LEADING THE WAY TO LITERACY: Public Libraries Empowering their Communities Library Association of Ireland Public Libraries' Section Conference ...

Library Association of Ireland Public Libraries’ Section Conference
                               2018

   LEADING THE WAY TO LITERACY:
Public Libraries Empowering their Communities

     MOUNT WOLSELEY HOTEL, SPA AND GOLF RESORT
               TULLOW, CO. CARLOW
                  7-9 NOVEMBER

WELCOME
Philip Cohen
President of the Library Association of Ireland

PROGRAMME
Wednesday, November 7th

  5:00 - 7:00pm           Registration
  8:00pm                  Official Opening of Conference
  8:20pm                  Dinner followed by Table Quiz

Thursday, November 8th

  9:00 - 9:10am           Official Opening of Trade Exhibition
  9:10am                  Making Space for Reading with Rachel Van Riel
  9:45am - 10:00am        Lightening Sessions:
  10:00am - 10:40am       Letting Children take the Lead: Philosophy for Children in
                          the Library with Lucy Elvis & Annie McKeown O’Donovan
                          from CURO (formerly Galway P4C)
  10:45am - 11:00am       Lightening Sessions
  11:00am - 11:30am       Coffee/Tea Break
  11:30am - 12:15pm       Presentation of 3 short-listed projects for LAI Project Prize
  12:15pm - 1:00pm        Workshop Sessions
                               Option (i) - facilitated by Rachel Van Riel
                               Option (ii) - Undercover- big questions in books
                              facilitated by CURO
  1:00pm                  Lunch
  2:00pm - 5:00pm         Depart for Afternoon Carlow Cultural Experience
                              Option (i) - VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art and
                              George Bernard Shaw Theatre
                               Option (ii) - Carlow County Museum
                               Visit to Walsh’s Whiskey Distillery, Royal Oak,
                               Bagenalstown.
  7:30pm                  Pre-Dinner Drinks Reception

8:00pm                 Gala Conference Dinner followed by announcement of LAI
                       Project Prize Winner 2018 and after-dinner speaker, author
                       and performer Peter Murphy, Carlow Writer-in-Residence.

Friday, November 9th

  9:30am - 10:15am     Our Public Libraries 2022 with Mary Stuart, Libraries
                       Development Unit
  10:15am - 11:00am    Literacy and the Power of Writing with Sinéad Moriarty
  11:00am - 11:30am    Coffee/Tea Break
  11:30am - 12:00pm    Report on LAI Project Prize Winner 2017 from Laois County
                       Libraries
  12:00pm - 1:00pm     My Life in Books Panel with Peter Murphy, Catríona Crowe
                       and Manchán Magan. Chaired by Eddie O’Sullivan.

BIOGRAPHIES
                     ANNIE MCKEOWN O’DONOVAN

Annie McKeown O’Donovan is a PhD student in the Philosophy
department in NUI Galway, funded by a Galway Doctoral Research
Scholarship. She has studied at NUI Galway (BA in Philosophy and
Psychological Studies, MA in Philosophy: Ethics, Culture and Global
Change) and in University College Dublin (MsC in Equality Studies). She
has broad interests in areas of applied philosophy (bioethics, political
philosophy), and on the use of philosophy to make a practical positive change in society.
Annie is a Philosophy for Children (P4C) Level 1 facilitator (SAPERE-approved).

                                    LUCY ELVIS

Lucy Elvis is a PhD student in the Philosophy department in NUI Galway,
funded by a Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship. She has studied at
Lunds Universitet, Sweden (MA in Visual Culture) and Leicester
University, UK (BA in Art History and Politics.) She has also worked as a
visual art curator and producer, director of 126 Gallery Galway, and is a
board member of TULCA Festival of Visual Art. She is interested in the
intersection of philosophy and culture (aesthetics) and in fostering
philosophy outside the institution. She is a member of the Philosophy Ireland steering
group. Lucy is a Philosophy for Children (P4C) Level 1 facilitator (SAPERE-approved) and
has completed a residential summer school at the IAPC (Institute for the Advancement of
Philosophy for Children.) She also participated in the PDST (Professional Development
Service for Teachers) P4C ‘Train the Trainer’ pilot.

                               RACHEL VAN RIEL

Rachel Van Riel founded Opening the Book in 1991 after discovering libraries offered the
best possible context for the work she wished to do. Sometimes challenging as a ‘critical

friend’ to libraries, Rachel is a passionate advocate for libraries in the wider
cultural and educational sector. Rachel introduced the concept of reader
development which has changed the way public libraries engage with
their customers. Starting from the reader has led Opening the Book into
developing training, promotions, collections policy, websites, library
furniture and complete new library designs. Rachel has taken reader-
centred ideas to European countries from Norway to Hungary and also to
North America and Australia.

                                SINÉAD MORIARTY

Sinéad was born and raised in Dublin where she grew up surrounded by
books. She has published 13 novels with Penguin Random House. Her latest
novel ‘Our Secrets and Lies’ has just been released. Sinéad writes a weekly
column for the Irish independent and is the ambassador for the Eason’s
‘Sinéad and Rick’s Must Read’ book club. Find out more about Sinéad at
www.sineadmoriarty.com

                                CATRÍONA CROWE

Catríona Crowe is the former Head of Special Projects at the National
Archives of Ireland. She contributes regularly to broadcast and print
media on cultural and historical matters. She has honorary doctorates
from Maynooth University, Limerick University and University College
Dublin, and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

                                MANCHÁN MAGAN

Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary maker. He has written
numerous travel books in Irish and English. His travel documentaries
focusing on issues of world culture have been shown in 25 territories
around the world, an No Béarla, his documentary series on travelling
around Ireland speaking only Irish sparked international debate.

PETER MURPHY

Peter Murphy is a novelist, spoken-word performer, journalist
and occasional actor. He is the author of two novels, John the
Revelator (2009) and Shall We Gather at the River (2013),
published by Faber & Faber in Ireland and the UK, and by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US and Canada. His fiction has
been translated and published in Italy, France, the Czech
Republic, Holland, Germany, Serbia, Romania and the Commonwealth countries, and
nominated for the Costa, the Kerry Group Fiction Prize and the IMPAC.

Peter’s journalism and non-fiction has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, the Irish
Times, Hot Press and Huffington Post. He has released two spoken word/music albums with
the Revelator Orchestra, The Sounds of John the Revelator and The Brotherhood of the
Flood. For ten years he was a regular panellist on RTE’s arts review show The View with
John Kelly, and was also a presenter on RTE’s The Works. He performs live under the name
Cursed Murphy, and his first single, ‘Foxhole Prayer’ will be released at the end of
September. He is currently writing his third book, a collection of short stories.