm   

Guest Lecture: Assessing research activity and quality: current perspectives from the Arts and Humanities in Ireland

Sinead Riordan, (Senior Policy Research Officer, Royal Irish Academy)

Venue: Seminar Room 1 – John Paul II Library

Day 2 – Wednesday 26^th January

10.30am    

Tour of the Russell Library, with an array of exhibitions, and a visit to the Conservation Unit

(Booking essential – please contact 01-7083890 or e-mail: Russell Library to reserve a place)

1.00pm 

Guest Lecture: The Salamanca Archives

Susan Leyden, (Archivist St Patrick’s College, Maynooth) and Regina Richardson, (Library, NUI Maynooth)

Venue: Seminar Room 1 – John Paul II Library

(Booking essential – please contact 01-7083886, e-mail: Fiona Tuohy to reserve a place)

Day 3 – Thursday 27^th January

10.00am             

Tour of OPW/NUI Maynooth Archive and Research Centre at Castletown House, display of the collections and tour of the house.

(Booking essential – please contact 01-7083881, e-mail: Jacqueline Morrissey to reserve a place, transport provided from JPII Library at 9.45am sharp)

All exhibitions will be in place until lunchtime, Friday January 28^th