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CCSL wrote: »

Change it to this and it should be ok

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Great Idea to start this on boards! best of Luck -

Link now amended above, thanks for the heads up.

Every year Limerick City Library hosts a series of history lectures during the Autumn, Winter and Spring months. This began in 1998 and to date there have been almost 100 lectures given in the series. Subjects covered are varied, usually though not always of a local nature, including architecture, political history, music, sport, industrial history, biographical studies of notable local people, etc.

Next lecture :

"The Civil War in Limerick, 1922",an illustrated lecture by Pádraic Óg Ó Ruairc, Tuesday 18th January 2011 @ 8pm

Limerick City Library, The Granary, Michael Street. All welcome. Admission free

For more info on Padraig his bio is here http://www.mercierpress.ie/padraigogoruairc

3 branches of our Library Service will be hosting computer classes in the coming weeks - If you know of anyone who would like to take part in these classes, tell them to contact their library for details.



Over a period of 6 weeks theses classes will have learnt the following;

- The Fundamentals of a Computer
- How to use a keyboard and mouse
- How to browse the Internet
- How to use Search Engines (Google)
- How to set up and use an Email Account
- How to use E-Commerce Websites (Ryanair, Amazon)

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The Updated Register of Electors is available to check in all Limerick City Library branches.
Alternatively you can check your name using this website

*Important Notice*
The City Library @ the Granary will not Open until 10.30am on Monday the 7th of February.
This is to facilitate staff training.

Apologies for any inconvenience

slyph wrote: »

Where is this place ?

My knowlegde of limerick is basically getting on/off the UL bus at William street.

Is it far from william street?

It's a 5 minute walk. I've created a Street Map for all four of our branches in the city, click here to view it.

The one you are looking for is the Central Branch in the Granary Building on Michael Street. (same building as the Trinity Rooms Nightclub)

*Notice* Story time will not be on Saturday 19th of February. It will resume again the following Saturday.

Library Ireland Week - Events @ Limerick City Library



Venue: Granary Library

Tue. 8th March at 11.00am - Inter-Schools Quiz for 1st Year Secondary School Students from Limerick City & County

Wed. 9th March at 8.00pm - 'A Guided Tour of the History Resources on the Limerick City Council Website' presented by Mike Maguire, Local Studies Department of Limerick City Library, Jacqui Hayes, Limerick City Archivist & Brian Hodkinson, Acting Curator, Limerick City Museum (The Jim Kemmy Municipal Museum)

Thu. 10th March at 3.00pm - Prizegiving for annual Limerick City Library Literary Quiz competition.

UPDATE: Roisin Meaney will not be available this Saturday, March 19th for Storytime. Therefore Storytime will resume the following Saturday.

Launch of New Self Service System in Limerick City Library

Limerick City Library are delighted to announce the addition of a new self service system to it's main branch in the Granary Library, Michael Street.

Library members will now, if they wish, have the facility to check in and out their own books. The system, which is already successfully in use in many public libraries throughout the country, can be used in English, Irish, Polish and French.

The official launch was performed during "Library Ireland Week" by The Mayor, Councillor Maria Byrne, together with fourth class pupils from Gaelscoil Sairseal and their teacher Aoife. The children successfully used the new system to check their own books in and out on the day of the launch

The Mayor said she was delighted to launch this new system in addition to the many services already provided by the City Library and she felt sure that it would be welcomed by its many users.

According to A/City Librarian Deirdre O Dea, the launch of the self service system is part of the ongoing commitment by Limerick City Library to the development of services for its users.

As part of Latin America Week 2011, Limerick City Library are hosting a Public Talk with Richard Intriago and Carlos Gouveia Da Silva on Wednesday the 6th of April at 7.00pm

Admission is Free and all are Welcome


Richard Intriago is part of The Conference on Food Sovereignty. Made up of 8 members, it is an advisory body to the government and the highest authority on Food Sovereignty in Ecuador. He is also President of the Small Farmers Association of the Coast of Ecuador. Under Richard the Federation is very politically active, and was involved in the Constituent Assembly that wrote the Constitution. The Federation also provides training on organic techniques. Outside of his work with the Federation, Richard heads a group of university students that work to promote agroecology and Food Sovereignty. He has studied in Cuba, worked as an advisor to the government in Venezuela and with the MST in Brazil. He has organised conferences and forums on sustainable organic agriculture at a regional level.

Carlos Gouveia Da Silva, Brazil
Carlos is a member of the Associação dos Produtores Autônomos do Campo e da Cidade (Association of Rural and Urban Autonomous Producers), Rio de Janeiro, a grassroots organisation set up in the 1980´s by a workers' school of self-management. Its main aim is to create a solidarity link between agricultural workers in the city and countryside. Currently, APAC is involved in rural and urban food growing activists’ networks with an agroecological perspective. APAC is a member of the Agroecology Coordinating Organisation of Rio de Janeiro. This organisation brings together grassroots movements working for Food Sovereignty and struggling against the neoliberal policies of the Brazilian agribusiness, genetically modified crops, concentration of land, and the use of pesticides.

Limerick City Library will be closed on Friday the 22nd April to Monday the 25th of April, inclusive. The Library will re-open again on Tuesday the 26th April at 10am.

‎*Amazing new resource*
The National Jukebox of the Library of Congress (US)

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

As part of our commitment to improving our Local Studies Resources, we are currently creating a database of Obituaries from the Limerick Chronicle from the 19th Century. Library staff are doing this manually, and in the course of this work they have come across some highly interesting and curious entries! We will be posting some examples here for you to read...

So, how many members of the Forum actually use any of the Public Libraries in Limerick City? (For map see here http://tiny.cc/pb8wg)

If you are a member, please let us know what we could do to improve the service.

And if you don't use the Library, it would be very useful to hear your reason(s) for this.

All suggestions are welcome!


P.S. You are all aware that it's free to join right?

‎*New* Our Library Catalogue is now on our Facebook Page! If you look at the left hand menu you will see a link "Search Our Catalogue", click on this to search for a book without having to leave Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Limerick-City-Library/118155041572699