Librarian as Researcher Seminar

Library, NUI Maynooth, Thursday 8th May 2014

Library, NUI Maynooth
9.00 - 9.30       Registration/ tea/coffee and welcome

930 -10.10       Keynote 1
Librarians as Knowledge Producers
Dr John Cullen, Lecturer, School of Business, NUI Maynooth

10.10-11.00     Undertaking Advanced Degree Research
Strand 1. The Education Doctorate (EdD) Journey: Concept, Ownership and Impact of Information Literacy
Mary Antonesa, Senior Librarian NUI Maynooth

Strand 2. The PhD Journey: Letters as a Source for the History of Irish Women 1750-1830
 Jane Maxwell, Principal Curator in the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library in Trinity College Dublin

11.00-11.30     Coffee and viewing of posters

11.30-12.30     Collaborative Research and Publishing/Broadcasting
Strand 1. The Librarian and the Academic: Weaving Data Threads into Research Outputs.
Siobhan Dunne, Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian, Dublin City University

Strand 2. The Librarian and the Media Producer: The Creation of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Audio Archive and Book
Helen Fallon, Deputy Librarian, NUI Maynooth and Doctor Anne O’Brien, Kairos Communications

Lunch and viewing of Posters

2.00-2.40         Keynote 2.
 Librarians as Researchers: Some North American Perspectives
Dr Sharon Bostick, Dean of Libraries, Illinois Institute of Technology.

2.40 – 3.40      Undertaking Research based on Special Collections
Strand 1.Researching the Irish in Asturias: the footprint of the Irish College, Salamanca, 1913-1950
Regina Richardson, Subject Librarian for Music &
Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures NUI Maynooth.

Strand 2. Researching and interpreting the Annals of the Four Masters
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, Deputy Librarian, Royal Irish Academy

3.40- 4.15        Open Forum - Advancing Research among Librarians

4.15                 Evaluation and Close