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Currently in the Library foyer there is a display of banned and controversial books from recent history with a selection of associated reference and related works on censorship.  This display will run until Thursday April 6th Collection Development

    On 31 March 2023 starting at 01:30 am GMT individual Lippincott online journal sites (found at   https://lww.com/pages/journals.aspx ) will be unavailable for around 45 minutes due to maintenance work. You can still access all our journals via the Ovid platform throughout this time. We will do everything we can to minimize any downtime.

   Feabhra 2023, Maeve O' Neill Fostaíodh in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe mé i mí Iúil  2022   chun codanna de chartlann Chonradh na Gaeilge a dhigitiú.  D'oibrigh mé roimhe seo   i Leabharlann Náisiúnta  na hÉireann  (NLI), áit a raibh mé  i mo  ghrianghrafadóir digiteach don Bhailiúchán ‘Towards a Republic’.    Bíonn raon trealaimh á úsáid agam i nGaillimh chun an bailiúchán a dhigitiú. Déanann an tionscadal digiteach príomhcháipéisí ó fheachtais Chonradh na Gaeilge ó na 1960idí i leith a dhigitiú. I measc théamaí an bhailiúcháin tá seirbhísí teilifíse agus raidió Gaeilge, stádas na Gaeilge mar theanga oifigiúil de chuid an AE, an Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais, reachtaíocht teanga, Gluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta, rialachas áitiúil don Ghaeltacht mar aon le cainteoirí Gaeilge i dTuaisceart Éireann. Ach leagan digiteach den chartlann a bheith ar fáil don phobal níos leithne, cuirfear go mór lenár dtuiscint ar an bpróiseas trínar cuireadh stát na hÉireann ar bun, agus ar ú

  February 2023, Maeve O' Neill I was employed at the University of Galway in July  2022   to digitise sections of the archive of Conradh na Gaeilge . Prior to this I  worked a t the National Library  of Ireland  (NLI), where I  was  a digital photographer on the ‘Towards a Republic’ Collection.    In Galway I work with a range of equipment to digitise the collection. The digital project digitises key documents from the Conradh na Gaeilge campaigns since the 1960s. Themes covered include Irish language television and radio services, the status of Irish as an official EU language, Irish in the education system, language legislation, the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement, local governance for the Gaeltacht and Irish speakers in Northern Ireland. When available to a broader public through digitisation, the archive will greatly enrich our understanding of the process of state formation in Ireland and the continuing use of the Irish language throughout the 20th Century.   Conradh was esta

Help spread the word to create a national inventory of Open Repositories. Repository owners/managers can register their Irish Open Access Repository at https://universityofgalway.ie/openrepositories/register/ by Thursday, 16 March 2023, at 17:00.    This is the first step in a National Open Research Forum (NORF) project where many great partners are aiming to create a sustainable national community for Irish Open Repositories. This project strengthens our existing national network of repositories for open access publications. Work will audit, reinforce, and align the repository network to each other and to international best practice.  Open repositories are typically operated by research active institutions to openly publish their own research. For example, University of Galway open repository is the open access publications and data repository .  More impactful openness and alignment At the moment, most Irish open repositories take different approaches to metadata and have diffe