Library Ireland Week

01/03/2011

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SMART PEOPLE USE SMART LIBRARIES

LIBRARY IRELAND WEEK: 7 – 13 MARCH, 2011

Library websites, blogs, facebook, twitter, free internet access, online and open source materials, ebooks, audiobooks, music, films, the list is endless!!

Monday March 7, 2011 is the start of Library Ireland Week.

It’s all about how people are using libraries and how libraries are using technology and social media to communicate and to increase access to books and other services. We want people to check out the endless possibilities available at their local library and on their library website and social media outlets & to tell us how they think libraries are changing.

There are hundreds of events taking place in all kinds of libraries all over the country during Library Ireland Week.

For example, to celebrate Library Ireland Week, Clondalkin library is delighted to run a workshop helping children find out a little more about their grandparents.  Using the online resources of the library, each child will hopefully discover that you don’t need to be a genius to be a genealogist!

The aim is to find out a little more about who they are and where they came from. Wednesday 9th March @ 3.30

To reserve a place ring Clondalkin library @ 4593315 or clondalkin@sdublincoco.ie;   

To get involved and to see what’s on in a library near you, go to www.libraryirelandweek.ie

For up to the minute information on what’s happening during Library Ireland Week, follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

SMART PEOPLE USE SMART LIBRARIES

For further information contact:

georginabyrne@sdublincoco.ie     01 4597834

jcantwell@waterfordcity.ie     051 849716

or contact any of your local libraries.

Library Ireland Week is an initiative of the Library Association of Ireland.

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