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Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, @LAIonline. Into early printed books & historic/special collections.
Ireland
Joined July 2016
📢 ANNUAL SEMINAR 📢 The LAI Rare Books Group is delighted to announce our annual seminar for 2024: Bookcraft. Join us for a day of fascinating talks about printing, binding, paper-marbling, bookcraft cataloguing and more. Details & booking at the link: https://t.co/uWxx5s7AsG
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Teaching is well underway here in Manuscripts & Archives! Tomorrow's M Phil in Medieval Studies will be looking at TCD MS 174 Lives of Saints 📜 which contains the Old English inscription: "of Salisbury, I am" 💬#ManuscriptMonday #VirtualTrinityLibrary
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The Library Association of Ireland Genealogy and Local Studies Group is delighted to present a free series of online lunchtime seminars this February. Dive into fascinating talks about digitization projects and mapping heritage. See https://t.co/0IVWO8Unol for details/booking.
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❗️Exciting conference news❗️Registration is OPEN for Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, 2-4 April 2025. The conference will be both in-person and online at the University of London @SASNews
https://t.co/ZznzOj8Kpj
sas.ac.uk
Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory is a conference that seeks to further an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral discussion on how the born-digital transforms research.
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We are opening our Call for Papers today for the 2025 CONUL Conference in Tullamore. Excitingly, its our 10th Anniversary Conference, and the theme for 2025 is ‘ Shaping Tomorrow- Reflections and New Directions’. More info on our website ( link in bio) #CONUL25
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We @EdwardWorthLib are moving to Blue Sky and Instagram - please follow us @edwardworthlib.bsky.social (on Blue Sky) and @edwardworthlib (on Instagram)!
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Conul Conference 2025: 28 - 29th May at the Tullamore Court Hotel. The theme is Shaping Tomorrow – Reflections and New Directions. CONUL invites submissions for presentations/posters which address the conference theme/sub-themes. For more info, click here: https://t.co/QTGYtdf3Ez
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TCB's first seminar of 2025 is less than two weeks away! Join us on Wednesday, January 29th -- and for the rest of the term -- for talks from curators, publishers, book collectors, and activists about their contributions to Ireland’s contemporary book culture 📚
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Embark on a journey from Calcutta to the Island of St Helena! Today we have the second post of our new weekly blog series, presenting transcriptions from the travel journal of Harriet Marshall! @ULLibrary Read more and subscribe at: https://t.co/SvNmReALjn
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Great article by our own committee member, Marie Boran, of @UniOfGalwayASC in the latest CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections newsletter!
We were a little late bringing you the RBSCG Newsletter for Autumn 2024, but that's because we were taking time to make it extra-special! https://t.co/W8GShHlDCu
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We were a little late bringing you the RBSCG Newsletter for Autumn 2024, but that's because we were taking time to make it extra-special! https://t.co/W8GShHlDCu
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#TrinityBooksale Feb. 11-13th The 32nd annual Trinity Secondhand Booksale opens at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 11th February 2025 in the Exam Hall, Front Square, Trinity (admission €3.00). The globally renowned auction of rare books will take place at 5.30pm. https://t.co/olNmQAHfCn
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⭐ We're #Hiring: Visitor Programme Manager Responsible for the ongoing operation and management of visitor services at @NLIreland ➡️ For more info, and how to #apply: https://t.co/DfIAVJdR1S 📆 The closing date for receipt of #applications is 23 January 2025 at 3pm #jobfairy
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Joan Barnewell’s talk will focus on the period of three great emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. She will explore the magnificence of their courts immortalised in some of the vibrant paintings in the Chester Beatty. *FREE, booking essential: https://t.co/Atll6bxUM7
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🚨We are hiring and hope you will consider joining us. This could be it, the new challenge you've been looking for! 💡 Apply by January 15th 2025. #libraryjobs #LISjobsIE #TrinityCollegeDublin #TáimidAgFostú #Folúntas Search Library Vacancies here: https://t.co/Kgik6QrI6u
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'O Sapientia', the first of the seven 'O' antiphons, for the last seven days of Advent. This fragment from a 14th-century manuscript was recycled as the binding on a collection of 16th century pamphlets #Christmas #Manuscripts #Fragments
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Advent Calendar Day 6: A beautiful illustration from Enda O'Brien's A Christmas Treat, found in the Leonard Collection (1982). Check https://t.co/NlJuSMPUf2 each day for new images & subscribe to our blog! #AdventCalendar @ARAIreland @ULLibrary @UL🎄
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We are delighted that John Feehan MRIA and @offalycoco Heritage Office has released a film about early Irish herbals in the Library. You can learn about hereditary medical families & their manuscripts here: https://t.co/uHxeLsSztR
@offalyarchives @OffalyLibraries @offalyhistory
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We are delighted to announce the launch of a new part of our website, Lives of the Fellows, celebrating the first female Fellows of the College, starting with Dr Mary Hearn who was admitted 100 years ago in 1924. https://t.co/Xi5EcFtSu6
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