Librarians Aloud - Episode 012 - Dr Sandra Collins

Librarians Aloud

In this episode Laura Rooney Ferris talks to Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland. Sandra traces her career path from her PhD in Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics at UCD school of Mathematics through academia and research to Science Foundation Ireland and on to her role as the founding Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland before joining the National Library. She talks about the current work of the National Library working to blend and expand physical and digital collections and to act as the national memory keepers. The talk covers; emerging skill sets and roles for information professionals in managing digital content, the challenge of preserving digital content and why we need to preserve our digital memories. Links from this episode: National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/ National Library Web Archive http://collection.europarchive.org/nli/ Dr Sandra Collins TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mbHb5wqKo Digital Repository of Ireland http://dri.ie/ Internet Archive https://archive.org/index.php