8pm evening opening starts in Castlebar on Monday 26th November: Mon - Thurs: 9.30am - 8.00pm Fri: 9.30am - 5.00pm

Weekend Opening Starts Friday in the Galway Campus

Dublin Rd. library is open weekends for the next 4 weekends from this Friday the 23rd November 2012.

Weekend Opening Hours:

Friday: 09:00 - 21:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 13:00
 

Conferrings

Well done & congratulations to all who are graduating this week

Fines Amnesty

There is a fines amnesty for Library Ireland Week until Friday 16th November in the Dublin Rd. & Cluain Mhuire Libraries.

Fines will be waived on items returned this week only.

GMIT’s 40th Anniversary - Nationwide

If you missed Monday’s Nationwide special celebrating GMIT’s 40th anniversary,
you can watch the programme online at:

http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2012/1105/nationwide.html

Library Ireland Week 2012 (12th - 16th November)

Library Ireland Week 2012 is the 7th year of Library Ireland Week  which celebrates and highlights the role of libraries, librarians and information professionals. Library Ireland Day will take place on the Wednesday 14th November. 

 

Lunchtime Lectures

Prehistoric Astronomy in Ireland - Mr Malachy Thompson

Date :  Monday 12th Nov   

Time :  1.00pm       

Venue :  Library Research Room

A Tale of Two Cities :  the proposal to colonise the city of Galway with residents from the city of Gloucester during the Cromwellian occupation 1652-1660 - Dr John Towler

Date :  Tuesday 13th Nov             

Time :  1.00pm                                                                               

Venue :  Library Research Room

                                                                                                                                                                   

Lunchtime Concert

Traditional Concert with Sean Moloney and friends featuring music from  Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn by Sean  Moloney, accompanied by Philip Doddy, fiddle and whistle, Caroline Locke, piano, and Irene Moloney, bodhrán and mandolin

Date :  Wednesday 14th Nov                  

Time : 1.10pm               

Venue :  Café Foyer

Exhibition

Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library 
                                                      

Date : 12th –  30th Nov                         

Time :  Library opening hours      

Venue :  Library, Galway Campus

For more information on Library Ireland Week 2012 go to:

http://www.libraryassociation.ie/events/library-ireland-week-2012