
Stuart Hamilton
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Head of Libraries Development @LGMAIreland. President @NAPLEforum. All things info, funk and soul. Tweets my own, not my employer's!
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Adrienne Bernhard As Stewart Brand wrote in 01999, "digital storage is easy; digital preservation is not." To save ourselves from a digital dark age, we need to practice long-term thinking with the vast amounts of information we produce online. longnow.org/ideas/escaping…

Adrienne Bernhard Stewart Brand Staving off a Digital Dark Age requires foresight to prevent: - Link rot, where the connections between sites become unusable - Institutional decay, where information becomes stranded on the hard drives of defunct organizations - File format drift, which can leave data unreadable



For the first time since the agreement of the 2030 Agenda, we were able to bring colleagues from all 6 world regions to the United Nations #hlpf! Find out about how they advocated for #libraries, information and culture with key national and international contacts! bit.ly/3qjOq9f


Fantastic to see our Libraries Ireland Local Government Management Agency new national public library strategy called out here at #wlic2023! Grab a pdf copy if you want to #takeacloserlook: gov.ie/pdf/?file=http…


Publishing practices are making ebooks unaffordable, unsustainable, & inaccessible to libraries. We were delighted to work with the Library Association taskforce on ebooks & Trinity College Dublin Students' Union 🌈🇵🇸 on this pre-budget submission. #ebooksos @Hohoyanna Cathal McCauley Stuart Hamilton @dunnesiobhan Union of Students in Ireland @kr21org





Contains spot on points from President of Ireland irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…


Why are librarians up in arms over ebooks? Lack of available stock, high prices & onerous terms & conditions mean ebooks currently offer poor value for readers & libraries. By Cathal McCauley @library_mu Maynooth University Martin Bradley & Stuart Hamilton Local Government Management Agency rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

We’re recruiting for the libraries team Local Government Management Agency here in Dublin. Come join us! We need an Executive Librarian to look after infrastructure and digital transformation in the Irish public library sector. Super interesting work! See here for details: lgma.ie/en/about-us/wo…