Transformations: How Research is Changing Ireland

The IVRLA would like to invite all members of the public to visit the IVRLA exhibition stand and meet with staff members and view the repository in action in the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, from Thursday 27th November 2008 until Tuesday 2nd December 2008.

The Transformations Exhibition is part of the PRTLI 10 celebrations and book launch, which mark the 10th anniversary of the PRTLI funding initiative.

The Exhibition area will be open at the following times:
# Thursday 27th November 1pm - 6pm
# Friday 28th November 10am - 7pm
# Saturday 29th November 10am - 6pm
# Sunday 30th November 11am - 6pm
# Monday 1st December 10am - 6pm
# Tuesday 2nd December 10am - 4pm

All are very welcome.

Further information is available on the HEA website here.

IVRLA, PRTLI 10 and the UCD Research Trail

The Irish Virtual Research Library & Archive (IVRLA) would like to invite UCD staff, students, and other interested members to visit the IVRLA Roadshow on Level 2 of the James Joyce Library. We will be around the corner from the Level 2 Information Desk on Friday afternoon, 14th of November until the 21st of November 2008.

The Roadshow is part of the UCD Research Trail, which aims to show-case the PRTLI-funded projects in UCD, in the run up to the 10th Anniversary celebrations of the PRTLI(Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions), which will begin on November 27th in the Science Gallery in Trinity College, Dublin.

Please feel free to talk to staff about the project, take a leaflet and postcard, and to request a brief demonstration. Please note that the Roadshow may not be attended at all times, but we will leave a schedule of when we will be available.

All are very welcome.

Further information about the IVRLA and our contact details can be found at http://www.ucd.ie/ivrla

Many thanks to the James Joyce Library, UCD, and the various individuals who were instrumental in making this Roadshow possible.

IVRLA Updates

A few staff changes to announce this year.

Joseph Greene (metadata librarian) left the IVRLA and took up a new position in UCD Library in January 2008, and the IVRLA Project recruited two new metadata librarians in April 2008. Our two newbies are Daniel Montes, transferring from UCD Library, and Christoph Schmidt-Supprian, transferring from TCD Library. Welcome to both, and best of luck to Joseph!

We would also like to extend our best wishes to John McDonough, former IVRLA project manager, who took up his new position in the Oireachtas Library this month. Best of luck to John!

Stay tuned for further staff announcements in the future!

Also, we will have new collections available shortly in the Repository, so watch this space.

2008 is here

Well theres a lot to catch up on but that will require a later post...

for now, just to advise people that the djvu reader for Mac OS X, the default delivery format for the IVRLA has been updated and can be accessed at:

http://djvu.org/news/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1194679403&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&