Four local authority public library services are included in the shortlist for the  2010 Excellence in Local Government Awards:

Best Library Service
·        Dublin City Council – Open Learning Centre, Online Language Service
·        Galway County Council – Public Library Provision through Public Community Partnerships
·        Leitrim County Council – Leitrim Library Service – Social and Cultural Inclusion
Sustaining the Arts
·        Leixlip Town Council – Platform4 Recording Project @ Leixlip Library
Congratulating those who had made shortlist, Minister for Environment John Gormley, T.D. said quality customer service is a central component of the successful operation and management of local authority business. “It’s important to continue to maintain and indeed raise those standards of performance and it’s equally important to acknowledge and highlight them when we can.”
The awards ceremony takes place on Thursday 28 October in the Burlington Hotel Dublin.

The School of English at Trinity College, Dublin is offering a series of 9 lectures on authors, playwrights and poets selected from ‘among those prescribed for the Leaving Certificate in 2011′.

The full course costs €50 with individual lectures costing €6.

More information from  the TCD website at http://www.tcd.ie/English/evening/english-literature/

Information Librarian, Information Services – University of Limerick.
Salary scale: €35,406-€52,087 p.a.

Informal enquiries regarding the posts may be directed to: Ms Gobnait O’Riordan, Director, Library and information Services.
Applications must be completed online before 12 noon on September 10 2010.
Job description
Guidelines for applying online – Staff Posts

An Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D launched The Public Library Research Programme Report Number 4 at Bundoran Community Library on 25th August 2010. Entitled,

“The Public Library and the School: Policies and Prospects for Library Services to Primary Schools in Ireland”

The report is the result of an extensive research project carried out with the help of City & County Librarians and school principals and teachers in Kerry, Wicklow, Dublin and Wexford.

The Report was set up to examine library services to primary schools and look at ways of improving service provision. The national and international research in the report and the primary school curriculum clearly identify the importance of access to books and reading in the 21st century educational experience and for lifelong development. This is a service valued by both schools and public libraries and also provides an important focus for liaison for teachers and public library staff.

Download the Report

For further information contact Annette Kelly, An Chomhairle Leabharlanna, 01 676 1167 or akelly@librarycouncil.ie

Dublin City Libraries In Conversation with Dublin’s Sporting Heroes – http://bit.ly/9VUAfn http://yfrog.com/17qxggj