#otd 1742, the first performance of Handel's #Messiah took place in Fishamble Street in Dublin. This is the opening of the Hallelujah chorus from our manuscript, copied in the 1760s & full of intriguing details on contemporary performance!

Ryan Reynolds celebrates ‘ride of our lives’ as Wrexham seal promotion buff.ly/3Ug6gWE

the Irish Poetry and Virtual Reading Room Project Manager will lead the Rose Library’s initiative to explore the viability of establishing a virtual reading room to share the Rose Library’s Irish poetry collections more effectively with users in Ireland. buff.ly/44G5nsn

Sir Roly Keating to step down as Chief Executive of the British Library in April 2025 buff.ly/3UdnLqE

Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’ buff.ly/3PWBvnd

A major beneficial impact on Columbus > Library CEO Patrick Losinski announces his retirement - Columbus Metropolitan Library buff.ly/3VOj4VD

Louis Coiffait-Gunn to join CILIP as CEO next month.

The CILIP Board has appointed Louis Coiffait-Gunn as the charity's new CEO, and Louis will be starting in the new role on Wednesday 8th May 2024.

Read more about the appointment:
cilip.org.uk/news/669263/CI…

#WeAreCILIP

This is incredible.

From Jamie Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

Interesting. i wonder how common this actually is.

Fascinating > A New Chapter for Irish Historians’ ‘Saddest Book’.
A globe-spanning research project has turned the catalog of a public archive destroyed in Ireland’s civil war into a model for reconstruction. buff.ly/3U24uIx

While June is traditionally designated as #PrideMonth in the United States (and many other countries), universities have started to celebrate and recognize the #LGBTQIA + community in April, when the full student body is on campus. 📚 Book display here: bit.ly/3TG0nRd

Q&A: UW researcher discusses the vital role of Indigenous librarians buff.ly/3xm2ceI

[Read] Searching for Meaning Rather Than Keywords and Returning Answers Rather Than Links - interesting experiment by TROVE on 45,494 news articles using modern semantic/embedding vector search. journal.code4lib.org/articles/17443 - live demo nla-overproof.projectcomputing.com/knnBlend(1)

Some words on being a librarian by Philip Larkin > Larkin, work and libraries buff.ly/3TWZjcV

'We are excited to share the creation of an AI-driven metadata generator that has already been able to enrich Alma Community Zone Bibliographic records.' Current enrichment focuses on MARC fields:Language(041, 008),Summary(520)
LC subject headings(650) exlibrisgroup.com/blog/artificia…

A difficult decision no doubt, but good to see responsible approach. I hope that any arrangement gives security to staff also.

Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library.
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections. buff.ly/49koUAV

Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google buff.ly/3IUa6yn

Financial Times tests an AI chatbot trained on decades of its own articles buff.ly/3TO9FvC

Great visit to The Library of Trinity College Dublin with conul colleagues to see the work ongoing in the beautiful Long Room and the new The Book of Kells Experience exhibition, thanks to Trinity College Dublin Librarian Helen Shenton