Monaghan County Libraries and Europe Direct Clones are launching a new Arcade Game Design and Coding Club. This will support students’ introduction to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths whilst having loads of fun learning how to build arcade games through the use of Microsoft Coding applications such as Microsoft Arcade and Minecraft. Students will understand how computer games are created through the use of different coding languages. Students will experiment with coding languages and use their own imagination to build creative games.
Classes will take place Online on Tuesday evenings for ages 7-9 and Thursday evenings for ages 10-14

To register your interest please email libraryactivities@monaghancoco.ie

This initiative is funded by EU Direct Clones to celebrate European Year of Youth

#DigitalDecade #EYY2022

Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity, and the arts. This year, it will take place on Friday 23rd September. From 4pm onwards, cultural venues across county Monaghan will stay open for everyone to come enjoy the unique experience of Culture Night, a free night of fun, entertainment, and discovery. Monaghan has a vibrant rich cultural community, and this is a great opportunity to sample the area’s cultural and creative offerings for free throughout the evening. We are delighted to have so many organisations involved again this year and we hope you enjoy exploring the rich cultural landscape of County Monaghan. From outdoor films to music spectacles, various arts, and crafts workshops to drop in and see artists at their work, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
All events are free to access but remember booking maybe required.

View or download the complete programme now:

Throughout the Summer months, Monaghan County Library Service have travelled across the county to speak to young book lovers about their favourite stories. Podcast guests ranged from aged 3 to 17 years old but all shared the same passion for reading.  You’ll recognise some familiar titles like Harry Potter and Diary of a wimpy Kid but these young readers had lots of other wonderful recommendations from new and exciting authors too. You’ll find all episodes now on Spotify.

Cruinniú na Óg 2022

Saturday 11^th June

Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme, a Creative Youth plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people.  For 2022, we are joining forces again with our colleagues in Cavan County Council and Local Arts in Education Partnership to deliver a diverse  programme of activities for children and young people to engage in.

You can view the full programme of events at Cavan Monaghan Cruinniu 2022

Culture Night Monaghan – Call for Submissions 2022

Connect Through Culture/ Le Chéile Trí Chultúr

Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and takes place on the 3rd Friday of September. From 5pm onwards, cultural venues across the country stay open for everyone to come enjoy the unique experience of Culture Night, a free night of fun, entertainment and discovery.

Culture Night will take place on Friday 23^rd September 2022.

Monaghan County Council is seeking expressions of interest from Monaghan based creative practitioners, not-for-profit organisations, local community groups, arts, heritage and cultural groups, venues, and societies for Culture Night 2022. Applications by individuals must be in partnership with a community, cultural or heritage group. Assistance shall not be given in respect of commercial activities.

Projects/events should reflect this year’s theme of ‘Come Together Again’  see www.culturenight.ie for more details.

For application form please email culturenight@monaghancoco.ie

Closing date is Monday 20^th June at 5pm

Eduroam is a federated service that allows roaming research and educational users to more easily obtain Internet access via the WiFi service at participating sites. When attaching to eduroam WiFi users are authenticated via their home site. If authentication succeeds the user is granted wireless network access.

The following are the details of eduroam WiFi offered at Monaghan Libraries:
•Wireless network name (SSID): eduroam
•Encryption levels supported: AES
•Port/Protocol restrictions? : Yes
•Transparent proxying of your traffic? : No
•Network Address Translation (NAT) of wireless device address? : Yes
•IPv6 support? : No

Note that authentication problems should be addressed to the support staff at your home site, as the security mechanisms within eduroam mean that much of the detail of the authentication step is not visible to the support staff at visited sites.

6th Class primary School

 

Junior Cycle Competition

 

Your online library system is changing – for the better!

From March 29th, Monaghan along with libraries all over the country, will introduce a new online library system with improved functionality to help us provide a better service to library members.

The new system will have many improved features.

• Logging into your library account, and managing your reserves, reading lists and contact information will be much easier.
• The catalogue will be easier to use and will have images and recommendations as well as themed bookshelves and links to useful resources.
• You will be able to find, borrow and reserve eBooks and eAudiobooks as well as physical books in one searchable catalogue.
• You will be able to renew your library membership online for the first time.
• Our new system will also look and work great on mobile phones and tablets.

Online accounts temporarily unavailable March 21^st – 28^th

Unfortunately, there will be some service disruption in the lead up to the launch of the new system.

From March 21^st – 28^th, your online account will be temporarily unavailable and you will not be able to reserve items online.

During this time, you will still be able to browse and borrow in your library and other library services, including eServices such as Borrowbox, Libby and PressReader will not be affected.

All loans will be extended so you don’t need to worry about renewing items while your account is unavailable.

We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we work to deliver the new and improved online experience.

Please keep an eye on our website and social media channels for further updates.

Monaghan County Council invites applications for a Storyteller in Residence, under the Creative Ireland Monaghan programme.  The residency runs for the period May 2022 to May 2023  and will be managed by Monaghan County Council Library Service.

The overall aim of the residency is to establish a ‘Drumlin Yarnspinners Club’ and empower members with the confidence and skills to keep the Club running after the residency ceases. 

The residency is open to experienced Storytellers in any genre who are skilled in group facilitation.

Full details of the post can be obtained from Karen Mc Cague by emailing kmccague@monaghancoco.ie