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Role of Education Committee:
Standards: To maintain standards of professional education within Ireland and
to work towards the continual raising of standards of professional education
in line with best practice internationally;...
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the Education Committee...
Education Committee Meetings:
16 January 2007 | 13 February 2007
The third Celtic Connections conference took place in Cardiff from 16th-19th May 2006. The conference website can be visited at www.celticconnections.info.
Cochrane Library Colloquium - Competition
The XIV World Cochrane Library Colloquium is coming to Dublin on the 23rd-26th October 2006.
The Colloquium is a unique opportunity to celebrate what has been achieved with the Cochrane Library to date and will discuss how the Cochrane Collaboration can continue to grow and evolve to meet its aims.
In celebration of the Cochrane Colloquium coming to Ireland for the first time, the Irish Health Science Libraries Group and the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford have organised a joint initiative to encourage Librarians to participate in the Colloquium and the development of the Cochrane Library as a whole.
This is in the form of a competition, in which we are asking Librarians and Health Information professionals to submit abstracts on the subject of Librarians and the Cochrane Library. More...
The 2006 AGM took take place on 9 March in Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. Read Full Report...
A Scheme of Associateship was instituted in 1989 to give recognition to the professional status of librarianship. Associateship is open to those members who hold a recognised professional qualification and who meet other criteria as laid down by the LAI.
April 2007 - Annual Joint Conference Booking Form now available!
12 Mar 2007 - Academic & Special Libraries Section - Informal Networking Evening
March 2007 - Library Ireland Week
5 Dec 2006 - Academic and Special Libraries' Section Christmas Networking Evening
8/10 Nov 2006 - Public Libraries' Section Autumn Conference
18 Oct 2006 - Academic & Special Libraries Section - Informal Network Evenings
11 Sept 2006 - Munster Regional Section of the LAI is holding
its annual seminar. Theme of the seminar - "Future Proofing for Libraries".
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July 2006 - Policy Paper on Continuing Professional Development published
April 2006 - The Library Association of Ireland recently responded to the call for submissions on cultural inclusion from the National Economic and Social Forum
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Access the LAI Annual Report 2005.
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