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Career Development Group of the Library Association of Ireland
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We're putting the call out for new members! 👋

The CDG is a friendly and welcoming committee made up of professionals across the LIS sector who meet online once a month via Zoom.

Interested in joining? Fill out our form. No prior experience required, just enthusiasm!

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Call to join the CDG committee with the following benefits: network with colleagues, co-organise events & workshops, gain experience in committee work in a supportive, low-pressure environment, contribute your voice and ideas to our ongoing projects and planning. Accompanying the text are images of the committee at various events.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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📢 Registration now open for our next event: Neurodiversity in Libraries featuring speakers Jo @jofitz.bsky.social & Andrew @playbrarian.uk, co-chairs of @nlisn.bsky.social and Elaine Chapman from TU Dublin

📅 Tuesday, December 9, 6:30pm (AGM 8pm)
📍 Online
🎟️ Free

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Neurodiversity in libraries, a free event from the Library Association of Ireland Career Development Group. The event will take place online via Zoom on Tuesday, December 9th at 6:30pm with the group's annual general meeting (AGM) following at 8pm.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Robert gives some examples of different reflective models. These models can be useful for guiding your reflection.

#CDGEportfolios
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Robert Alfis has a look into the Professional Development arrangement on ePortfolios and the skills you can list out! Take a look. 😍

#CDGEportfolios
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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What goes into your ePortfolio?
These are a good idea.
🤔

#CDGEportfolios
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A ePortfolio helps with CPD. It is highly important for librarians and offers a clear framework to illustrate and showcase your work. An ePortfolio shows a personal brand.

#CDGEportfolios
October 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Isabelle Courtney explores the difference between a LinkedIn Profile and an ePortfolio. #CDGEportfolios

Let's share the differences:
October 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Congratulations to the winners of the @libraryjobs.bsky.social raffle: Mohammad and Sarah!

Thanks a million to Libraryjobs.ie for raffling two tickets to our E-portfolio Power workshop tomorrow.

Don't forget to subscribe to the Libraryjobs.ie mailing list and follow them @libraryjobs.bsky.social
Congratulations to Mohammad and Sarah for winning free tickets from Libraryjobs.ie for our E-portfolio Power workshop! Thanks a million to Libraryjobs.ie for raffling two tickets. Don't forget to subscribe to the Libraryjobs.ie mailing list and follow them on social media!
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Our E-Portfolio Power workshop is now sold out!

We're excited to hear from our expert speakers Isabelle Courtney and Robert Alfis tomorrow.

Isabelle specialises in CPD, workplace learning, and accreditation. Robert is the Library Development Officer at Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)
Isabelle Courtney is a librarian & information professional, she specialises in Continuing Professional Development, workplace learning, and accreditation. She previously lectured on the Library Masters Programme at Dublin Business School and is now a training advisor and accreditation assessor with The Menopause Hub, where she leads initiatives to embed CPD accredited courses into workplace learning. Her work bridges the worlds of librarianship, education, and workplace learning, offering a unique perspective on how ePortfolios can support and evidence professional development. Participants at this event will benefit from her knowledge of CPD frameworks and her passion for empowering professionals to take ownership of their learning journeys. Robert Alfis is the Library Development Officer at Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), which provides library access to the Irish Further Education and Training (FET). His role involves creating and developing subject guides and content for the ETBI FET Digital Library website as well as supporting the development of the scholarly open access FET journal and EOLAS, the FET sectoral repository. Robert previously worked in the libraries of DBS, Dundalk Institute of Technology, and the National College of Ireland (NCI). While in DBS he worked as research librarian, supporting faculty with their research, managing the DBS institutional repository, eSource, and was managing editor of DBS Business Review. He also lectured on the DBS MSc in Information and Library Management, where he taught on the Information Organisation module and provided guest lectures on the topic of ePortfolios.
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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📢 Announcing 2 Tickets to be raffled by Libraryjobs.ie on 10 October!

We are delighted that Libraryjobs.ie has offered this amazing chance!

Email info@libraryjobs.ie to enter before 10 Oct., open to all!
October 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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📢 Registration is open for our next event!

E-Portfolio Power: An Online Workshop for LIS Professionals. Join Isabelle Courtney and Robert Alfis in this webinar to explore the power of ePortfolios

📅 Tuesday, October 14th 6:30 to 8 PM
🎟️ €15, students/unwaged €10

🔗 www.eventbrite.ie/e/e-portfoli...
September 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Three vacancies in TCD Library
1️⃣ Open Access Librarian (full time, temp). Closing date June 24 at noon
2️⃣ Project Archivist (Arabic & Islamic Manuscripts). Closing date July 4 at noon
3️⃣ Subject Librarian (part time, temp). Closing Date June 24 at noon

More info: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

#LISjobsIE
3 current vacancies in Trinity College Dublin Library: open access librarian, project archivist (Arabic & Islamic manuscripts) and a subject librarian for faculty of health sciences and faculty of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Marta's final wrap up. Walk away with these overall ideas. Your enthusiasm matters. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Titles Matter - is your title good for more than just the proposal? Does it fit websites, posters, and so on? Marta shares tips. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Don't work at grants backwards. Create a project - then find a funding call. Align with the theme and don't be afraid to reach out to the people behind the funding call to ask if your project fits. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Did you forget to read something? 🤔 Marta makes a very good point that sometimes there's a part of the instructions in a grant instructions that you might have missed. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Great advice from Marta to start out. Things to consider for grant writing. You have many moving components that you have to keep track of.
#CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Some final thoughts from Martin: you DO have something to say, your writing will help others and don’t be afraid to start now!! #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Key advice from Martin. Your everyday is someone else’s mystery. Take something that seems ordinary to you and write about it! You’ll never know who might find it interesting. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Martin provides some useful prompts that might be helpful for those who want to blog, but don’t know what to write. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Martin takes a closer look at some platforms that LIS professionals can use for blogging. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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There are so many reasons to blog. Blogging can amplify your work, create new connections and foster your professional reputation. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Martin takes a closer look at what a blog really is. It’s a piece of writing, approx 300-700 words in length, that is lightly edited and clearly showcases your voice. Blogs are a great way to show your work to the world and to highlight the work that you do. #CDGASLWriting2025
May 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Starting soon! Our sold out joint event with @aslibraries.bsky.social: Writing Skills for LIS Professionals with @martinoconnor.bsky.social and Marta Bustillo. Hashtag for tonight is #CDGASLWriting2025
Writing skills for LIS Professionals: blogs, bursaries, journals and more is an online event between the Career Development Group and the Academic and Special Libraries Section of the Library Association of Ireland. The event will take place on May 20th at 6:30pm, online via Zoom.
May 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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It's lovely to have two amazing guest speakers, Marta Bustillo and Martin O'Connor.
Writing Skills for LIS Professionals, our next event with @aslibraries.bsky.social, promises to be an amazing chance to get tips from these two wonderful professionals.
April 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM