In 2015, I wrote a post for Libfocus called Librarians are a lot like DJs. My argument was straightforward enough. Librarians and DJs are bo...

Article by Libfocus guest author Holly Meade-Kennedy. Holly works within the Irish academic library sector and is passionate about social ju...

This guest post is by Nadina Yedid , Assistant Librarian with Children's Health Ireland . There’s a saying that goes, “They didn’t know it w...

This guest post is by Margaret Irons, Librarian, School of Celtic Studies,  Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. https://orcid.org/0000-00...

This guest post is by Cathal Madigan, Library Assistant at TU Dublin. On Wednesday May 13th, 2026, I had the privilege to attend the LIR Ann...

Guest post Stephanie Chen , Learning and Teaching Librarian, Academic Services, UCC Library For the A&SL 2026 conference, I facilitated a se...

Guest post by Dina Gorelik. Dina is an MLIS Student at University College Dublin At the end of March, I had the pleasure of attending the   ...

I produced a brief history of the journal as an artefact and looked into its essential function(s). This work does not address the economic,...

Guest Post by Michelle O'Donovan. Michelle is a Library Assistant with the Client Services Team at UCC Library Last  summer ,  UCC  Library ...

Rebel against The Algorithm. Get a library card.

The large research library NASA has at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was an incredibly important resource for space mission data and research. That resource is now closed.

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

By Cassidy Polack As I have been working on an inventory of our medical instruments in the Kornhauser Health Sciences Library’s historical collection, I have come across a wide variety of items. Su…

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