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In association with colleagues from the University of Sheffield, and the University of Nottingham (a Universitas21 partner of UCD) SILS was pleased to host the 8th Biennial Interdisciplinary ALCS Conference (Association of Low Countries Studies, United Kingdom and Ireland) 6-7 January 2010.
Professor Mary Burke’s article, The semantic web and the digital library, was recently ranked in the Top Twenty of the Aslib proceedings. The article URL is at www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00012530910959844
Dr Claire McGuinness has signed a contract with Chandos Publishing to write a book, provisionally titled "Becoming confident teachers: A guide for academic librarians", which will be available in 2011.
Congratulations are due to Declan Tuite, currently taking his PhD at SILS, for his nomination to the Judging Panel of the Irish eGovernment Awards 2010.