VALENTINE TIPS FROM THE LIBRARY

Follow our steps to the perfect Valentines:
1. Impress greatly by making a thoughtful gift using our beautiful selection of “artist books” as inspiration (on display in LSAD Library)
2. Borrow from our fabulous and extensive range of cookery books and cook up a delicious meal (shelf number 641.5 LIT Library)
3.Curl up with a fantastic DVD from our eclectic collection, we have romantic classics, crazy horrors (in case you need some clinch power!), beautiful foreign language movies and many more (ask for our list at the desk).

CALLING ALL MOVIE BUFFS!

LSAD Library is delighted with their recent acquisition of the “Masters of Cinema” series. Each book comes with a detailed chronology with the director’s early works, education, film shoots and awards noted and there is a filmography in each, with amateur, short and feature films as well as collaborations included. Find out all you ever needed to know about the movies of David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorcese, Hitchcock and Kubrick….SWOON!

DATABASE TRIAL .....SO GET CLICKING!

CRCnetBASE database is now available on a trial basis until 28 February, 2011.

CRCnetBASE is made up of over 6000 online books (full text handbooks, references, and monographs) that span more than 40 disciplines. In addition to e-books published under the imprint CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall. The powerful research platform has been adopted throughout the world at academic and corporate institutions.

The subject collections in CRCnetBASE cover a wide range of disciplines, including Information Security, Public Administration, Occupational Health & Safety, and Project Management.

The trial can be accessed via: http://www.crcnetbase.com/

To login, please use the following:

id: limerick
password: limtrial

Your feedback is welcome. Please email Monika Bukowska at Monika.Bukowska@lit.ie

MARK YOUR DIARY FOR OUR SATURDAY OPENINGS...

Moylish Library- 11 Saturdays

Sat February 19th 2011

Sat February 26th 2011

Sat March 5th 2011

Sat March 12th 2011

Sat March 19th 2011

Sat March 26th 2011

Sat April 2nd 2011

Sat April 9th 2011

Sat April 16th 2011

Sat May 7th 2011

Sat May 14th 2011



Clare Street Library- 11 Saturdays
Sat January 29th 2011

Sat February 12th 2011

Sat February 19th 2011

Sat February 26th 2011

Sat March 5th 2011

Sat March 12th 2011

Sat March 26th 2011

Sat April 2nd 2011

Sat April 9th 2011

Sat May 7th 2011

Sat May 14th 2011

THE WIRE-new journal in LSAD Library

THE WIRE-Adventures in Modern Music, is now arriving to LSAD library, we began our subscription with this January 2011 Issue:
On The Cover: The Wire’s essential review of the year’s best music, including the Top 50 Records of the Year, writers’ and musicians’ reflections, and essays on 2010’s key developments. Plus: Giuseppe Ielasi, Electronic Voice Phenomena, Scanner's Invisible Jukebox, Peter Christopherson, Lichens, Pat Maherr and much more

WHOPEEEE.......WE'RE OPEN SATURDAYS

LIT Library is glad to announce that both Clare St. Library and Moylish Library will open Saturday December 4th & 11th 2010.

Opening times are :
9.30a.m. – 1.15p.m. – Full issue desk service
1.15p.m. – 5.00p.m. – Reading room service

OXFORD DICTIONARIES ONLINE

The Library is pleased to announce that free trial access for the Limerick Institute of Technology has now been activated for the following Oxford Online resources:

· Oxford Dictionaries Online - an innovative new modern English dictionary and language reference service.

Oxford Dictionaries Online gives you instant access to more than 350,000 definitions and 600,000 synonyms and antonyms, a vast bank of linked example sentences, and detailed writing, grammar and spelling guidance.

· Oxford Scholarship Online - Business & Management module.

Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of over 4,000 of the very best scholarly Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion and Social Work.

· Oxford Handbooks Online - Business & Management module.

Oxford Handbooks Online is a cross-searchable reference offering full text of over 2,000 essays from the prestigious Oxford Handbooks collection.

To access Oxford Online resources go to the library homepage http://mislibsrv.lit.ie
Please choose On-line resources → Database trials from the menu and follow the instructions for access.