Library News
Daniel Florence O'Leary Memoirs presented to Cork City Libraries
H. E. Dr Samuel Moncada, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, presented a complete set (34 volumes) of the memoirs of General Daniel Florence O’Leary to Cork City Libraries on 13 May 2010. Dr Moncada was in Cork to officiate at a number of events commemorating O’Leary who was born in Barrack Street in the city in 1801, and who was a close aide to Simon Bolivar in the liberation of Venezuela, Bolivia and Equador from Spanish rule. The set of memoirs will be available for consultation in the Reference Library, Grand Parade.
Photo shows Dr Moncada accepting a reciprocal gift of books on Cork from City Librarian Liam Ronayne. Also present are members of the Daniel Florence O’Leary Association, including Michael O’Leary (front left), great grandson of a first cousin of Daniel Florence O’Leary.
Music Library wins International Award
The Rory Gallagher Music Library has won an Excellence Award for Music Libraries, covering music libraries in the UK and Ireland. This is the first year that these awards have been run, organized by IAML – the International Association of Music Libraries. The judging panel felt that Cork City Libraries was a good example of a service at the centre of its community, building on local connections and taking a full part in local festivals. Attention was drawn to the library’s broad spectrum of users including those with physical and learning disabilities, the development of the Cork Music Archive, its participation in a number of partnerships within Ireland, its programme of musical events – recitals, lectures exhibitions and launches – and to its role as an important meeting place for the musical community of Cork.
This new biennial award scheme aims to acknowledge ‘outstanding music services to the library’s user community’, and to ‘highlight and celebrate activity in music libraries showing sustained good work and good practice which has the potential to be adopted and adapted by others’. The Award is presented every two years and is open to all music libraries no matter what their sector, size or type. This year’s nominations were assessed by an international panel of experts chaired by the distinguished musicologist John Tyrrell. The panel included music librarians from various sectors, professional musicians, and leading figures from the wider library profession.
Opening of Blackpool and Douglas Libraries
The new libraries in Blackpool and Douglas were officially opened by Lord Mayor Dara Murphy on Friday, 30 April 2010.
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| Cutting the ribbon in Blackpool | Storytelling session at official opening in Douglas |
Aloys Fleischmann
Cork City Libraries celebrated the life of Aloys Fleischmann Jnr. at the Central Library, Grand Parade, Cork
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 at 7.00 pm
• Opening of exhibition “Fleischmann, Family, & Friends”
• Launch of book The Fleischmanns: A Remarkable Cork Family – A Companion to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebration published by Cork City Libraries 2010
• Launch of The Fleischmann Centenary Programme Brochure : published by Cork City Council Fleischmann Working Group.
Keynote address by Emeritus Professor John A. Murphy.
The 52-page book includes well illustrated biographies on Tilly, Aloys Snr and Professor Aloys Fleischmann with many rare photographs. Text by Séamas de Barra, Ruth Fleischmann, and Patrick Zuk. The book is for sale for €10.
The exhibition tells the story of Prof Aloys Fleischmann - his childhood, his parents Tilly & Aloys, his career in UCC and in the city and is illustrated with photographs and other images. Digital selections of his letters, diaries, photographs, Dachau paintings, recordings and manuscript scores will be available for viewing.
The exhibition will remain in the Central Library until April 2010 and then tour other libraries and venues in Cork and around the country.
The Fleischmann Centenary Programme Brochure
Aloys Fleischmann is without doubt one of the most important figures in music in Ireland in the last century and to mark his centenary celebration a host of concerts, recitals, exhibitions, dance performances, public lectures, conferences and special tributes are taking place in Ireland, Germany, England, America and China throughout 2010.
All Welcome
Increase in Library Charges
| At its budget meeting on 15 December 2008, Cork City Council revised charges for library use as follows: Children, state pensioners, persons on disability pension & dependent spouses, students up to 18 in full-time education, persons in receipt of carer’s allowance Unemployed persons & dependent spouses, lone parents, asylum seekers, students over 18 Adult members of Rory Gallagher Music Library These revised charges & fines take effect from 1 January 2009 |