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.

WHAT A NOVEL IDEA………..

Well, it happened like this, a very sweet girl came into the LSAD library and donated some novels, she said she had read them all and would like to give them to us as she noted that each one had a story line connected to Art (“The Immaculate Deception” by Iain Pears, “Theft” by Peter Carey, “Headlong; A novel” by Michael Frayn.) Well, with that we began a verbal challenge amongst each other- “name a novel about art” (who said Librarians were nerds!) and the competition has now become very, very competitive! We came up with quite a few, for example: ”The girl with the pearl earring” by Tracy Chevalier, “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown, “Cat’s Eye” by Margaret Atwood, ”An Artist of the floating world” by Ishiguro Kazuo... So, come on, give it a go and if you come up with any do let us know….

Nexis UK and Lexis Library Database Training

Hi All,
there will be training sessions on "Nexis UK" and "Lexis Library" in the Library Computer Room in Moylish on the 2nd and 3rd of November.
Nexis UK- the world's largest and most trusted collection of news, company, people, industry, regulatory and legal content taken from 35,000 sources from 1975 to present day, covering all the world's major and emerging markets
Lexix Library-previously known as LexixNexis Butterworths. lawyers and Information Professionals can quickly find up-to-date information, resources and expert opinion from established names such as Butterworths, Tolley and Halsbury's.
Training times
10 a.m, 2p.m. and 3p.m. on Tuesday 2nd November (Nexix UK hands on session)
10a.m. Wednesday 3rd November (Lexis Library hands on session)

ALL WELCOME

WELCOME BACK

Hi All, we're delighted to have you all back, It's been a lonely 'ol Summer without the vast majority of our students and patrons.

However in your absence we have spring cleaned and bought, bought, bought! We have fantastic new book stocks in both campus libraries (check out "new books" on our homepage), a seriously amazing new DVD collection (10 new Stanley Kubricks, 7-49 Up, Fellini's 8 1/2 weeks, Musica Futurista-art of noises, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection 1973-1982, anthology of noise and electronic music.....the list goes on and on) and many new journals (show Details Paris, Show Details World and Show Details Men, to name a few).

This Summer we also said farewell to a treasured Library staff member Margaret MacMahon, a very special Lady who retired this August and who will be missed terribly by all of us. We had an old shindig to wish her the very best, and above are a few photos.

DAMIAN DALY…. WE GET THE LOW DOWN FROM LSADS’ CUTEST TECHNICIAN….

What was your favourite childhood book? Anne and Barry of course, some of the best reading of my life, put me where I am today !! What books had the most influence on you in your college days? Was big into “The Lord of the Rings” collection, including the less read “The Hobbit” which was the prelude to Lord of the Rings Do you have any memory or story about your college library? University of Limerick’s library wasn’t as good as LSAD’s library, so nothing good enough to talk about, staff here are brilliant!! (we like this answer) If you were stranded on a desert Island what book would you like to have with you? Pirates of the Carribbean Bookset, so I could understand the lingo when hanging out with the ‘One eyed Patchies’ :P