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The Oireachtas Library & Research Service

Contributing to a well informed parliament

Patricia Dowling Research Librarian June 2017

Library & Research Service

• Responsible for providing

information and research services to support the work of both Houses, Committees and individual Members in respect of their parliamentary duties

• Other functions include

FoI, Records Management & Documents Laid

Who we are – the staff of the L&RS

• 37 Staff –including 7 Librarians

and 21 researchers.

• Subject specialisms - law,

social science, economics, political science, environmental science, public administration, information management

• Backgrounds are diverse-

corporate, academic, professional & public sector experience

L&RS services

• Legislative Analysis Service (e.g. Bills Digests and Trackers)
• Research publications (Spotlights, L&RS Notes and Infographics)
• On demand research queries including article/book requests
• Research for Committees
• Information resources such as books and journals (some on

EU), online databases (e.g. Westlaw legal database which has info on EU case law) and docs laid

• Posts (sent by email) on hot topics e.g. Brexit, report releases
• Information skills training –full programme currently being

designed

• Media and news monitoring services (Factiva, Irish Times, FT)

Alerting Service

• Docs laid weekly listing

– Docs laid alert – links and context on new documents which have been laid before the Houses

• New Book Alerts

– Alerts sent out by email when a number of new items are added to our book catalogue

• Factiva Newspaper Monitoring

– daily alerts to your Inbox with today’s news on specific topics (e.g. alerts on a particular TD or Senator, EU news from Eur-Lex, EurActiv etc, FT’s Brussels briefing.)

• Topical posts

– Links to important and timely documents – when you need them – Subscribe (Via the L&RS page on the Plinth) to receive these alerts!

Future plans

• Information Skills

– An online survey is underway and has been circulated to all political staff – responses are due back tomorrow (2nd June) – This will help us better plan a training programme of courses/guides/seminars etc. with maximum benefit for staff

• Private Member Bills

– We are looking at how we can best help Members and their staff with PMBs

Our Page on the Plinth

Contact Details

L&RS Central Enquiry Desk library.and.research@oireachtas.ie (01) 618-4701 Plinth page: http://library Oireachtas website public page: http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/about/libraryresearchservice/ #OireachtasLibrary